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Affordable housing initiatives in BC have a profound impact on reducing poverty, enhancing quality of life, and fostering inclusive communities. Explore our projects and see how we're contributing to positive change across the province: https://lnkd.in/ghbD26-N #AffordableHousing #InclusiveCommunities #BCImpact #HousingSolutions

Hi all! this video explains Catholic Relief Services Bosnia and Herzegovina's work on social housing. This initiative is a great example of the different roles and interventions that NGOs can take in the future. There is an opportunity for humanitarian and development organizations to work with local actors and governments on long-term housing solutions that address systemic needs and provide systemic solutions. This is the example!

Delighted to launch this series and to highlight our global review of how forest property rights-related policies & programs affect poverty. Please have a look! Key findings: -Evidence suggests interventions to strengthen forest property rights in contexts around the world have led to positive or mixed outcomes. -Interventions promoting more extensive rights appear to lead to positive outcomes in alleviating poverty. - BUT evidence from more robust causal impact assessments remains minimal. Based our results we recommend: 1. Further investment in strengthening forest property rights for local communities, especially more extensive rights. 2. Careful policy and program design so that they do not create or exacerbate existing inequalities. 3. Support communities so they can benefit from their rights while ensuring sustainability of forest resources. 4. New research that uses rigorous methods to examine forest property rights interventions in a wider range of geographies. Thanks to my co-authors, incl. Katia Nakamura, Pushpendra Rana & Samantha Cheng, and support from The World Bank Program on Forests, USDA NIFA, and Keough School of Global Affairs.

The Innovation of the Week is Poverty Graduation. A cost effective model pioneered by BRAC in Bangladesh has proven that a well delivered package of interventions can help people move out of extreme poverty. By providing cash transfers to help improve consumption, business training and capital, mentoring and coaching and support to start new income generating activities poverty graduation showed that people can sustainably increase their incomes and consumption to 'graduate' from extreme poverty. USAID is supporting Village Enterprise (villageenterprise.org), one of the groups bringing this concept to scale in Rwanda. Village Enterprise will be working closely with the government to embed poverty graduation in the government's own programs as it seeks to eliminate extreme poverty by 2026. https://lnkd.in/ew_C64py

👉 What is the route out of poverty for Wales? For housing associations, resilience in the face of hardship starts at community level. However with Welsh poverty levels remaining stagnant for the last decade, it couldn’t be clearer that we need a new approach. Our new research highlights how housing associations already play a central role in tackling poverty. They do this through: > supporting tenants into employment and education opportunities  > building and maintaining safe, warm, energy efficient homes  > delivering a wide-range of health and wellbeing initiatives But they can’t fix the problem alone. So what should the ultimate long-term plan be to get us out of the crisis? Find out in our new research report 🔗 Links in comments to: Report in full; CHC blog - New research: Housing associations’ work to shift the dial and alleviate poverty in communities across Wales.

As a part of Poverty Solutions' research on the geographic factors of poverty, U-M graduate students Meg Duffy & Jasmine Simington explored the connections between extreme weather and disadvantaged communities struggling to cope. People with low incomes have lower capacity to prepare for and cope with extreme weather and climate-related events. Shaping disaster relief assistance to be accessible to those with the greatest need is a key component in the fight to end poverty. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/qGneN

"Through our mental model approach, we've been able to map out the impact that #climatechange has had on children in the #MiddleEast. This will allow us to re-design our programs according to children's needs, and minimize the impact of the #climatecrisis on children's well-being in the future" said our ESCA Adviser Aaron Tanner at the World Urban Forum 12 Egypt. Learn more about our study here: http://t.ly/5jaBh #WUF12 #youth4climate #WUF12Egypt

I fully support WASH initiatives like this, more impactful urban planning, and being intentional about inclusion, equity, and poverty eradication. This initiative is crucial for creating sustainable, healthy, resilient and just communities. The eradication of pit latrines, as demonstrated by this state programme in Trinidad and Tobago, is a significant step toward improving sanitation, hygiene and addressing the social stigma associated with inadequate facilities. By installing flush toilets and washrooms, we not only enhance hygiene but also empower young women and girls, particularly in vulnerable contexts, by improving menstrual hygiene management. I look forward to seeing us address the gendered dimensions of poverty, material deprivation, construction development, and the social organization of labor and state relations in urban planning. By explicitly engaging with these issues, we can strengthen the effectiveness of interventions and ensure that our efforts are inclusive and equitable. Addressing these complexities head-on allows us to create urban spaces that are not only functional but also just and supportive of all community members. I fully support these place-making initiatives. keep up the good work.

This is sad and worrying to see. Development Initiatives was one of the few sources of data on whether all these promises on locally-led development were being kept. I find it hard not to be cynical that a key reason governments are not funding them anymore - is because they are failing to deliver or be properly accountable for these promises. We have a systemic problem in that the way funding flows in the sector is mainly going to an over-sized body of global mega-INGOs, with too little getting to the hands and feet (local actors) and too little to the brains (organisations focused on accountability and learning how to do this better like DI, NEAR, Pledge for Change, CHS Alliance, Talk to Loop etc).

We engaged in a deep discourse on whether resilience projects should focus more on system resilience or household resilience? This debate was intense just as our drive to facilitate economic recovery in the Northeast is. You can read the full debate below.