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Bouncing Back: How Do Population Dynamics and Social Cohesion Affect the...
‘Toward Resilience’ is a series on the meaning of global resilience and vulnerability today. “The scale and the impact of disasters today can be greater than anything we’ve previously experienced,”...
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Steven Gale on Futures Analysis at USAID
There’s renewed interest in looking at future trends at USAID, said Steven Gale, a senior advisor at the agency. But “we’re always asking ourselves, ‘what is the development goal that [USAID] wants to...
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Maternal Health in India: Making Progress in a Key Arena
Maternal mortality causes 56,000 deaths every year in India, accounting for 20 percent of maternal deaths around the world, said John Townsend, vice president and director of the Population Council’s...
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Eliya Zulu on the Integration Imperative in African Development
“[Family planning] has great value for women’s health, for children’s health, but it also has great value for the environment, and it can also help…to promote economic development,” says Eliya Zulu in...
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Clive Mutunga: Addressing Population Growth Can Build Resilience to Climate...
“We know that a number of these countries in Africa have the least to do with climate change in terms of emissions, but they are the most vulnerable, and they are the ones with the least capacity to...
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Jay Silverman on the Impact of Domestic Violence on Maternal and Child Health
“Violence against women is obviously a major factor in maternal and reproductive health,” says Jay Silverman, co-director of the Program on Gender Inequities and Global Health at the University of...
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What Does It Take to Cooperate? Transboundary Water Management Around the World
Water is the foundation of human society and will become even more critical as population growth, development, and climate change put pressure on already-shrinking water resources in the years ahead....
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From Alcohol to HIV/AIDS, Anita Raj on How Gender Inequities Affect Maternal...
“Improving the equity of women, the treatment of women and girls, the value of women and girls in society is a very important means of improving population health,” says Dr. Anita Raj of the University...
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Protecting Parks, Empowering People: Innovative Conservation and Development...
Wildlife areas and parks are designed to preserve plant and animal life in biological hotspots, but what about the people who live nearby these hotspots? In many parts of East Africa, communities...
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Combining Health and Food Security in Mozambique: Interview With Pathfinder...
Pathfinder International’s Strengthening Communities Through Integrated Programming (SCIP) is part of a new push towards integrated development – looking at communities as a whole and addressing...
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Leslie Mwinnyaa: Young People Drive Integrated Development in Ghana’s...
“I have been amazed and inspired by the youth that I’ve worked with, with their dedication and motivation to help their countrymen and to try to make their communities better places,” says Leslie...
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Facing the Future: Empowering Youth to Protect Their Health and Environment...
In the Philippines, there are health and development programs that specifically target children, senior citizens, and adults, said Joan Castro, but adolescents are underserved. Nineteen percent of the...
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Joan Castro on Engaging Youth to Create Change in the Philippines
“Exposing young people to information about PHE [population, health, and environment] and food security dynamics can be a powerful tool to steer their interests and commitment to care for the...
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Harnessing the Demographic Dividend: PRB’s ENGAGE Presentations Look to...
The demographic dividend – the idea that a decline from high to low rates of population growth can lead to dramatic economic gains – has become something of a buzzword in development circles....
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Do Population, Health, and Environment Projects Work? A Review of the Evidence
Frequent readers of New Security Beat are no strangers to the PHE approach to development – projects, often community-based, that integrate population, health, and environmental programming in a...
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