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 Rayricus Matthews | Feb 25, 2016 | Community-led Development, Governance, Human Rights, Leadership
Jon-Andreas Solberg and Douglas Ragan co-authored a very enlightening post on UN-Habitat Youth covering five principles of youth-led development that are being utilized by youth programs globally and has begun to influence policy at the local, national and global...
by Mary Kate Costello | Dec 22, 2015 | Community-led Development, Leadership, Livelihoods, Meetings, SDGs
It is not new knowledge that half of the world’s population is made up of persons under the age of 35, the majority of whom are youth older than 15. As the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals near, the world will be responsible for achieving...
by Mary Kate Costello | Oct 22, 2015 | Community-led Development, Gender, Governance, Human Rights, Livelihoods, SDGs
“For us, then, to reach our twin goals, three things have to happen—inclusive economic growth, investment in human beings, and insurance against the risk that people could fall back into poverty. Grow, invest, and insure: that’s our shorthand for it…We...
