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Impact on under-5 Child Mortality

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

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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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

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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Minimizing Development's Impact

Authors: 
Merisha Enoe
Publisher: 
China Brief: The American Chamber of Commerce in China
Date: 
March, 2010

The China Brief published an article by Future Generations China project coordinator, Merisha Enoe.

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Interview with Bill Carmichael

Publisher: 
Alliance Magazine
Date: 
June, 2009

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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Mobilizing Human Energy

Authors: 
Calder, Jason
Publisher: 
The Worldwatch Institute
Date: 
December, 2008

Niger was all but given a death sentence in the 1970s when drought-propelled desertification, rapid population growth, and unsustainable farming practices threatened ecological collapse and mass human suffering. Women on average each gave birth to more than seven children, and the population was expected to double in the next two decades. Families who had worked their land for generations could see the tell-tale signs: it was taking longer and longer to get to trees and fresh water, and the Sahara desert was getting closer and closer.

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Mobilization of Human Resources for Sustainable Development: The Future Generations Arunachal Initiative

Authors: 
Kanno, Tage
Publisher: 
Development North East
Date: 
March, 2009

Development, in today's context, should be sustainable, something to which the common man can relate, and lead to a future which they can own.  Arunachal Pradesh in the North East of India has a relative advantage as a late starter in the development arena.  It can still learn from the mistakes of other regions which have fallen prey to to a skewed perception of development.  Under this context, how can sustainable development be brought about in the face of fast depleting natural resources and tendency of the community to depend on somebody high up or powerful to initiate th

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