Category: Leadership

• IFPRI and Partners Release 2015 Global Hunger Index

  

  According to the 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI), a joint publication by IFPRI, Concern Worldwide, and Welthungerhilfe, significant progress has been made in decreasing levels of global hunger. The 2015 GHI for the developing world fell 27 percent from the 2000 GHI. However, the levels of hunger in the world are still unacceptably high, with 795…

  MCLD Team

  February 1, 2016

  Food Security, Hunger, Leadership, livelihoods, sdgs

• Youth Leadership and Voice in Post 2015: UN Resolution 2250

  

  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 sustainable development within only fifteen years. In the absence…

  MCLD Team

  December 22, 2015

  Community-led development, Leadership, livelihoods, Meetings, sdgs, Youth

  Community Led Development, Empowerment, Local Governance, Post2015, United Nations, Youth

• Inter-Epicenter Exchanges to Strengthen Local Leadership

  

  The Hunger Project-Senegal has initiated an approach associated with The Hunger Project’s Epicenter Strategy. Senegal was the first African country of intervention for The Hunger Project, starting in 1991. THP-Senegal continues to build sustainable community-based programs using the Epicenter Strategy. The strategy was devised in Africa, by Africans, and for Africans. To date, it has…

  Zyra Quirante

  November 11, 2015

  Activism, Community-led development, Leadership, Meetings

  Africa, Community Led Development, Epicenter Strategy, global leadership, Senegal, the hunger project