FutureGenerations

This two-page country fact sheet summarizes readers with how Future Generations is building upon Afghanistan's successes for peace and using a three-way partnership approach to improve the resourcefulness of communities.

Excitement is rapidly growing concerning the potential for community-based primary health care (CBPHC) to accelerate progress in reducing the tragedy of millions of children dying world-wide each year from readily preventable or treatable conditions. Consequently, a review of the evidence concerning the effectiveness of community-based approaches is timely.

Guyana's 2006 general and regional elections were the first in recent history un-marred by post-election violence.   The polls of 1992, 1997 and 2001 were each followed by several months of heightened insecurity, injuries and deaths from public violence and ethnically motivated attacks on citizens, and loss of property to arson, provoking fears of a return to the ethnic rioting that killed hundreds in the 1960s.

In April 2006, a large scale people’s movement, known as the Jana Andolan II, was initiated against the King Gyanendra’s direct rule, on the basis of a 12-point understanding reached between the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (CPN-M) and the Seven Party Alliance.