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Giving Tuesday!
Thanks to a generous supporter, every gift you make between now and Giving Tuesday on December 3 will be doubled, up to a total of… Read more
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Majority World Voice: How to Organise Inclusive Events
A guidance document from local actors on designing events on locally-led development, with local actors, by local actors, and for local actors. Since November 2023,… Read more
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Proposed Budget Cuts: Community-led Development at Risk
President Donald Trump released his first formal proposed budget to Congress on 16 March 2017. As promised, the “America First” budget is proposing $54 billion… Read more
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Let’s Stop Playing Catch Up: How Stronger Integration Helps Us Get Ahead of Threats
Achieving the SDG objective of universal coverage of WASH by 2030 will contribute to other important development goals, food security and public health in particular,… Read more
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Our “biggest frustrations” in building gender sensitive programs
Yesterday was International Women’s Day—a moment for intense reflection for development workers. Thinking hard about gender forces us to think hard about good development: when we… Read more
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Want to help women take more control? Help them tackle multiple problems at once
By Karina L. Weinstein, FXB As my colleague John Coonrod noted, women face an array of challenges which can’t be solved in isolation. If you… Read more
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Same recipe, different geography: Holistic approaches are smart for girls and women everywhere
By Tricia Petruney, FHI 360 Here’s a development scenario you’re probably familiar with: Imagine a young girl growing up in a remote rural area, raised… Read more
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Silos are Sexist
As Locus members, we are committed to integrated programming, but why? And why does it seem to be such an uphill struggle in a world… Read more
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Building a Different World of Work for Women and Girls
By Gregory Adams, Locus Women and girls provide much of the labor and talent that makes our communities work. But they routinely don’t get the… Read more