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Bracing for Impact: Proposed Budget Cuts to USAID and the State Department
By: @alovelyimperfection President Donald Trump released his first formal proposed budget to Congress on 16 March 2017. As promised, the “America First” budget is proposing $54 billion in cuts throughout different federal government agencies and programs to offset an increase to the defense budget. Here is a snapshot of some departments that will be experiencing…
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CONCAUSA: Strengthening Youth Initiatives in the Americas
By: Adam Mohawk-Breen and Rebecca Nelson For International Youth Day, we celebrate the initiatives of America’s young people to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals! Today is International Youth Day, which was started by the UN in order to celebrate youth contributions to conflict prevention and the transformation of their communities. This day gives us at…
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The State of Decentralization in West Africa: Mixed Progess
Experience in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone. Since the 1990s, various African countries have adopted measures of decentralized governments as a means to expedite development, improve the democratic space and enhance socio-economic inclusion. Key indicators of the success of decentralization are the amount of local government spending (as a percent of total government…
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A Toe-hold for Localizing the SDGs: Top 10 things we learned at the HLPF
From July 10-19, 2017 world leaders gathered at the 2017 High Level Political Forum to review progress on the 2030 Agenda – the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). (See the 2017 Report here). This year, the focus was on poverty, hunger, health, gender equality, infrastructure and the seas. Here are my takeaways, looking through our “bottom-up”…