Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015
Posted by Paul Pronyk, Jeffrey Sachs & Prabhjot Singh | Oct 23, 2011 | 2 Comments
General Villages Info
As the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Centre for Global Health and Economic Development at The Earth Institute, I thought I might offer some reflections to this vigorous discussion around the optimal methods for evaluating the Millennium Villages project.
Posted by admin | Oct 21, 2011 | 0 Comments
General Villages Info
"The Millennium Villages Project, and Professor Sachs individually, had a huge effect in enabling Kenya to pursue a policy of mass distribution of bed nets and the shift to community-based treatment of malaria. The Millennium Villages Project informed our government about the efficacy of such policy breakthroughs. Professor Sachs’s advocacy inside Kenya, with the Global Fund, and at the United Nations, helped not only Kenya, but all of Africa to make a breakthrough . . . [more]
Posted by Kyu Lee | Oct 11, 2011 | 0 Comments
General Villages Info
Yesterday at United Nations headquarters in New York, the Millennium Villages Project announced it would move into the second phase of its work with a focus on business development, increasing investments, scaling up, and strengthening delivery systems as it continues on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. More than $72 million in new pledges were made, including $27.4 million by George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations. These funds will . . . [more]
Posted by Salome Munyendo | Jul 6, 2011 | 1 Comments
Health • Sauri, Kenya
Members of the small community of Uranga, in Western Kenya, don't have to walk long distances anymore to access healthcare. Now, they can visit St. Elizabeth Onding dispensary, which was inaugurated recently by local officials and the Sauri Millennium Village team. The villagers were so aware of the need for such a facility that one of them donated the plot where it was built, while others contributed with bricks and construction material. [caption id="attachment_1693" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Tree planting at the inauguration of the new dispensary"] . . . [more]
Posted by Shakilah Bint Shiekh | Apr 26, 2011 | 0 Comments
Health • Millennium Villages Project • Ruhiira, Uganda
Improving maternal health and encouraging expectant women to deliver at a health facility is a priority for the Millennium Villages Project (MVP). Several interventions are being implemented to boost institutional delivery. In Ruhiira, Uganda, only 8% of pregnant women delivered in a facility when the project first started. This number has gone up to 89%. Still, the team wanted . . . [more]
Posted by Margaret Wagah & Joelle Bassoul Mojon | Apr 14, 2011 | 0 Comments
Agriculture • Business Development • Health • Sauri, Kenya
A little girl in a dark red dress runs around laughing. Her mother tries to catch her, before she trips on her ruffles and falls. Florence picks up Nicole and dries her tears. A tender and loving moment between a mother and her young daughter, who is learning to discover the world. A sight like so many others. But this scene has a twist to it: Florence is HIV+ and Nicole is not. The pair lives in the Millennium Village of Sauri, Western Kenya, and made the trip to Nairobi -- Nicole's first into the big capital city -- to share . . . [more]
Posted by Philip Wambua & Yanis Ben Amor | Apr 14, 2011 | 1 Comments
Health • Mayange, Rwanda • Mbola, Tanzania • Millennium Development Goals • Sauri, Kenya
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 is essentially eliminated. This is part of a broader call towards virtual elimination . . . [more]
Posted by Abdi Sheikh Mohammed | Apr 6, 2011 | 0 Comments
Dertu, Kenya • Education
With a little more than 700 students, Dertu's primary school, set in this remote pastoralist village in arid Northern Kenya, was certainly not expecting to be in the news. So the joy and pride were big when a photo of one of its students was featured in a daily newspaper: Mohamed Amin Abdishukri scored the highest marks in North Eastern province at the 2010 Kenya . . . [more]
Posted by Joelle Bassoul Mojon | Mar 18, 2011 | 0 Comments
General Villages Info • Gumilira, Malawi • Health
‘Before, we were using the bush. Now we have latrines for boys and girls, and the headmaster told us how to use them.’ The 12-year-old boy's candid explanation is a reminder of the lack of hygiene that still prevails in schools in rural and poor areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Like thousands of children, Nasiyani Chiwuye . . . [more]
Posted by nhanda-williams | Mar 11, 2011 | 0 Comments
Business Development • Education • Ruhiira, Uganda
'I have always had it in my heart that every child needs and deserves an education, but I previously had no way to realise that dream,' explains Kambunda Evarist, founder and head teacher of St. Evarist Primary School in Ruhiira. Back in 2004, he decided to pool all the resources he had to establish a first rate primary school in his home community. St.Evarist, a private school, caters for families who can . . . [more]
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