Category: Locus
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Holding a Space for the Hard Conversations: Reflections on UN CSocD56 Panel
By Ellie Price, Locus Coalition Coordinator Last month, The Hunger Project, The Movement for Community-Led Development and Locus co-hosted a panel titled “Ending Extreme Poverty is Local: community-led, integrated approaches to sustainable development” at the 56th UN Commission on Social Development in New York. Our panelists, Maurice Bloem, Executive Vice President of Church World Service,…
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Integrated approaches are key to ensuring the poorest in least developed countries aren’t left behind
By Karina Weinstein, Program Director, FXB International A recent analysis presented by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to its member States on February 5, 2018 revealed that the world’s poorest countries (Least Developed Countries, LDCs) are not on track to achieve goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN…
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ICCE TIG WEEK: Using M&E data to evaluate the impacts of an integrated and holistic international development model
By: Ashweeta Patnaik, Ray Marshall Center ICCE TIG WEEK: Using M&E data to evaluate the impacts of an integrated and holistic international development model by Ashweeta Patnaik Hello, I’m Ashweeta Patnaik and I work at the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) at The University of Texas in Austin. RMC has partnered with Nuru International (Nuru) to…
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Are we learning enough about integrated programs through impact evaluations?
By: Tessa Ahner- McHaffie, FHI360 Are we learning enough about integrated programs through impact evaluations? Integrated development raises a lot of questions. Tessa Ahner-McHaffie and colleagues from FHI 360 tried to answer some of these in a Systematic Review published on Gates Open Research and currently being peer reviewed. In this guest blog, she describes…