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Ms. Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), a research centre within the Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Her research interests and publications…
The World Wide Web Foundation implemented a gender data and technology initiative in Côte d’Ivoire called “TechMousso,” a combination of Tech for technology and Mousso, which means woman in Bambara, a language spoken in most West African…
Sale Ahmad (wearing green shirt) owns a small, curbside tea stall tucked along a busy street in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Now a happy man with a wife and daughter, he was not always so fortunate. He contracted poliomyelitis at the age of seven, and when he…
Salomon de la Selva: Natalia is mother to two sets of twin girls and their older brother, Armando. Ensuring that the five children have adequate supplies for school has been a struggle for her and her husband. However, one year ago,…
Maka Emali – from aid to trade: At 40-years old, Grace is a Grandmother making colourful beaded belts to sell at Emali, Kenya, which is home to the Maasai, who are known for their elaborate beaded jewellery, and Kamba people who produce colourful…
This is Lapa, a remote mountain village in the Ganesh Himal, a subrange of the Himalayas in Nepal's Northern Dhading District. Though located only 60 km northwest of Kathmandu, Lapa requires a three-day walk from the nearest road at altitudes…
In the Antioquia region of Colombia, 3 agricultural production cooperatives developed a project to increase output and ensure food security for the 3,170 families living in the region. The instability of food supply in the region and household…
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The theme of the 2016 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP2016) is “Moving from humiliation and exclusion to participation: Ending poverty in all its forms”.
Watch our interviews with:
1. Sparsh Shah,…
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The theme of the 2016 International Youth Day is “The Road to 2030: Eradicating Poverty and Achieving Sustainable Consumption and Production”.
Watch our interviews with Jesse McElwain, Deepika Kurup and…
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This year’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is devoted to the right to education.
The right of indigenous peoples to education is protected by the UN Declaration on the Rights of…
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The World Youth Report on Youth Civic Engagement explores young people's participation in economic, political and community life, responding to growing interest in, and an increased policy focus on, youth civic…
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Cooperatives play a valuable role in social development as well as in fostering peace-building among peoples, communities and nations. Like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) themselves, cooperatives…