Category: news
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CSW60: Women’s Leadership and Community-Led Development
During the 60th U.N. Commission on the status of Women, The Hunger Project and the Movement for Community-led Development, a network of over 30 NGOs, hosted a parallel event an event to show the vital importance of women’s leadership for community-led development, and what is required to make it work. Individual Segments ]13:47[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34q_QggPY38]11:14[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6KJtCxi0c]
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Oxfam’s Female Food Hero from Nigeria: A Change-Maker in Her Community
“It’s about shifting the mindset…medium and small scale farming can generate income.“- 2014 Female Food Hero Monica Maigari from Kaduna State, Nigeria Last week Oxfam America hosted a Brown Bag Lunch, which couldn’t have came at a better time as it was a day after International Women’s Day 2016, to share their Female Food Hero(FFH) Contest .…
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Building the Capacity of Youth as Leaders of Today -The Kampala Principles for Youth Led Development
Jon-Andreas Solberg and Douglas Ragan co-authored a very enlightening post on UN-Habitat Youth covering five principles of youth-led development that are being utilized by youth programs globally and has begun to influence policy at the local, national and global level. These principles (listed below) originated from an initiative started in 2007 when representatives from UN-Habitat´s One Stop Youth…
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Gender & Resilience – A BRACED Working Paper
The Overseas Development Institute, one of the UK’s leading think tanks, recently released a working paper titled Gender and Resilience: from Theory to Practice. The paper is a synthesis of four different case studies, documenting how gender equality can be strengthened through resilience projects. It draws on the experiences of the project Building Resilience and…