Category: Locus
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Creating New Tools for the Job
By: Lydia Cardona, Conservation International Headlines about scarce natural resources driving or causing conflicts are not hard to find. Threats of war over the control and use of natural resources – such as oil, timber and water- become more imminent as rapid, unsustainable development and climate change increase the pressure on renewable and non-renewable resources.…
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Creating an Integrated Nutrition Game-Plan: Technical Brief and Recommendations from Lao PDR
By: Deirdre McMahon, Global Nutrition Advisor, SNV Malnutrition isn’t the result of a simple cause-and-effect algorithm. It can’t be boiled down into an if-then statement. It’s the result of a complex web of underlying factors and interrelated causes. And in response to that complexity, reducing malnutrition requires convergent action from many different sectors and stakeholders. …
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One Thing at a Time Doesn’t Work for Women
By: Sia Nowrojee, Program Director, 3D Program for Girls and Women “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” -Audre Lorde, activist and poet Early in my career, I worked in a women’s health clinic as a counselor,…
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Accelerating evidence-based south-south collaboration to reach the extreme poor
By: Emily Coppel and Isabel Whisson, BRAC Careful adaptation of proven programs in new contexts is key to achieving SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere In January of 2017, five officials from the Government of Kenya, The Boma Project, and CARE International traveled to Bangladesh. Their aim? To understand how BRAC, one…