Tag: Gender Equality
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Gender Focus: The Promise for Self-Reliance from a Transformed USAID
The DC community of civil society organizations (CSOs) has been buzzing, often in direct engagement with USAID, about the current USAID transformation. It seems promising and the timing could not be better, but given that the majority of the world’s poor are women living in patriarchal societies, will it deliver on gender? The Agency has…
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Global Food Security Unveils Future Strategy – The Role of Women and Youth
The Global Food Security Strategy for 2017-2021 aims to strengthen and increase its attention on the empowerment of women and youth, the marginalized communities, small and medium enterprises, small-scale producers, and the extreme poor. The new strategy has elevated malnutrition into the global statement. It has incoroporated the elevation of resilience as a third objective…
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Proposed Budget Cuts: Community-led Development at Risk
President Donald Trump released his first formal proposed budget to Congress on 16 March 2017. As promised, the “America First” budget is proposing $54 billion in cuts throughout different federal government agencies and programs to offset the increase to the defense budget. Here is a snapshot of some departments that will be experiencing budget cuts:…
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Advocating for Youth Leadership to Achieve the SDGs
In keeping with The Hunger Project’s priority to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals through community-led development, advocacy for youth leadership and engagement has been at a forefront. The Hunger Project took a leading role in both the United Nation’s 6th Annual Youth Forum and the Winter Youth Assembly at the United Nations at the beginning…