Hello everyone! My name is Ola Forman and I have just started as RESULTS UK’s Conference Volunteer. I will be in a few days a week helping to research, organise and promote the RESULTS National Conference. The conference will take place on the 13 th -15 th of June, after which I will be spending 10 weeks in Tanzania, volunteering with local entrepreneurs through...
By William C. Smith, RTEI Senior Associate. This blog post originally appeared on the RESULTS U.S. website here . [caption id="attachment_15699" align="aligncenter" width="650"] GPE/Natasha Graham/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0[/caption] Sixty million children remain...
Today, along with our global partners, we launch the ACTION Nutrition Donor Scorecard, an accountability tool for tracking Nutrition for Growth commitments. Until recently nutrition has been relegated to the sidelines of development planning only taking centre stage at times of acute humanitarian crises. Yet with undernutrition behind 45% of all preventable child deaths worldwide this has been a...
Hunger is more than just not having enough to eat. Not getting enough essential vitamins and minerals leads to micronutrient deficiencies, or ‘hidden hunger’. In an effort to make this form of undernutrition less hidden, here are ten things you might not know about micronutrient deficiencies:
This is a guest blog post from Norwich Grassroots Group Leader Ann Marie Pointer . It first appeared in the Norwich Evening News on Wednesday, 25 March 2015. One of the last bills to go through this Parliament will be the Foreign Aid bill. It will commit the UK to spending 0.7% of its Gross National Income (GNI) on Aid. It’s the first of the G7 nations to do this. Think of GNI as the amount of money the government has to spend. 0.7% is like the money you find down the back of the...
Matt Cooper, volunteer with RESULTS working on education issues, reports on the launch of a major new global report...
The 2015 Education for All Global Monitoring Report “Achievements and Challenges” was released today, and as its name suggests, it provides a complete overview of the progress made in education worldwide. By revisiting the goals created at the World Education Forum in April 2000, the GMR highlights the...
Our April 2015 Conference Call was all about celebrating the passage of the 0.7% Act , which received Royal Assent on 26 March, 2015. We were joined by Baroness Alison Suttie , one of the key figures in the Bill’s journey through Parliament, who gave us insight into what made the Act possible and what it means for UK aid. As always we had fantastic questions from Grassroots volunteers, who joined us from Hastings, Leeds,...
This past March, Campaigns Coordinator Anja was invited onto local radio in Reading to talk about RESULTS UK and our campaigning. In a version of Desert Island Discs, she picked 20 meaningful songs and spoke between the records of her advocacy work with RESULTS.
“Some of the questions were quite tricky, but generally it was just a lot of fun. I got to spend the afternoon listening to my favourite songs and talking about why I love my...
Why, you ask? Here are five brilliant reasons to join experts, policy-makers and fellow campaigners from the 13 th -15 th June 2015 to talk about Shaping the Agenda: a World Free from Poverty by 2030? :...
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