Tag: Gender

• Decentralization, Health System and Gender Issues in Zambia

  The Decentralisation Policy: In 2003, the Government launched the National Decentralisation Policy, which aims at devolving specified functions and authority, with matching resources, to local authorities at a district level. Under this environment, the role of the center would be to provide policy, strategic guidelines, overall coordination, monitoring, and evaluation while implementation and supervision of […]

  Wubshet Loha

  March 5, 2018

  Case Studies

  Decentralization, Employment, Gender, Health systems, Inequality, Women Empowerment

• 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: […]

  Ariene

  March 31, 2017

  news

  advocacy, Africa, African Union, CARE, Climate, Conflict, Development, Equality, Evidence, Farmers, Feed the Future, Female Empowerment, Food Security, Food security Act, Gender, Gender Equality, Gender Inequality, Global Food Security, Humanitarian, Humanitarian Aid, integrated development, Land, Local Governance, path, policy, report, Smallholders, the hunger project, Un, UNDP, USAID, Women, Women Empowerment, Women’s Rights, Youth

• Saemaul Undong – The Republic of Korea’s New Village Movement, part 2

  

  Due to the successes the Saemaul Undong (SMU) Movement saw in the Republic of Korea (ROK) in the 1970s, the government of ROK began to expand their practices into Africa, Asia, and Latin America. ROK demonstrated unprecedented growth, introducing what the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim described as “an economic and social revolution […]

  Nicole Graham

  March 29, 2016

  Methodology

  Community Led Development, Gender, ISNC, Korea, Saemaul Undong, UNDP

• Saemaul Undong – the Republic of Korea’s New Village Movement, part 1

  

  Before 1960 the Republic of Korea (ROK) was a war-torn nation with a GDP per capita of $70 – equivalent to that of Ghana.1 The government was weak, and did not have the financial capabilities to invest in large-scale rural development projects.2 With this in mind, South Korean President Park Chung-Hee implemented the Saemaul Undong […]

  Nicole Graham

  March 29, 2016

  Methodology

  Community Led Development, Gender, Korea, Saemaul Undong, UNDP

• Oxfam’s Female Food Hero from Nigeria: A Change-Maker in Her Community

  

  “It’s about shifting the mindset…medium and small scale farming can generate income.“- 2014 Female Food Hero Monica Maigari from Kaduna State, Nigeria  Last week  Oxfam America hosted a Brown Bag Lunch, which couldn’t have came at a better time as it was a day after International Women’s Day 2016, to share their Female Food Hero(FFH) Contest . […]

  Rayricus Matthews

  March 14, 2016

  news

  Africa, Community Led Development, Equality, Female Food Hero, Food Security, Gender, Land, Nigeria, Oxfam, Women, Women Epowerment, Women’s Rights

• Gender & Resilience – A BRACED Working Paper

  

  The Overseas Development Institute, one of the UK’s leading think tanks, recently released a working paper titled Gender and Resilience: from Theory to Practice. The paper is a synthesis of four different case studies, documenting how gender equality can be strengthened through resilience projects. It draws on the experiences of the project Building Resilience and […]

  Nicole Graham

  February 12, 2016

  Case Studies, news

  Climate, Development, Gender, Resilience