Author: Nicole Graham

• Can Exposure to Female Leaders Reduce Gender Bias?

  

  As of 2008, women accounted for only 18.4% of parliamentarians worldwide, and only thirteen countries has a woman at the head of their government.1 While these numbers strongly differ between regions such as the Nordic countries and the Middle East, for instance, around the world countries need to participate in ways to involve more females […]

  Nicole Graham

  May 9, 2016

  news

• 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 […]

  Nicole Graham

  March 29, 2016

  Methodology

  Community Led Development, Gender, ISNC, Korea, Saemaul Undong, UNDP

• 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 […]

  Nicole Graham

  March 29, 2016

  Methodology

  Community Led Development, Gender, Korea, Saemaul Undong, UNDP

• Gender & Resilience – A BRACED Working Paper

  

  The Overseas Development Institute, one of the UK’s leading think tanks, recently released a working paper titled Gender and Resilience: from Theory to Practice. The paper is a synthesis of four different case studies, documenting how gender equality can be strengthened through resilience projects. It draws on the experiences of the project Building Resilience and […]

  Nicole Graham

  February 12, 2016

  Case Studies, news

  Climate, Development, Gender, Resilience

• Righting the Wrong: Oxfam America’s Report on Strengthening Local Humanitarian Leadership

  

  Oxfam America has recently released a report, Righting the Wrong: Strengthening Local Humanitarian Leadership to Save Lives and Strengthen Communities, addressing the shortfalls of humanitarian assistance, and offering solutions to this complex issue. In 2014, humanitarian assistance hit a record high of $24.5 billion. Within the last 70 years, aid workers have made massive strides […]

  Nicole Graham

  February 4, 2016

  Case Studies

  Climate, Community Led Development, Conflict, Female Empowerment, Humanitarian Aid, Oxfam

• Methodology at Spark MicroGrants

  

  Spark Microgrants works in impoverished communities in Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, with 116 community partners across the three countries. Using an in-country fellowship program, Spark trains and employs recently-graduated university students to serve as project facilitators. These facilitators reach out to villages with particularly poor infrastructure, in order to involve them in a six-month planning process of […]

  Nicole Graham

  February 1, 2016

  Methodology

  Community Led Development, Spark Microgrants

• Nuru International Methodology

  

    Nuru International applies an integrated methodology of community-led development called The Leadership Program, which seeks “to foster an environment of co-creation in which local servant leaders recognize and develop their ability to critically analyze and successfully develop poverty solutions in constantly changing environments.” Nuru aims to remove psychological and physical barriers, so that these new […]

  Nicole Graham

  February 1, 2016

  Case Studies, Methodology

  Community Led Development, Nuru International