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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
A high level Korean delegation visited the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda, on December 9, to witness achievements made possible by the partnership between the Government of Korea and Millennium Promise.
Established in November 2008, this partnership known as the Korean Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is a five-year, $8 million commitment to support a pilot development program in Uganda and Tanzania. The . . . [more]
On December 1 of every year Tanzanians join other people in the world to mark World AIDS Day. Apart from speeches, testimonies, as well as voluntary counseling and testing, vitamin A supplementation and de-worming for children under the age of five are normally part of the events organized nation-wide. This is a national campaign whereby every district, division (sub district), ward and village leader are required to participate and mobilize fully all . . . [more]
Everything in her future looked bleak. Juliana Rabilo Adele, a young girl born in a family of eight in the poor rural Kenyan village of Sauri, had struggled to join a secondary school. She finished her primary education with good results but had to wait two years for her father to raise the fees for the next step. Once he did, she had to walk 2.5 km to and from school . . . [more]
'Farmers didn’t use fertilizers because they believed that if they did, they could never stop and get out of this cycle,' added the Prime Minister, . . . [more]
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