Forum participants broke into smaller groups late this morning to begin tackling this key issue: “How can we access and integrate our experiences in agriculture and nutrition to maximize innovative and effective ways forward?” After more than an hour of intimate discussions, they posted their ideas on the back wall . . .
Student ambassadors from six cities–Bogota, Colombia; Inverness and Livingston, Scotland; St. Louis, Missouri; Trenton and New Brunswick, New Jersey–convened in Washington this week for the Johnson & Johnson Bridge to Employment‘s annual forum. Every fall, students and Bridge to Employment partners from the program’s sites around the world meet at . . .
George Ingram, senior vice president and director of public policy at AED, wrote an op-ed in the Huffington Post last month, titled Aid Reform within Reach: Time for the President to Lead. In it, he argues for three actions the President should take to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the . . .
AED’s Cornelius Baker recently spoke on a panel in Vienna, Austria at the International Conference on AIDS. The conference, held July 18-23 this year, is the main gathering of people working to end the pandemic–be they policymakers, researchers, health care providers, or persons living with HIV. “If you’re not doing . . .
Today wraps up the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital’s series of workshops on global advocacy, hosted in AED’s new space, Idea:Exchange. The three-part series was designed to teach teen girls about global issues connected to the Millennium Development Goals and empower them to effect change using a variety . . .
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