Tag: Resilience
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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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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…
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Forging resilience: defining next steps and building on initial gains
Forging Resilience: A Symposium at American University (AU) Washington, DC, February 25, 2014 A number of practitioners, evaluators, educators, researchers, funders, and representatives of civil society organizations and development agencies convened at the American University Washington, DC campus for a daylong symposium themed Forging resilience: defining next steps and building on initial gains. The participants…