Category: Health
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#ShiftThePower for Health Equity
A major theme at the 2022 Global Health Council’s Landscape Symposium has been health equity. We in MCLD believe that the only way to ensure people’s right to health is to ensure they have the collective voice to demand it. We organized a concurrent session at the symposium to address the question — now that…
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Ending Hunger and CLD
On May 25, 2022 the Movement for Community-led Development discussed our role in ending world hunger. This call leads up to the World Hunger Day social media campaign on May 28. The Hunger Project recently conducted a comprehensive literature review on the causal links between CLD and ending hunger. We encourage you to review the…
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Ending Hunger and Community-Led Development: What are the causal links?
Literature Review by THP Program Team chaired by Rowlands Kaotcha I. Unpacking “ending hunger” “Hunger” is not a scientific term; it represents a basket of multiple nutrition issues. Thus, studies have focused on the specific interventions for each nutrition component which together make up “ending hunger.” The G8 commitment to food security (G8, 2009) followed…
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Ending Hunger and Community-Led Development: What are the causal links?
Ending hunger is not just about food. It requires the convergence of multiple nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions at the community level.