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Majority World Voice: How to organize convening spaces on LLD
Learn more about and join the commitment letter from majority world CBOs on convening spaces for LLD.
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April 6 IFPRI Event
One sea-change from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is Goal 16, which calls for participatory decision-making at all levels, including the community level where basic needs are met. The SDGs also call for integrated solutions – especially critical for nutrition, women’s economic empowerment and resilience – and this integration…
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Saemaul Undong – The Republic of Korea’s New Village Movement, part 2
Due to the successes the Saemaul Undong (SMU) Movement saw in the Republic of Korea (ROK) in the 1970s, the government of ROK began to expand their practices into Africa, Asia, and Latin America. ROK demonstrated unprecedented growth, introducing what the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim described as “an economic and social revolution…
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Saemaul Undong – the Republic of Korea’s New Village Movement, part 1
Before 1960 the Republic of Korea (ROK) was a war-torn nation with a GDP per capita of $70 – equivalent to that of Ghana.1 The government was weak, and did not have the financial capabilities to invest in large-scale rural development projects.2 With this in mind, South Korean President Park Chung-Hee implemented the Saemaul Undong…
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March 31 BBL with the World Bank CDD Global Solutions Group
Sponsored by the Community Driven Development Global Solutions Group The Movement for Community-led Development: Strategy for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals The Hunger Project and The Millennium Challenge Corporation Held Thursday, March 31, 2016 || 12:30 – 14:00 pm || Room MC 7-860 Read the Blog Post here by Christopher Colford that reported on the…
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CSW60: Women’s Leadership and Community-Led Development
During the 60th U.N. Commission on the status of Women, The Hunger Project and the Movement for Community-led Development, a network of over 30 NGOs, hosted a parallel event an event to show the vital importance of women’s leadership for community-led development, and what is required to make it work. Individual Segments ]13:47[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34q_QggPY38]11:14[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6KJtCxi0c]
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CSW60: Empowerment-based Strategies to Build Resilience
Experts from Relief International, Solar Cookers International and The Hunger Project-Mexico share their approaches.
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Oxfam’s Female Food Hero from Nigeria: A Change-Maker in Her Community
“It’s about shifting the mindset…medium and small scale farming can generate income.“- 2014 Female Food Hero Monica Maigari from Kaduna State, Nigeria Last week Oxfam America hosted a Brown Bag Lunch, which couldn’t have came at a better time as it was a day after International Women’s Day 2016, to share their Female Food Hero(FFH) Contest .…