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Future Generations Master’s Degree Student from Burundi Wins $10,000 Davis Project for Peace Award

Posted on Mon, 2010 – 06 – 21 18:47

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U.S. Institute for Peace funds action-research to learn from Afghanistan's successful communities

Posted on Mon, 2010 – 05 – 17 14:11

Kabul – With a recent grant from the United States Institute of Peace, Future Generations will identify and learn from communities across Afghanistan that have successfully managed their security and development needs in the midst of conflict.  Using an action-research approach centered on the concept of Positive Deviance, the findings will be applied with communities, policymakers, and international actors in order to improve peacebuilding policy and practice. 

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Dan Terry Family Fund: Former Afghanistan Country Director Killed in Afghanistan

Posted on Mon, 2010 – 08 – 09 19:20

 On August 5, 2010, friend and former Country Director of Future Generations Afghanistan, Dan Terry, was killed in Afghanistan while returning from an eye camp with nine other aid workers.

In honor of our friend and colleague, Future Generations has established the Dan Terry Family Fund to help family members attend the funeral service in Kabul, Afghanistan. To donate, click <here>.

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Afghanistan 2010 Fact Sheet

Authors: 
Future Generations
Date: 
May, 2010

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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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, 2009 – 09 – 09 16:56

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, 2009 – 03 – 16 20:52

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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