Editor's Note: This post is a response to Michael Clemens' post on the Center for Global Development blog entitled "Why a Careful Evaluation of the Millennium Villages Is Not Optional"
We would like to thank Michael for his comments on the evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project and to briefly respond.
The need for careful evaluation and long term follow-up. We fully agree. The duration of the Millennium Villages Project is, in fact, 10 years, according to the 2015 MDG timeline. We are now completing the mid-point (end-of-third-year) review of the . . . [more]
This March Prof. Masayuki Tadokoro, a well known professor of International politics at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, took two weeks off to visit the Sauri Millennium Village Project (MVP) with Millennium Promise Japan staff. With the intent of looking at ways the university could cooperate with the MVP in the future, the Professor was interested in understanding how sustainable the project is. He was pleased to learn that sustainability of the Millennium Villages was inculcated in the project processes right from the . . . [more]
This week the New York Times profiled the early results of the Millennium Villages in Sauri, Kenya. The article by Jeffrey Gettleman highlights the community's remarkable progress in food security, education, health, and income-generation. Crucially, these integrated gains towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been achieved through a very modest budget, with only $60 per person of total annual project expenditures and the same amount of community, government and partner expenditures.
But one of the most important lessons of the Millennium Villages project is that the gains are taking place far beyond the first program site in Sauri. . . . [more]
Energy services are increasingly important for the Millennium Villages (MVs), and at a special breakfast seminar on . . . [more]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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