As the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict, and climate change continue to increase rapidly around the world, building cohesive, inclusive, and resilient communities will be the basis of sustainable development gains. However, persons with disabilities are too often left out of conversations on these critical issues, despite being among the most affected groups. Due to overlapping crises, […]
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Proper nutrition during pregnancy and while breastfeeding is important for mothers as well as crucial to their infants’ health. Women with poor nutrition together with their growing fetuses are at a greater risk of morbidity and death, from malnutrition. Malnutrition is a major concern for pregnant women or those who may become pregnant in developing […]
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On 1st December of every year, people around the world join hands in commemoration of World AIDS Day. They unite to show their support for people living with and affected by HIV and to remember the lives lost to HIV- related illnesses. World AIDS Day is an opportunity for all people around the world to […]
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In our previous article, we discussed Evaluation Designs in Monitoring & Evaluation. Today we look at the process of evaluation. An evaluation is the systematic assessment of an ongoing or finished project, policy, or program, its design, implementation, and outcome. An evaluation aims to determine the significance and fulfillment of objectives, development effectiveness, efficiency, result, […]
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There has been a rise in the number of people in need of humanitarian food aid across northern Ethiopia to an estimated 9.4 million. This comes as a direct result of the ongoing conflict, as announced by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Amhara region, which has been the worst hit, has had the […]
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Indicators of Food Security Food security is defined as when everyone has at all times access to and control over sufficient quantities of good quality food for an active healthy life while food insecurity refers to a lack of access to enough good, healthy, and culturally appropriate food. Household food security is the application of […]
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The history On 25th November 1960, the Mirabal sisters were brutally assassinated for identifying as women and activists. But what was their crime? Their only crime was fighting for their rights against Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator in 1930-1961. In 1979, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an international bill of rights for women, thus calling […]
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People in Bentiu, the northern part of South Sudan and capital of Unity State, are experiencing outbreaks of infectious and waterborne diseases, and rising malnutrition and food insecurity as a result of some of the most severe floods there have been in decades. A failure of humanitarian authorities and organizations to ramp up the response […]
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In our previous discussion, we defined supply chain management as the art of managing the entire supply chain process, i.e. all the factors to consider so as to get products to their end-users as efficiently as possible. To simplify this, we can describe it as the things we do to impact the behavior of the […]
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The Federal Government of Somalia as well as the humanitarian community are shocked by the rapidly exacerbating drought in Somalia. Projections in climate depict that a fourth consecutive season of failed rainfall in Somalia is inevitable and there is a risk of a possible extreme situation by April 2022. In 57 out of 74 districts, […]
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