It’s that time of year again. The world’s most powerful leaders will soon be making their way to Davos for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, where they will spend a week in their mountain conclave discussing the world’s problems.
Those problems are mounting up. The Iran crisis has prompted renewed questions about peace, security and stability in the world’s most volatile region. The bushfires in Australia provide a daily reminder of our failure to respond adequately to the...
Aid and Development
Ending poverty isn’t about charity or top-down interventions. It’s about ensuring people have the tools to build their own better future, writes Mimi Alemayehou as she joins ONE’s board.
Great organizations — whether public, private or non-profit — that operate on a global scale tend to possess some of the same core attributes. They take a long-term view of their mission. They have a can-do mentality, refusing to be daunted by the complexity of the challenges they face. And they...
On May 20th the House passed the Global Fragility Act. As the Senate moves the bill through the legislative process, we’ve collected some questions about the bill, what it does, and the impact it will have on the fight to end extreme poverty. Below we provide answers to those questions. Let us know in the comments if you have other questions about the Global Fragility Act!
1. What does fragility have to do with ending extreme poverty?
ONE is still fighting...
If you’ve watched the news lately, you might have heard the term “fragile state.” When a crisis hits a fragile state, the effects can be devastating, and often contribute to the cycle of extreme poverty. In order to end extreme poverty , the world must do better about reaching the extreme poor who live in fragile states. This is a big challenge, but not an insurmountable one.
There are currently more than 735 million people living in extreme poverty....
We’re closer than ever before to ending extreme poverty. In 1990, 36% of the world’s population was living on less than US$1.90 a day. By 2015, this figure had shrunk to just 10%. That’s over a billion people no longer living in extreme poverty!
Despite remarkable progress, the fight is far from over. The World Bank’s latest official poverty estimates show that poverty reduction has slowed down to less than half the rate it was. In 2015, 736 million people...
In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 global goals for a better world by 2030. These goals have the power to end poverty, fight inequality, and change the world for the better. Guided by these goals, it is now up to all of us – governments, businesses, civil society, and the general public – to work together to build a better future for everyone.
Global Goal #5 is a gender equality. No matter how you cut it – socially, economically,...
In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 global goals for a better world by 2030. These goals have the power to end poverty, fight inequality, and change the world for the better. Guided by these goals, it is now up to all of us –governments, businesses, civil society, and the general public – to work together to build a better future for everyone.
Global Goal #4 is a quality education. Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai once said, “One child, one...
In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 global goals for a better world by 2030. These goals have the power to end poverty, fight inequality, and change the world for the better. Guided by these goals, it is now up to all of us –governments, businesses, civil society, and the general public – to work together to build a better future for everyone.
Global Goal #3 is good health and well-being. Our health is the one thing we all take...
Here at ONE, we’re in favor of foreign aid. (Maybe you’ve heard.) But foreign aid isn’t the only tool in America’s arsenal to fight global extreme poverty. Private sector investment in developing countries can be a transformative influence, creating much needed economic growth — but right now, it’s really underused.
Enter the BUILD Act.
What is the BUILD Act?
The Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development Act (BUILD) Act is an innovative way of putting private-sector dollars to work...
Story and photos by David Meffe
Somewhere in a garden-enclosed office on the outskirts of Kabale, Uganda, Faith Tushabe sits in an office scattered with binders and books. Tushabe is the Executive Director of the African International Christian Ministry, a Ugandan NGO that works with local indigenous communities to build self-reliance through poverty reduction, education, food security, shelter improvement, and sensitisation on human rights.
The NGO works especially closely with Batwa communities in Southwestern Uganda, where minority status leads to...