by Mary Kate Costello | Feb 21, 2017 | Community-led Development, Food Security, Gender, Hunger, Leadership, SDGs, Uncategorized
In keeping with The Hunger Project’s priority to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals through community-led development, advocacy for youth leadership and engagement has been at a forefront. The Hunger Project took a leading role in both the United Nation’s 6th...
by Erin East | Aug 11, 2016 | Activism, Human Rights, Uncategorized
In the 2014 book The Locust Effect, Gary Haugen makes the case that “common violence” impedes progress in international development. Haugen likens the cloud of locusts that swept over the middle of the United States in 1873, a force that devoured and decimated...
by Zyra Quirante | Nov 10, 2015 | Aid Effectiveness, Education, Health, Reports
This year’s State of the World’s Children Report has been published and it is calling for innovation. While it is a fact that remarkable progress has been done towards the protection and promotion of children’s rights, an unfortunate amount of children still exist...
by Tamene Adugna | Feb 3, 2014 | Food Security, Livelihoods, Reports, SDGs
Photo Credit: UN.ORG In 2000, leaders from 189 nations setup the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, to promote gender equality and empower women, to reduce child mortality, to improve...
by Tamene Adugna | Jan 29, 2014 | Activism, Aid Effectiveness, Governance, Meetings
A panel was held at the Center for American Progress (CAP) this morning on ending extreme poverty in conflict-affected contexts. Among the Panelists were Alex Thier, Assistant to the Administrator, USAID , Larry Attree, Head of Policy, Saferworld ,Nancy E. Lindborg,...
