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What’s Youth Got to Do With It? Investing in Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health a Development Bargain
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“Half of the world’s population is under 30 – any development agenda would have to address their needs, including their health needs, as part of accomplishing development goals,” said Jennifer Adams, deputy assistant administrator at USAID’s Bureau for Global Health, at the Wilson Center on September 24. [Video Below]
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New Network Links Madagascar’s Environment and Health Sectors
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As the international community seeks to articulate a collective vision for sustainable development following the Millennium Development Goals, a vibrant new network has emerged in Madagascar to advance integrated population, health and environment (PHE) initiatives across this island nation.
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Beyond Scarcity: Coleen Vogel on Reframing Water Security
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What exactly is meant by “water security?” Different conceptualizations of the problem can lead to different, possibly misguided, solutions, says Coleen Vogel in this week’s podcast. Vogel, professor at the University of Pretoria and a lead author of the IPCC’s 4th and 5th assessment reports, calls for reframing the water security discourse in three key ways.
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Securing Rights or Results? A False Choice in Integrating Youth Into Sustainable Development
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“The greatest challenge we have today is that we have a world that is pushing back on rights,” said Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), at the Wilson Center. [Video Below]
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Africa’s Trifecta: Food Security, Resilience, and Demographics at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
›August 5, 2014 // By Roger-Mark De Souza
“You can’t build a peaceful world on an empty stomach,” Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday at a high-level working session on resilience and food security, quoting Norman Borlaug, the father of last century’s “Green Revolution.”
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Suzanne Ehlers: Global Development Agenda Needs Re-Framing to Focus on Rights of Young People
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Successfully incorporating the rights of young people and women into whatever development agenda succeeds the Millennium Development Goals next year hinges not only on the scope of new goals, but how those goals are worded, says Suzanne Ehlers in this week’s podcast.
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Addressing Reproductive Health and Rights in a Post-MDG World Begins With Inequality
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The importance of reproductive health and rights in responding to global climate change and facilitating sustainable development is becoming increasingly clear. But as two articles recently published in The Lancet explain, any post-Millennium Development Goals development agenda that hopes to address these issues must do a better job reaching populations that have largely been excluded from recent advancements. -
A Closer Look at USAID’s Climate Strategy: Climate-Smart Development a Work in Progress
›July 14, 2014 // By Kathleen Mogelgaard
In March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest comprehensive synthesis of climate change research. The report concludes that “impacts from recent climate-related extremes, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, cyclones, and wildfires, reveal significant vulnerability and exposure of some ecosystems and many human systems to current climate variability.”
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