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SDSN Report for Sustainable Settlements
This Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) report was written for municipalities to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs provide a roadmap to sustainable and balanced development. Sustainable human settlements, both cities and rural areas alike, are critical for our planet’s health. SDG 11 is the ‘cities’ goal, which recognizes and prioritizes the importance…
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The White House Summit on Global Development: Celebration, Legacy, and Looking Forward
The Obama administration took July 20th to celebrate almost eight years of global development policies, strategies, and initiatives. The summit hosted six panels around youth, partnerships, governance, food security, energy, and global health. Each panel discussed successes and lessons learned, many of which hold the essence of the principles of community-led development. Practices like subnational…
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USAID “Acting On The Call”
USAID has recently released their June 2016 “Acting On The Call: Ending Preventable Child And Maternal Deaths Report”. This report’s main focus is to address equity in USAID’s 24 priority countries. With detailed charts and briefs of the improvements made this year, there is also a series of suggestions in which programs can provide new…
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The month of all things CLD
The month of June has been the golden age for all things CLD. With new commitments made between international banks as well as organizations redesigning their commitments with each other Beginning with the Women’s Foreign Policy meeting there was a debrief on the multitude of changes that need to be addressed in the development world.…