Category: sdgs
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Raj Shah on Ending Poverty
On November 21, 2013 USAID Administrator Raj Shah spoke at Brookings, saying that the End of Poverty is within our reach, and would be the top priority of the agency. Click on the image at right to download USAID’s new brochure on this subject, and click here for the full text of Shah’s remarks. Shah…
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State of World Population 2013
The 2013 report from UNFPA focuses on preventing adolescent pregnancy. Not unlike our own experience, it underscores the closely interlinked underlying conditions that must be addressed to achieve this: Child marriage, Gender inequality, Obstacles to human rights, Poverty, Sexual violence and coercion 19%, National policies restricting access to contraception, age-appropriate sexuality education, Lack of access to education and reproductive health services, and underinvestment in…
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Obama commits to end extreme poverty in 20 years
Not since FDR’s Four Freedom’s speech in 1941 has a US president spoken out strongly for ending world hunger and poverty in a State of the Union Address, as did President Obama in his February 12, 2013 address. In one paragraph he expressed a broad, multi-pronged commitment: “We also know that progress in the most…
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2012 Top Ten Trends in Ending Hunger and Poverty
This year saw a continuation and expansion of many of the positive trends in the 2011 list: civil society consultation, gender mainstreaming, transparency, small farmer empowerment. And it saw new initiatives to fill gaps in achieving the MDGs. Yet we also witnessed pushback: organized threats to women’s human rights and civil society that remind us…