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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog</title>
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	<description>Extreme Poverty Ends Here</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Perspectives on Monitoring and Evaluation in the African Millennium Villages</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/10/23/perspectives-on-monitoring-and-evaluation-in-the-african-millennium-villages/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/10/23/perspectives-on-monitoring-and-evaluation-in-the-african-millennium-villages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Pronyk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Villages Info]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Centre for Global Health and Economic Development at The Earth Institute, I thought I might offer some reflections to this vigorous discussion around the optimal methods for evaluating the Millennium Villages project.]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan Minister Asserts MVP&#8217;s Impact on Nation-Wide Malaria Breakthrough</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/10/21/kenyan-minister-asserts-mvps-impact-on-nation-wide-malaria-breakthrough/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/10/21/kenyan-minister-asserts-mvps-impact-on-nation-wide-malaria-breakthrough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Villages Info]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Millennium Villages Project, and Professor Sachs individually, had a huge effect in enabling Kenya to pursue a policy of mass distribution of bed nets and the shift to community-based treatment of malaria.  The Millennium Villages Project informed our government about the efficacy of such policy breakthroughs.  Professor Sachs’s advocacy inside Kenya, with the Global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban Ki-moon, George Soros and Other Partners Show Support for Millennium Villages</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/10/11/ban-ki-moon-george-soros-and-other-partners-show-support-for-millennium-villages/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/10/11/ban-ki-moon-george-soros-and-other-partners-show-support-for-millennium-villages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyu-Young Lee</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Villages Info]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday at United Nations headquarters in New York, the Millennium Villages Project announced it would move into the second phase of its work with a focus on business development, increasing investments, scaling up, and strengthening delivery systems as it continues on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. More than $72 million in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New health and community facilities in Sauri</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/07/06/new-health-and-community-facilities-in-sauri/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/07/06/new-health-and-community-facilities-in-sauri/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Munyendo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sauri, Kenya]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[kenya]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Members of the small community of Uranga, in Western Kenya, don&#8217;t have to walk long distances anymore to access healthcare. Now, they can visit St. Elizabeth Onding dispensary, which was inaugurated recently by local officials and the Sauri Millennium Village team. The villagers were so aware of the need for such a facility that one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mama kit: Every detail counts in fight for maternal health</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/26/mama-kit-every-detail-counts-in-fight-for-maternal-health/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/26/mama-kit-every-detail-counts-in-fight-for-maternal-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shakilah Bint Shiekh</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Villages Project]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ruhiira, Uganda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[attended births]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[maternal health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Improving maternal health and encouraging expectant women to deliver at a health facility is a priority for the Millennium Villages Project (MVP). Several interventions are being implemented to boost institutional delivery. In Ruhiira, Uganda, only 8% of pregnant women delivered in a facility when the project first started. This number has gone up to 89%. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florence, HIV+ and her daughter, HIV negative: two faces of hope</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/14/florence-hiv-and-her-daughter-hiv-negative-two-faces-of-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/14/florence-hiv-and-her-daughter-hiv-negative-two-faces-of-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Wagah</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sauri, Kenya]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A little girl in a dark red dress runs around laughing. Her mother tries to catch her, before she trips on her ruffles and falls. Florence picks up Nicole and dries her tears. A tender and loving moment between a mother and her young daughter, who is learning to discover the world. A sight like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNAIDS and MVP review the first results of their partnership</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/14/unaids-and-mvp-review-the-first-results-of-their-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/14/unaids-and-mvp-review-the-first-results-of-their-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Wambua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mayange, Rwanda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mbola, Tanzania]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sauri, Kenya]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Partners]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UNAIDS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UNFPA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[UNICEF]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[WHO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Teams from the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and several UN bodies met in Nairobi in February to review the progress registered so far in the partnership launched a year ago between UNAIDS and the Project. The aim of the MTCT Free Zones Initiative is to establish zones where transmission of HIV from mother to child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dertu MVP students shine in 2010 National exam</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/06/dertu-mvp-students-shine-in-2010-national-exam/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/06/dertu-mvp-students-shine-in-2010-national-exam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdi Sheikh Mohammed</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Dertu, Kenya]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[kenya]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With a little more than 700 students, Dertu&#8217;s primary school, set in this remote pastoralist village in arid Northern Kenya, was certainly not expecting to be in the news. So the joy and pride were big when a photo of one of its students was featured in a daily newspaper: Mohamed Amin Abdishukri scored the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hygiene: talking about it to clear the air</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/03/18/hygiene-talking-about-it-to-clear-the-air/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/03/18/hygiene-talking-about-it-to-clear-the-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joelle Bassoul Mojon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Villages Info]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gumilira, Malawi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hygiene]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‘Before, we were using the bush. Now we have latrines for boys and girls, and the headmaster told us how to use them.’ The 12-year-old boy&#8217;s candid explanation is a reminder of the lack of hygiene that still prevails in schools in rural and poor areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
Like thousands of children, Nasiyani Chiwuye lives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education, no matter the cost</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/03/11/education-no-matter-the-cost/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/03/11/education-no-matter-the-cost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ruhiira, Uganda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;I have always had it in my heart that every child needs and deserves an education, but I previously had no way to realise that dream,&#8217; explains Kambunda Evarist, founder and head teacher of St. Evarist Primary School in Ruhiira. Back in 2004, he decided to pool all the resources he had to establish a [...]]]></description>
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