Millennium Villages

Apr 05

With 1,000 Days Left to Reach MDGs, A Look Back and Forward

By Jesper Frant

With the 1,000-day milestone to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in mind, the Earth Institute's Sustainable Development Seminar gathered professors Jeffrey Sachs, Prabhjot Singh, and Vijay Modi reflect on the progress of the Millennium Villages Project.

Apr 05

Progress Toward Sustainability via Agribusiness in Malawi

By Natalia Mroz

The Millennium Villages Project has begun to accelerate its efforts to promote sustainability. Mwandama, Malawi is leading is leading the way by creating rural cooperatives designed to help member farmers transition from subsistence to commercialized agriculture.

Feb 14

New Paper: Healthcare Services for Rural Sub-Saharan Africa Within Reach

By MVP

A new paper published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization has determined that providing rural sub-Saharan Africans a close-to-client health system by paid, full-time community health workers by 2015 would cost $2.6 billion per year, or just $6.86 per person covered by the program.

Feb 07

First Caesarian Section Sees Healthy Mother and Baby in Ruhiira

By MVP

For mothers and newborn children in the Ruhiira, Uganda Millennium Village, a new operating theatre at the Rwekubo Health Center can mean the difference between life and death.

May 06

Mali MDG Scale Up

By Patrick Haverman

As the Millennium Villages Project moves toward its second 5 years, the vision of the project, of jump-starting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the poorest countries, is becoming reality.

May 21

Blogging from the MVP Nairobi Infrastructure Workshop

By Dennis Haraszko

Large-scale infrastructure is often not included in the intervention portfolio for community-based development projects.

May 21

A Legendary Night for Charity

By John McArthur

This past Tuesday, I had the pleasure of attending a dinner event to mobilize support for the Show Me Campaign.

Jun 01

Before the Economic Meltdown, a Development Emergency

By Katrina Kahl

Last month, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund published the 2009 Global Monitoring Report to show our progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Jun 12

Meeting the Millennium Development Goals is the Best Investment

By Katrina Kahl

In a recent entry in the Huffington Post, Josh Ruxin discusses why we must keep our promise to end global poverty, even during the worst economic recession of the last several decades.

Sep 25

The Millennium Promise Partners’ Meeting, Obama & the MDG’s

By John McArthur

This has been a terrific week for Millennium Promise, for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and – most importantly – for the hopes of communities and families living in extreme poverty around the world.

Oct 30

Ethiopian Parliamentarians on MDG tour visit Kenya and Uganda MV’s

By Margaret Wanjiku & Shakilah Bint Shiekh

For the first time ever, more than 35 Ethiopian Parliamentarians took a two-week long tour in Kenya and Uganda in October 2009 to learn more about their counterparts’ efforts towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the region.

Feb 01

Encouraging new MDG commitments at Davos

By John McArthur

Along with a number of partners, my main objective at Davos last week was to help ensure the global challenges of extreme poverty and the Millennium Development Goals received as much practical attention as possible.

Mar 12

Breakthrough Village Results for Integrated Rural Needs

By John McArthur

This week the New York Times profiled the early results of the Millennium Villages in Sauri, Kenya.

May 27

Millennium Villages highlighted at the 3rd States General of Development Cooperation in Belgium

By MILLENNIUM PROMISE STAFF

“The Millennium Development Goals: How to step up the efforts?” was the central theme of the 3rd “States General”, which took place in Brussels on May 4, 2010.

Jun 08

Scaling Up the Millennium Villages Program in Mali

By Ibrahim Diallo

Initiative 166 Council Day, a special event organized by Mali’s Commission for Food Security and its partners, was celebrated on 14-16 April 2010 in Bamako and Segou.

Oct 05

Fifteen Years After Genocide: Reconciliation, Hope and Development

By Joelle Bassoul Mojon

The genocide memorial in Nyamata, Rwanda.

Apr 16

Tommy Hilfiger Launches 'Promise Collection' to Support Ruhiira

By Kyu Lee

Katie Holmes visited the Millennium Village of Ruhiira in Uganda. She helped to launch the collection.

Apr 03

The Costs and Benefits of the Millennium Villages: Correcting the Center for Global Development

By Paul Pronyk

In Northern Ghana, roughly 30,000 people will benefit from a new Millennium Villages site.

Oct 13

Evaluating the Millennium Villages: A response to Clemens and Demombynes

By Paul Pronyk, John McArthur, Prabhjot Singh & Jeffrey Sachs

The discussion around evaluating large-scale development projects is an important one. Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes offer a critique of the Millennium Village Project (MVP) and its research methods. Their paper misunderstands the MVP’s aims and evaluation methods. We respond briefly here, to clarify some of those basic misunderstandings about the project’s goals and approaches to evaluation.

Mar 21

Comments on Wanjala and Muradian’s 'Big Push' Paper

By Paul Pronyk

Sauri was the first Millennium Village established in 2005-2006 in sub-Saharan Africa.

Mar 20

Nigeria's Ambitious Effort to End Poverty

By Amina Az-Zubair

The government of Nigeria is using the billion dollars per annum that it receives in debt relief to take the Millennium Villages project to scale towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Above, young adults in the village of Ikaram receive computer training.

Oct 23

Perspectives on Monitoring and Evaluation in the African Millennium Villages

By Paul Pronyk

Discussing methods of evaluating the Millennium Villages Project.

Oct 04

Ban Ki-moon, George Soros and Other Partners Show Support for Millennium Villages

By Kyu Lee

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses room of MVP partners.

Aug 27

Beautiful Breckenridge

By Nina Sharma

Nina Sharma, Director of Individual Partnerships (and cycling enthusiast!), shares her perspective from Breckenridge, CO.

Aug 25

Incredible Partnership, An Opportunity of a Lifetime

By Bill Rigler

The UPCC organizing team has gone miles out of their way to promote Millennium Promise at this years race in Colorado. This historic partnership should serve as a model for other pro-level sporting events in the US.

Aug 26

Tommy Hilfiger Shirts are a Hit!

By Johnny Falla

Get 'em before they're gone! These shirts are flying off the shelves here in Colorado!

Aug 25

With Ever Larger Crowds, Vail Brings New Visibility to MP's Message

By Johnny Falla

Vail brings new energy, even larger crowds for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge for Millennium Promise.

Aug 24

Aspen: Where Passing is Synonymous with Independence.

By Jessica Masira

Jessica is the Team Leader for Sauri Millennium Village (Kenya). This is her first trip to the USA and she'll be blogging with us this week on the go from the USA Pro Cycling Challenge for Millennium Promise.

Feb 02

Sauri Looks Back on Five Years of Success

By Salome Munyendo

Located in Western Kenya, Sauri was the first Millennium Village (MV) to see the light in 2005. Five years on, the project area has grown to nearly 70,000 people and has registered numerous successes in its multi-sectoral approach.

Jul 06

New Health and Community Facilities in Sauri

By Salome Munyendo

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.

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