Category: Top 10 Lists
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What we learned since Beijing
I was not in Beijing in September 1995, but it still changed my life and my mission. I had helped our founding president Joan Holmes prepare her statement (click here) based on our field experience to date and – as we had at the Third Women’s Conference in Nairobi in 1985 – we sent a…
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Top 10: How to think about the SDGs
As global citizens, it is not only important that we think about Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — better known as the SDGs or the Sustainable Development Goals — but also that we transform how we think about them. In the year 2000, the nations of the world signed a Millennium Declaration setting a bold agenda at the start…
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Top 10 Policies for Civil Society Engagement
June 28, 2017: The Hunger Project recommends that international governmental organizations (IGOs) adopt the following practices for effectively engaging with civil society as an essential element of good governance: Major Groups: IGOs should utilize a framework like the major groups defined by the UN, rather than dealing with civil society as a single category. IGO…
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Top 10 Books Relevant to Our Approach
Here are what I believe are the ten most influential books relevant to our work, with short notes on why you should read them. The Hunger Project is committed to empowering women and men to end their own hunger. We did not “invent” the commitment to empowerment; Socrates taught it 2500 years ago. In fact, as…