Initiative 166 Council Day, a special event organized by Mali’s Commission for Food Security and its partners, was celebrated on 14-16 April 2010 in Bamako and Segou. This event was part of the celebration of the National Association of Malian Municipalities and was chaired by Mr. Boubacar Sow, Secretary General of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Local Government.
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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]
As the Millennium Villages Project moves toward its second 5 years, the vision of the project, of jump-starting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the poorest countries, is becoming reality. With existing villages showing “remarkable results,” several countries have developed bold plans to scale up the successful interventions to the national level. The MDG scale-up phase based on the lessons learned of the MVs is on the verge of taking off, notably in Mali and Nigeria, and the government . . . [more]
Education • MDG Centres • Millennium Development Goals • Millennium Villages Project • Ruhiira, Uganda • Tiby, Mali
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