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Humanitarian Action Report 2008 - Foreword by UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman

This article and photograph of the cover, courtesy UNICEF, a partner and Cooperating
Organization with dgCommunity Youth for Development.

“In 2007, natural and man-made disasters continued to take a toll on the lives of people.Flooding, cyclones, landslides and tropical storms have threatened lives and livelihoods onevery continent. And in many parts of the world, from Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Iraq, Zimbabwe and Sudan, children and women continue to b more...

August 10, 2008
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Akwamfon Sustainable Agriculture and Community Education Initiative (ASACEI) is one of ASCA's sustainable development initiatives. Supported by Teach A Man To Fish, the mission of the initiative is to promote sustainable agricultural practices as a means of providing entrepreneurial education to people in Nigeria.

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  August 29, 2008

Ecofinder Youth Movement works with Kenyan Schools and neighbouring communities to build sustainable local schools and communities.Our approach is environmental entreprenuership and sustainable development education.These aim to empower the grass root schools and communities for self sufficiency through sustainable tapping of their natural resources. TeachAMantoFish started the Conservation and Agroforestry project at Lwanda Dudi Secondary School in Siaya. The project has gone full cycle in ter more...

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  August 29, 2008

The EDUCATING AFRICA Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education 2008 seek to identify the very best organizations rising to the challenges of supporting education across Africa, to highlight their models, and to reward their achievements. The competition offers 50 prizes of $1,000 for the most entrepreneurial education programs in every African country, a top prize of $10,000, and two runners-up prizes of $5,000. At Teach A Man To Fish we believe that if the huge demand for education t more...

Added by  Nik Kafka  August 28, 2008

'Every year some 3.4 million people, mostly children, die from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene. Over half of the hospital beds in the world are filled with people suffering from water- and sanitation-related diseases.

In 2002, participants in the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, made a commitment to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by the year 2015. The United Nations Deve more...

Added by  Najmee Chowdhury  August 28, 2008

'This publication, which consists of two parts, underscores the importance of population issues, including reproductive health, as a critical component of national efforts to reduce poverty and achieve the MDGs. The first part highlights key arguments on the benefits to be gained when governments make reproductive health and rights a development priority. The second part includes the 'Stockholm Call to Action', a list of practical ways to invest in reproductive health which was endorsed by a num more...

Added by  Najmee Chowdhury  August 28, 2008

This task force’s vision is to encourage global aid policies that are more effective at improving the lives of the poor and address disillusionment about what aid can achieve. How does it work?
The task force aims to agree to a set of broad principles that can be used to refocus aid and make it more effective and to shift the current debate from whether aid works to how it can be made to work better through discussions with the Young Global Leader (YGL) community, using both online debate more...

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  August 27, 2008

The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a newly formed, unique, multi-stakeholder community of the world’s most extraordinary leaders who are 40 years old or younger and who are ready to dedicate a part of their time and energy to jointly work towards a better future. Each year we identify 200-300 exceptional individuals, drawn from every region in the world and from a myriad of disciplines and sectors. Together, they form a powerful international community which can dramatically impact the globa more...

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  August 27, 2008

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