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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; General Villages Info</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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Pronyk</dc:creator>
		
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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>
		
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyu-Young Lee</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1617</guid>
		<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>Innovative tropical laboratory in the middle of the Ghanaian rainforest</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/22/innovative-tropical-laboratory-in-the-middle-of-the-ghanaian-rainforest/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/22/innovative-tropical-laboratory-in-the-middle-of-the-ghanaian-rainforest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nela Berlanga</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bonsaaso, Ghana]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[General Villages Info]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I arrived to the Bonsaaso Millennium Villages Project (MVP) site, my first impressions regarding the status of healthcare delivery were above expectations:  I was pleasantly surprised about the great work that MVP and the Ghana Health Service had carried out in this cluster. I found 7 functional health centers, managed by midwives operating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Food Prize Wrap-Up</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/15/world-food-prize-wrap-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/15/world-food-prize-wrap-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beatrice Biira</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General Villages Info]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-moon]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What an amazing week this has been! I’m leaving Iowa today with an enhanced perspective on the role of agriculture in not only feeding families, but as an economic activity. For my friends and family still in Uganda, agriculture is more than a way of life; indeed, agriculture’s obvious role is to provide necessary nutrition. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Canada Doing Its Part and More?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/05/24/is-canada-doing-its-part-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2009/05/24/is-canada-doing-its-part-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 18:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McArthur</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a posting on the Global Brief blog, Millennium Promise CEO John McArthur questions the Canadian government&#8217;s commitment to foreign aid and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
This week Canadian Development Minister Beverley Oda made a policy speech outlining Canada’s renewed emphasis on improving the quality of its foreign aid dollars. A focus on [...]]]></description>
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