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2010 Election Poll
Alliance to End Hunger Hunger Message Project 2010 Mid-term Election Poll (Provided by the Alliance to End Hunger) Since 2002, the Alliance to End Hunger has regularly conducted national, non-partisan polls of voters’ attitudes on domestic and global hunger known as the Hunger Message Project. The result is an extraordinary body of evidence demonstrating that voters…
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Social Mobilization and WASH
Social Mobilization: An Innovative Approach to Meeting Water-Sanitation Related MDG Targets in the Larger Context of Eradicating Poverty By Badiul Alam Majumdar* and John Coonrod** Presented at the Thirteenth Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) 21-23 December 2010, Islamabad, Pakistan and published in Peace and Sustainable Development in South Asia: The Way Forward, SDPI, 2011. Abstract…
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Role of Civil Society in Bangladesh’s Democratic Transition
Professor Badiul Alam Majumdar, Vice President and Country Director, The Hunger Project–Bangladesh and Secretary, SHUJAN–Citizens for Good Governance Presented at the conference on “Ideas and Innovations for the Development of Bangladesh: The Next Decade,” being jointly organized by Bangladesh Development Initiative (BDI), Democracy and Development in Bangladesh Forum (DDBF), and The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at John…
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Why We Don’t Teach People to Fish
By John Coonrod “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.” – Chinese Proverb This proverb leaps to mind whenever we think of efforts to end hunger. Yet it is surprisingly and dangerously misleading. Most of the hungriest parts…