Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015
Posted by Amy Shaw | Mar 8, 2010 | 0 Comments
Infrastructure • Millennium Development Goals • Partners
Energy services are increasingly important for the Millennium Villages (MVs), and at a special breakfast seminar on . . . [more]
Posted by Jackline Oluoch | Mar 3, 2010 | 3 Comments
Health • Millennium Villages Program
Children and mothers across the Millennium Villages (MV) will benefit from a new health application based on mobile phone technology that will be used at the household level in all sites. The technology was presented to community health teams at a continent-wide workshop held in Nairobi in February 2010. The ChildCount+ application utilizes mobile phone technology to enhance maternal care and care for children under 5 . . . [more]
Posted by Richard Ogeda | Feb 24, 2010 | 2 Comments
Education • Sauri, Kenya
It is possible! That was the key message from Margaret Ndanyi, the Director of the school health, nutrition and meals Unit at the Kenya Ministry of Education, after touring schools in the Sauri Millennium Villages Project. She was there to experience firsthand the School Health, Nutrition and Meals programs supported by the Project in the Gem . . . [more]
Posted by Serigne Tacko Kandji | Feb 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
Agriculture • Business Development • Potou, Senegal
On Monday 22 January, 2010, the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Jacques Diouf, visited the Community Garden of Gabane Wolof located in the Potou Millennium Village cluster. This garden is established by the Millennium Village project and used by FAO to implement its GIPD (Gestion Intégrée de la Production et des Déprédateurs) Program. Mr Diouf was accompanied by the FAO . . . [more]
Posted by John McArthur | Feb 1, 2010 | 0 Comments
Millennium Development Goals
Along with a number of partners, my main objective at Davos last week was to help ensure the global challenges of extreme poverty and the Millennium Development Goals received as much practical attention as possible. There were a number of highlights. One was Bill and Melinda Gates' extraordinary Friday announcement of $10 billion to support vaccine research and implementation over the next 10 years. This comes on the 10th anniversary of the launch of GAVI (the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations), which has produced remarkable breakthroughs in child health and international aid mechanism design since its launch at . . . [more]
Posted by Deusdudit Mjungu | Jan 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Health • Mbola, Tanzania • Millennium Development Goals
Since it's inauguration in mid 2006, the Mbola Millennium Villages Project (MVP), Tanzania, has addressed the disease burden in the area and malaria is cited as one of the most important health issues facing the community. The baseline survey of 2007 showed the endemicity of malaria in the cluster, with a prevalence of about 16%. In response to this challenge, the Project put together a coordinated plan of action to . . . [more]
Posted by John McArthur | Jan 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Millennium Development Goals
Editor's Note: The following originally appeared on The Huffington Post on January 28th, 2010 By Johann O. Koss, CEO and President of Right to Play & John W. McArthur, CEO of Millennium Promise Government leaders cannot solve global challenges on their own any more. In today's much flatter world, it is everyday people --and, critically, their personal networks--who have the potential to be the world's big new problem solvers. Haiti's post-earthquake emergency has vividly displayed the need for coordinated best efforts from non-profits, companies, individuals, online communities, governments and the UN system. The same mindset of partnership, urgency, and "all hands . . . [more]
Posted by Jeannette Mukabalisa | Jan 26, 2010 | 1 Comments
Agriculture • Business Development • Interventions • Mayange, Rwanda
An entrepreneurial group of Mayange residents are building a new business by taking an old idea—beekeeping—and updating it with the help of training from the Millennium Villages Project and financial support from the Mayange Community Development Fund. A total of 33 men and women who previously kept from one to ten traditional beehives to produce medicinal honey have formed a beekeeping cooperative to build modern hives to supply honey for the local . . . [more]
Posted by Bill Rigler | Jan 14, 2010 | 4 Comments
Agriculture • Education • Health • Infrastructure • Millennium Development Goals • Sauri, Kenya
I’m sitting in a rural doctor’s office listening to the senior administrator describe innovations in maternal health care. As I look around at the bright, airy, and clean conditions of the facilities, my thoughts are interrupted by her cell phone’s ringtone – I think it’s Jay-Z – and I cannot help but think of how amazing it all is. The administrator is teaching me how cell phones and text messages are being used to facilitate treatments for a wide range of illnesses between the health care workers at the clinic and their counterparts at major hospitals halfway across . . . [more]
Posted by Aloys Hakizimana | Jan 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
Agriculture • Business Development • Mayange, Rwanda
All were anxiously expecting it: the farmers in order to sell off their harvest, the community to buy good quality products, and the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) team to kick-start this income generating venture. On November 10, the cassava flour processing plant started production in Mayange, Rwanda. Less than two months later, it's already a success. Until then, farmers in the region were selling their cassava fresh to traders and buying the flour they use as staple food from the market at a hiked price. The establishment of the plant means that they will increase their income by trading a . . . [more]
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