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Removing Boundaries: Sean Peoples on Documenting Integrated Development in Tanzania
›“We knew that we had a lot of reports, we knew that we had a lot of policy papers, but what we wanted to tell was a good story,” said ECSP’s Sean Peoples speaking recently at Duke University about the short documentary, Healthy People, Healthy Environment: Integrated Development in Tanzania.
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Tailored to Fit: Programming for the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young Women in Africa
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The first time Almaz, a teenager living in rural southern Ethiopia, went to the crowded health care clinic in her village to get contraception, she was told they only helped older women with children. The second time, she waited hours only to find out that her preferred method of contraception was out of stock and she would have to return another day. [Video Below]
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“See What Story the Data Tells”: PAI’s Gina Sarfaty on Mapmaking With a Purpose
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“Maps are inherently compelling because they contain a high resolution of information and most people have really been trained since grade school on how to read a map,” says Population Action International mapping specialist Gina Sarfaty in this week’s podcast.
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Delivering Success: Scaling Up Solutions for Maternal Health (Report Launch)
›Since 2009, the “Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health” series, co-produced by the Wilson Center, Harvard’s Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund, has been one of the few public policy forums dedicated to maternal health. [Video Below]
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Vicky Markham, Impatient Optimists
As UN Debates Post-2015 Agenda, Women Deliver Development
›October 23, 2013 // By Wilson Center StaffIt’s not often that we are presented with the perfect opportunity to affect a broad set of development policies as we are currently with the UN’s post-2015 agenda.
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Storytelling Is Serious Business: Narratives, Research, and Policy
›The use of storytelling, through evocative writing, short films, infographics, and maps, to convey global issues is increasingly popular, yet few organizations are able to invest the time and energy needed to develop emotionally compelling and visually expressive content. [Video Below]
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From Malthus to Ehrlich and Beyond: William Pan on the Roots of PHE
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More than four decades ago, Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren said complacency concerning the impact of human population growth is “unjustified and counterproductive.” More than 200 years ago, Thomas Malthus made the case that “the way we have to reduce the birth rate is family planning and delaying marriage, [thus] expanding the number of years between births,” says Duke University’s William Pan in this week’s podcast.
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Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka on Gorilla Conservation and Community Health in Uganda and DRC
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Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka never expected to be so deeply involved in family planning when she started Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) 10 years ago. CTPH began with a simple mission: to help preserve endangered mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. But, as Kalema-Zikusoka explains in this week’s podcast, they quickly found that to help the gorillas, they had to help the people living around them.
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