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50 Years of Family Planning at USAID: Successes, Political Challenges, and...
Since President Lyndon B. Johnson created the USAID population program in 1965, it has evolved in tandem with the global discourse on population and demography. “The agency’s family planning program...
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Who Benefits From REDD+? Lessons From India, Tanzania, and Mexico
REDD+, a global framework designed to reward governments for preserving forests, has pledged nearly $10 billion to developing countries. But minorities, indigenous people, the poor, and other...
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The SDGs Are All About Integration – Good Thing PHE Programs Have Been Doing...
Last week, the United Nations concluded one of the last negotiations on the road to adopting the Sustainable Development Goals in September. We’ve entered the home stretch of a process that has taken...
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Engaging Decision-makers on Family Planning: Some Right IDEAs
Just a few years ago, progress on global family planning and reproductive health policy seemed to be stuck in a rut. “For 20 years, development money for health had been directed to fight HIV and...
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The Road Ahead for Young People and Family Planning
Yesterday was International Youth Day, and governments, donors, and public health professionals are paying more attention to the unique needs of the world’s young people and the importance of their...
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Better Training and Support for Midwives Is Saving Women’s Lives
The feats that pregnant women perform under some of the most rudimentary conditions are sometimes unimaginable. On the first day of the Global Maternal and Newborn Health Conference being held this...
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Tanzania Tries to Turn Charcoal Trade From Enemy to Friend of the Forest
The original version of this article, by Sam Eaton, appeared on PRI’s The World. Rashidy Kazeuka says a forest cleared for charcoal is a silent and desolate place. No birds or other wildlife, just a...
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Finding the Path: Increasing Contraceptive Choice in Africa’s Most Populous...
More than 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid or delay pregnancy but are not using safe, modern, and effective contraceptive methods. Such a gap between women’s contraceptive...
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Lessons From Uganda on Strengthening Women’s Voices in Environmental Governance
Ask Agnes Namukasa about sustainably managing fisheries in Kachanga, the lakeshore landing site she calls home in Uganda’s Masaka District, and you will soon learn about toilets. From her perspective,...
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In Tanzania, Empowering Communities to Address Population, Health, and...
Africa has its share of challenges, but it also leads the way in creative development responses. Take the Lake Tanganyika area in Tanzania. Daily life is hard. There are few roads. Cellphone service is...
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Feeding the Future? A Closer Look at U.S. Agricultural Assistance in Tanzania
Between 2010 and 2015, Tanzania received more than $320 million in assistance via the U.S. government’s Feed the Future Initiative – the most of any country. But despite these commitments and an...
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We’re At Peak Storytelling – And That’s a Good Thing
Everywhere you look these days, you find storytellers. I’ve found myself going to fewer concerts after work and more storytelling nights. Podcasts have sprung up dedicated to the craft of narrative....
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A New Kind of Conservation: Making the Connection Between Community and Nature
An increasing number of conservation and health activists are beginning to understand the value of an integrated approach to development. Without addressing the needs of people, conservation measures...
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Measuring Poverty From Space, and a Loss and Damage Strategy for Pakistan
Accurate measurements of wealth are useful for developing more targeted and effective poverty reduction programs. Unfortunately, such metrics are few and far between, as data on economic livelihoods...
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Major Water Disputes Are Often Beyond War and Peace
Early this June, the Israeli government cut off drinking water to people living in the Salfit region of the West Bank and three villages east of Nablus. The consequences have been dire. Thousands of...
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Masculinity Under the Microscope: Better Accounting for Men in Climate...
“Before the famine my life was better. I was a man in my own country,” Abdi Abdullahi Hussein, a Somali refugee living in Kenya, tells The Climate Reality Project. “When you have livestock and a farm...
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A Survey of the “War on Wildlife”: How Conflict Affects Conservation
Over the last 60 years, more than two-thirds of the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots have experienced armed conflict. The effects have been myriad, from destruction as a result of military...
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Risk, But Also Opportunity in Climate Fragility and Terror Link
In a recent article for New Security Beat, Colin Walch made the case that the abandonment of some communities in Mali to deal with climate change on their own has created “fertile ground” for jihadist...
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Social Justice or Forest Conservation? Cross-Regional Comparisons Reveal a...
The original version of this article appeared on the Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World.The present understanding of the relationship between environmental conservation...
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Reaching the Farthest Behind: Maternal Health Innovations at the Facility Level
“Innovation happens when there are pioneers that stick with it,” said Monica Kerrigan, vice president of innovations at Jhpiego. “How can we—each one of us—be part of the change process?” Innovations...
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