Tag: Women’s Rights

• 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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• 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

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