Tag: UNDP

• 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

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• 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