ACCRA, Ghana - In November, Ghana's Minister for Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, formally launched the 2016 UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report; Education for People and Planet. The launch was held at the University of Education, Winneba.
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania - A new piece of legislation aimed at reinstating the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 was introduced to the House of Representatives Representative Edward R. Royce (R-CA) on November 14, 2016. The bill was passed in the House one day later and presented to President Obama on December 2, 2016.
One proposal in a recent Center for Global Development (CGD) report focuses on restructuring multilateral institutions to better suit developmental needs. A new World Bank funding structure presented at the organization's most recent replenishment conference aligns with CGD directives. As more nations climb out of extreme poverty, the capacity in which foreign aid is needed evolves.
SEATTLE - In light of the recent election, scholars from the Center for Global Development (CGD) have drafted transitional memos for incoming president-elect Donald Trump. The memos are designed to point the new administration to global issues that should be addressed over the next four years.
YOLA, Nigeria-Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria and founder of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), deliberately built his school in Yola, one of the country's poorest towns, to foster growth and development. As part of a new project for peace, AUN volunteers present locals with opportunities for growth in an effort to counteract extremism in Nigeria, particularly in the northeast.
SEATTLE - In September, the U.N. held a summit to address the growing migrant crisis. Over the course of the meeting, world leaders from the Member States discussed core issues exacerbating the problem. One of those issues was xenophobia. Xenophobic rhetoric contributes to global distrust of refugees.
Although we often think of equal education as being symptomatic of access to basic human rights, evidence suggests that access to education actually fosters equality. If schooling is used as a tool against injustice, education and women's rights become indelibly tied to create a strong line of defense against oppression.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Building on the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) has presented a new foreign aid bill on the Senate floor. The bill, S.3210, was introduced on July 14, 2016. It proposes the adoption of a tier system to evaluate corruption in countries that receive aid from the United States.
SEATTLE - The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) predicts that sub-Saharan Africa will be home to 90 percent of all children living in poverty and 43 percent of all impoverished people worldwide by 2030. As stated in its report, "The emerging face of residual world poverty is the face of an African child."
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Representatives from national libraries around the world convened at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress in Columbus, Ohio, on August 5, 2016. The gathering focused on outlining the ways in which library programs are implementing Sustainable Development Goals put forth by the U.N.
SEATTLE - In recent years, distribution of funds from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has fallen under scrutiny for sending money to wealthier nations while largely neglecting the world's poor. After taking a closer look at the OPIC spending report, Jared Kalow and Ben Leo of the Center for Global Development (CGD) noticed alarming investment patterns between 2002 and 2014.
ACCRA, Ghana - As part of an ongoing initiative between USAID, Malnutrition Matters and the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), soy milk provisions distributed to struggling Ghanaian communities are filling nutrition gaps. With the introduction of SoyCow machines, one small bean can keep children in school and turn everyday people into entrepreneurs.