FutureGenerations

This  brochure introduces the Guyana Community Scholars Initiative, a partnership of Future Generations Graduate School and the Guyanese and American Business and Professional Council to build the capacity of development practitioners in Guyana.

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A decade-long Maoist insurgency in Nepal killed more than 10,000 people. In 2006, a Seven Party Alliance (SPA) reached a 12-point understanding with the Maoists toward a common goal of ending the rule of King Gyanendra, reinstating parliament, and opening elections to all parties for a Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution.

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.

In a community-based initiatives 2010 newsletter, World Health Organization published an article on a "case demonstration in the central highlands of Afghanistan." Through such activities as training and empowering community health workers and organizing mothers into women's action groups, child mortality decreased by almost 50%.  Future Generations Afghanistan, a local nongovernmental organization, provided technical support for this project.