Category: Top 10 Lists
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Results of our poll on top milestones of 2013!
Here are the results of our poll: “What do you think were the THREE most important milestones in the global landscape for ending hunger and poverty this year?” Answer Votes Percent The Post-2015 High Level Panel Report 7 23% World Toilet Day 1 3% One Billion Rising 2 6% Global Fund Replenishment 2 6% Nutrition…
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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…
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Top Ten Interventions for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality
Proven ways to make programs work and empower women By John Coonrod, Executive Vice President, The Hunger Project This article originally appeared in the March 2011 issue of Monday Developments Magazine Gender discrimination is a root cause of hunger and poverty. Women and girls—the majority of the poor—face a lifetime of marginalization, often reinforced by…