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Future Generations Afghanistan Fact Sheet

Authors: 
Future Generations
Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
April, 2011
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This two-page fact sheet introduces the major activities of Future Generations Afghanistan.

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Annual Report 2010: Global Lessons Coming Home

Authors: 
Future Generations
Authors: 
Future Generations Graduate School
Date: 
February, 2011
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This 2010 Annual Report features five core lessons that Future Generations and the Future Generations Graduate School advanced during the last year:

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Community-Led Rural Road Construction in Nepal

Authors: 
Nawang Gurung
Date: 
October, 2010
Community Governance

Read a 22 page report on rural road construction in Nepal by community-based development expert, Nawang Gurung. Beginning with the background of road development in Nepal, this report details the causes of rural road construction mushrooming, the process of construction, the impacts, advantages, disadvantages, cost effectiveness, and a plan forward for community-led rural road development in Nepal.

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Afghanistan 2010 Fact Sheet

Authors: 
Future Generations
Date: 
May, 2010
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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.

 

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Impact on under-5 Child Mortality

Authors: 
Luke Taylor-Ide
Publisher: 
World Health Organization (WHO)
Date: 
March, 2010
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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.

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Impact on under-5 Child Mortality

Authors: 
Luke Taylor-Ide
Publisher: 
World Health Organization (WHO)
Date: 
March, 2010
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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.

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Future Generations Newsletter Autumn 2009

Authors: 
Future Generations
Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
September, 2009
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Future Generations Autumn 2009 newsletter features articles on:

  • Reducing child mortality in Afghanistan
  • Kitchen gardens raising women's empowerment in Northeast India
  • New Pendeba Society in Tibet, China
  • Connecting students through DimDim
  • Alumni News: Women's Photovoice
  • Kresge Planning Grant for Green Campus
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Grounds for democratic hope in Arunachal Pradesh: Emerging civic geographies and the reinvention of gender and tribal identities

Authors: 
Betsy Taylor
Publisher: 
New Delhi: Oxford University Press
Date: 
July, 2009
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This article attempts to understand the possibilities for democratization, sustainable prosperity, equity and multiculturalism in Arunachal Pradesh. It grapples with these wider questions through an analysis of ten years of community mobilization in three tribal areas of the state, from 1997 to 2006. The goal is to understand how democratic public space can be nurtured, expanded and deepened.

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Interview with Bill Carmichael

Publisher: 
Alliance Magazine
Date: 
June, 2009
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Bill Carmichael, Chairman of the Board of Future Generations, shares his experience in building the capacity of civil society organizations with the Ford Foundation from 1968 - 1989. Caroline Hartnell interviews Bill Carmichael for Alliance magazine's June 2009 issue focused on philanthropy’s role in promoting democracy and civil society.

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Toward a Better Future in Afghanistan: An Investigation into the Central Council of Shahidan in Bamyan Province

Authors: 
Kazim Yazdani
Publisher: 
Future Generations Graduate School
Date: 
May, 2008
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This case study provides an overview of the history of the village councils, known as shuras, of Shahidan valley in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province with a special focus on the process of training and involving ex-combatants in local governance and community development projects.

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