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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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Young Agro-Green Africa Network (YAGANET): Leveraging Community Resources
Baluku Isaya is from the Rwenzori sub-region in Mid-Western Uganda. He is passionate about community-led initiatives and grew up in a farming background, where he cultivated his love of nature. In this month’s column, Baluku shares his journey to founding YAGANET, an organization focused on community-based interventions and unleashing the power in young people and…
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Co-creating the future of MCLD — November 30, 2022 Global Zoom Call
As CLD gains traction with policy makers, we have new opportunities for impact and influence that surpass our current structure and budget. This month’s call was to launch a global process to create a new organizational structure! This call followed up a workshop in early October, at which representative subgroup of MCLD leaders and outside…
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Join us for #16Days of activism to halt gender-based violence
From 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign is a time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world. In 2022, in the face of push-back and discouraging regressive laws, UN Women…