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	<title>Millennium Villages Blog &#187; Millennium Development Goals</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>UNAIDS and MVP review the first results of their partnership</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/04/14/unaids-and-mvp-review-the-first-results-of-their-partnership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Wambua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mayange, Rwanda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mbola, Tanzania]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Teams from the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and several UN bodies met in Nairobi in February to review the progress registered so far in the partnership launched a year ago between UNAIDS and the Project. The aim of the MTCT Free Zones Initiative is to establish zones where transmission of HIV from mother to child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nineteen students from Mbola receive a secondary school scholarship</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/03/01/nineteen-students-from-mbola-receive-a-secondary-school-scholarship/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/03/01/nineteen-students-from-mbola-receive-a-secondary-school-scholarship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liana Mavura</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mbola, Tanzania]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Connect To Learn]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nineteen students from Mbola Millennium Village, in Uyui district in Tanzania, have been awarded secondary school scholarships from the Connect To Learn program. The scholarship recipients are attending local schools supported by Connect To Learn with mobile broadband technology investments in order to provide these students, their classmates and their teachers with access to quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Community Health Workers program receives an Award for Excellence</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/08/the-community-health-workers-program-receives-an-award-for-excellence/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/08/the-community-health-workers-program-receives-an-award-for-excellence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackline Oluoch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a proud moment: out of nearly one hundred entries, the Community Health Workers (CHW) program of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) was singled out by the World Health Organization (WHO) for an award of excellence.
Here we were, the participants at WHO&#8217;s second Global forum on human resources for health in Thailand, at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sauri looks back on five years of success</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/02/phase-ii-here-we-come-sauri-looks-back-on-five-years-of-success/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2011/02/02/phase-ii-here-we-come-sauri-looks-back-on-five-years-of-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Munyendo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Located in Western Kenya, Sauri was the first Millennium Village (MV) to see the light in 2005. Five years on, the project area has grown to nearly 70,000 people and has registered numerous successes in its multi-sectoral approach.
The MV team and the community celebrated this at the inauguration of new classrooms at the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strengthening links with the Kenya authorities: focus on health and nutrition</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/12/08/strengthening-links-with-the-kenya-authorities-focus-on-health-and-nutrition/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/12/08/strengthening-links-with-the-kenya-authorities-focus-on-health-and-nutrition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Wagah</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MDG Centres]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, Sauri Millennium Village, Western Kenya, marked the half-way point in the project. With five years of successful innovations and interesting challenges behind it, and five to go to the Millennium Development Goals deadline, our aim now is to strengthen our links with the local authorities and ensure that they will take our interventions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruhiira to Connecticut, just a mouse-click away</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/25/ruhiira-to-connecticut-just-a-mouse-click-away/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/25/ruhiira-to-connecticut-just-a-mouse-click-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Ruhiira, Uganda]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[School-2-School]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kabagambe Fudier, head of ICT programs at Omwicwamba Primary School in Ruhiira, is truly an embodiment of what the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is all about: by utilising the tools and skills provided by the project, he has created change both in his personal and professional life. A powerhouse of energy and enthusiasm, his finger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating the Millennium Villages: A response to Clemens and Demombynes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/13/evaluating-the-millennium-villages-a-response-to-clemens-and-demombynes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/10/13/evaluating-the-millennium-villages-a-response-to-clemens-and-demombynes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Pronyk</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[community ownership]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Demombynes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Sachs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MDG's]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Michael Clemens]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[To download this article as a PDF, please click HERE.
The discussion around evaluating large-scale development projects is an important one.  Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes offer a critique of the Millennium Village Project (MVP) and its research methods.  Their paper misunderstands the MVP&#8217;s aims and evaluation methods.  We respond briefly here, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith&#8217;s story of hope: Towards virtual elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/08/17/faiths-story-of-hope-towards-virtual-elimination-of-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/08/17/faiths-story-of-hope-towards-virtual-elimination-of-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Wambua</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is 10:50 am on a cloudless August day in Western Kenya. The HIV and AIDS Counselor from Sauri Health Centre and I have taken the short drive to the home of Lilian Awino Adhiambo, a 32 year old mother of 6 children aged 9 months to 13 years.
At first sight, this is just another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marenyo community proud of its achievements, four years on</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/08/03/marenyo-community-proud-of-its-achievements-four-years-on/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/08/03/marenyo-community-proud-of-its-achievements-four-years-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salome Munyendo</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first time that US Ambassador Earl N. Phillips heard about Marenyo, a community within Sauri Millennium Village (Western Kenya), was four years ago during a conference. Touched by the story, he decided to support the villagers to fulfill their objective of lifting themselves out of poverty and reaching the Millennium Development Goals. But little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WFP Director hails the &#8220;revolution of hope&#8221; in Ruhiira</title>
		<link>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/07/28/wfp-director-hails-the-revolution-of-hope-in-ruhiira/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/index.php/2010/07/28/wfp-director-hails-the-revolution-of-hope-in-ruhiira/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naomi Handa-Williams</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Sachs]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[World Food Program]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.millenniumpromise.org/?p=1257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Welcome visitors, welcome today, we&#8217;ve all been waiting so long!&#8217; Coming over the crest of the hill into the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda, children&#8217;s singing voices gradually become louder, intermingled with bursts of clapping and laughter. The long-awaited visitor, Jeffrey Sachs, is due to arrive at any moment, and the anticipation is palpable. Sachs, [...]]]></description>
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