Fifty farmers, including 10 women, from Sauri Millennium Village, Western Kenya, were trained in July on new concepts in water and agriculture management by a team from the Arava Institute of Environmental Studies. The training came as a result of a two year old collaboration between The MDG Centre and Mashav, Israel's National Agency for International Development Cooperation.
In December 2008, three staff from the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) went to Israel . . . [more]
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.
The . . . [more]
On the morning of November 19, 2009, more than 50 people gathered online and in the New York offices of Millennium Promise to participate in a roundtable discussion on water management initiatives in the Millennium Villages project (MVP). Led by Dr. Stephen Ngigi, an Associate Research Scientist with The Earth Institute, who is the MVP’s Water Resources Specialist and Water Coordinator based at the MDG . . . [more]
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]
The Community Based Management for Health program, currently being implemented across the Millennium Villages in East and Southern Africa, stopped recently in the pastoralist village of Dertu, Kenya which has 850 households (350 sedentary and 500 migratory).
In this difficult, arid area where communities move in search of water and pasture, the role played by Community Health Workers (CHWs) is vital and helps save lives. Though Dertu has a dispensary with a functional six bed . . . [more]
The glitzy New York fashion scene and the muddy hills of a poor Ugandan village may seem worlds apart, but a backpack is bringing them closer.
Lauren and Doreen walk side by side on a dirt road in Ruhiira, a Millennium Village in the South-East of the country, each carrying the . . . [more]
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