Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015
Posted by Joelle Bassoul Mojon | Dec 4, 2009 | 0 Comments
Agriculture • Dertu, Kenya • Education • Health • Millennium Villages Project • Sauri, Kenya
'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]
Posted by Margaret Wanjiku & Shakilah Bint Shiekh | Oct 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
MDG Centres • Millennium Development Goals • Ruhiira, Uganda • Sauri, Kenya
For the first time ever, more than 35 Ethiopian Parliamentarians took a two-week long tour in Kenya and Uganda in October 2009 to learn more about their counterparts’ efforts towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the region. The visit, coordinated by the MDG Centre, East and Southern Africa, and UNDP Ethiopia, . . . [more]
Posted by Stephen Ngigi | Sep 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
Agriculture • Infrastructure • Koraro, Ethiopia
Surrounded by an arid landscape and set on eroded soil, the Millennium Village of Koraro, Ethiopia, and its 55,000 inhabitants face an enormous challenge: how to maximize water use, especially for agriculture and smallholder irrigation. Before the project started in 2005, water availability for domestic use and irrigation was a major obstacle to development, in spite of two rivers running . . . [more]
Posted by Jessica Fanzo & Aregawi Tedella | Jun 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
Agriculture • Health • Koraro, Ethiopia
The Millennium Village of Koraro is located in the Hawzien district in northern Ethiopia, an area surrounded by jagged escarpments and dusty, arid land. Koraro is in one of the poorest regions of Ethiopia, owing to a confluence of geographic, political, economic, and environmental factors. It is also one of the most remote and isolated sites and suffers from . . . [more]
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