By Catherine Blampied, Policy Advocacy Officer “Insurance is just a tool; the point is people” tweeted one attendee at RESULTS UK’s event on climate risk insurance in Parliament last week, where we got our Risky Business campaign off to a flying start. And that’s exactly the point behind our new campaign focused on empowering smallholder farmers – some of the world’s most vulnerable people – to protect...
A recording of this month's conference call is now available to download. On this month's call we were joined by Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership. Lucica spoke about the growing burden of tuberculosis and the importance of a bold pledge from the UK Government to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria at the fund's replenishment conference this autumn. To find out more about what she had to say, have a listen to the recording below: [audio mp3="/sites/default...
In 2016, we will be campaigning on three important issues on which grassroots advocacy can have real impact, and which will potentially affect the lives of millions of people: TB; nutrition; and climate risk insurance. On this month's conference call, we introduced these new campaigns to campaigners to help you plan your activities for the year. We also set you the challenge of bringing new people in to join and strengthen our movement. With more of us reaching more decision-makers, we can have...
Back in August, RESULTS supporters were asked to contact local schools, asking them to take part in the World’s Largest Lesson to promote the new Global Goals . But as RESULTS staff members, have we ourselves got anything to learn about the global goals? Just because you work in an international development organisation that has been promoting the Goals all year, doesn’t mean you have nothing to...
Recently the World Health Organisation (WHO) published its annual Global Tuberculosis Report . For the first time ever, the report confirmed TB’s unwanted title of the world’s deadliest infectious disease. In 2014, TB killed 1.5 million people, surpassing the 1.2 million of HIV/AIDS deaths . The report was a wakeup call to the global health community, a bold statement reaffirming that more needs...
We are pleased to share the recording of Novembers conference call. On this month’s call we were joined by Sona Bari, Senior Communications Officer at World Health Organization. Sona spoke about the work of Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the importance of having one last push to eradicate polio from the planet. To find out what he had to say have a listen to the recording below: [audio mp3="/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/November-Conference-Call1.mp3"][/audio] For...
We are pleased to share that our September conference call is now available to download. On this month’s call we were joined by Simon Wright, Head of Child Survival at Save the Children, who spoke passionately and honestly about the importance of health system strengthening and how the UK can support developing countries to deliver health for all. To find out what he had to say have a listen to the recording below: [audio mp3="/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/September-...
We are pleased to share that our August conference call is now available to download. On this month's call we were joined by Emily Laurie, Project Manager for the Worlds Largest Lesson, one pillar of an exciting new campaign called Project Everyone which you can find out more about here . Project Everyone was established with one objective: to make the new Global Goals famous around the world so...
We pleased to share that a recording of our July conference call is now available to download. On this months call we joined by two very special guests to launch our powerful new campaign - Leave no-one behind- Health for All . We first heard from Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance who shared how our campaigning ahead of the Gavi replenishment in January is helping to save millions of...
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