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Should Maternal Health Goals Be Combined With WASH?
Does access to quality water and sanitation have an effect on maternal health outcomes? That was a surprising topic of discussion on day one of the second-ever Global Maternal Health Conference hosted...
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Building a Global Network of Maternal Health Policymakers
On day three of the 2013 Global Maternal Health Conference here in Arusha, Tanzania, I was joined by the Global Health Initiative’s partners to present the results of the Wilson Center’s four-year-old...
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Avoiding the Resource Curse in East Africa’s Oil and Natural Gas Boom
This year, Texas-based Anadarko and Italian partner ENI are due to make the final investment decision on whether to construct one of the largest liquefied natural gas facilities in the world in...
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International Women’s Day: Violence Pervasive, With Wide-Ranging Effects
The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is “a promise is a promise: time for action to end violence against women.” The theme reflects that although there are a number of treaties and...
View ArticleMaking ‘Healthy People, Healthy Environment’: A Look Inside Integrated...
“We need dynamic approaches. We can’t just keep going with the single sector approach and hoping that a conservation project will do really more than it’s intended to do,” said ECSP’s Multimedia...
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New Partnerships for Climate Change Adaptation and Peacebuilding in Africa
“Currently, there is a huge gap between climate science, policymakers, and the end-users, in terms of understanding climate change and adaptation, and how that relates to conflict or peace,” concluded...
View ArticleWilson Center Premieres ‘Healthy People, Healthy Environment’ and...
Environmental security and international development aren’t typical movie-going fare, but at the 2013 DC Environmental Film Festival, ECSP premiered two short documentaries with unique environmental...
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What Does It Take to Cooperate? Transboundary Water Management Around the World
Water is the foundation of human society and will become even more critical as population growth, development, and climate change put pressure on already-shrinking water resources in the years ahead....
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Why Has the Demographic Transition Stalled in Sub-Saharan Africa?
In a recent post on the new United Nations population projections, I discussed the risk in assuming that countries in sub-Saharan Africa will progress through the demographic transition at a pace...
View ArticleA Season for Motherhood: The Role of Family Planning in Improving Maternal...
Ensuring access to family planning is not only a matter of human rights, but can also play a key role in protecting the health of mothers and children. Maternal health experts and program directors...
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Prospects for Gender Parity in UN Peacekeeping Forces, Evaluating Girls’...
The Population Council’s annual report highlights new work from one of the largest organizations doing research on the lives of adolescent girls in the developing world. Of particular note is the...
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Five Years of Population, Health, and Environment Programs: What Works and...
More than 20 percent of the world’s population live in ecological hotspots, places rich in biodiversity but often lacking basic government services. Population, health, and environment – or PHE –...
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BALANCED Project Final Survey Results in Tanzania and Philippines
The BALANCED Project just completed a five year run of supporting population, health, and environment (PHE) projects in South Asia and East Africa, and recent survey results indicate that the project...
View ArticleAs UN Debates Post-2015 Agenda, Women Deliver Development
The original version of this article, by Vicky Markham, appeared on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Impatient Optimists blog. It’s not often that we are presented with the perfect opportunity...
View ArticleRemoving Boundaries: Sean Peoples on Documenting Integrated Development in...
“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...
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Kirya: How a Village in Tanzania Shows the Challenge of Just Climate Adaptation
In many parts of the world, climate change exacerbates existing inequalities – between men and women, rich and poor, landed and landless. Climate change responses, therefore, should carefully address...
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Solidarity and Stigma: The Challenge of Improving Maternal Health for Women...
Despite the fact that with proper interventions, the likelihood of mother-to-child transmission of HIV is less than five percent, expectant mothers with HIV or AIDS often face intense stigma and...
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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programs as a Strategy to Advance Maternal Health
Of all the Millennium Development Goals, the maternal health and sanitation targets are among the farthest off track, said Rebecca Fishman, operations and special projects director of WASH Advocates....
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State of Population-Climate Change Research
What is the future of population and climate change research, and how can this research impact international policy? In a special issue of Population and Environment, environmental and social...
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Antenatal Care as an Instrument of Change: Innovative Models for Low-Resource...
A roadside billboard in Malawi reads: “No woman should die while giving life.” But in many countries, death or grave injury during childbirth is a frequent occurrence. [Video Below] Antenatal care is...
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