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Summary of Impact

 

With an approach that engages community and government partnerships, Future Generations raises the capacity of people to create locally-appropriate solutions that last.

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Women Improving Health

Afghan Community Health Worker with Baby

The Need: Death during childbirth is an every day occurrence in Afghanistan, which has among the highest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world. Many deaths can be prevented by changes in lifestyle and basic health care in the home.

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Future Generations Approach Reduces Under-Five Child Mortality in Afghanistan by 46 Percent

Posted on Wed, 09/09/2009 – 19:56

In remote Afghan valleys, a women’s empowerment project reduced under-five child mortality by 46 percent in two years. From 2005-2006, for each village a Community Health Worker (CHW) was trained using five new interventions of community-based child health care. Unexpectedly the outside funding was diverted, but the CHWs continued the program themselves.

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Future Generations Newsletter Autumn 2009

Authors: 
Future Generations
Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
September, 2009

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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Future Generations Master's Degree Student Receives Davis Projects for Peace Award

Posted on Mon, 03/16/2009 – 23:52

Future Generations graduate student, Joy Bongyereire, was one of more than 100 students worldwide to receive a $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace Award. Joy will use these funds to implement her project: Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management in southwest Uganda.

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Local Governance for Self-Reliant Community Change

The Challenges to Peacebuilding: In the view of many Afghans, the vast majority of international assistance has been inefficient, over-priced, externally-driven, and not locally accountable. People perceive that only foreign contractors are doing well by the current system.

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South China Morning Post features Future Generations President Daniel Taylor on Afghanistan

Posted on Thu, 10/30/2008 – 19:29
An Action Group discusses local priorities

Engaging the people provides a powerful incentive for peace

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The Case of Nepal

Authors: 
Calder, Jason
Date: 
July, 2008

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.

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The Case of Burundi

Authors: 
Calder, Jason
Date: 
July, 2008

Burundi is one of Africa’s poorest countries where over 80 per cent of the population lives below the national poverty line. It is also one of the continent’s most densely populated and land-constrained countries. Systematic divide-and-rule strategies under colonial administration helped to dissolve the unity which existed under Burundi’s ancient monarchy.

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The Case of Guyana

Authors: 
Calder, Jason
Date: 
July, 2008

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.

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