mdg News

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in its latest report, stated that Nicaragua met the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) by halving its undernourished population, even before the 2015 target date.

Female literacy has considerable multiplier effects in all areas of women empowerment and no one anywhere has a doubt that educational empowerment alone can transform women into powerful agents of social change.

During the European Microfinance Week 2010, 382 participants, representing 285 organisations from different sectors, discussed the Andhra Pradesh crisis and voiced their confidence in microfinance and its potential to contribute to the MDGs.

Women are the key for a nation’s ability to innovate and their socio-economic status is one of the strategic indicators of a country’s development.

Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) of Central America, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), recently organized the Side Event “Investment Promotion: Paving the Way Towards Poverty Eradication” in New York City.

HHSYC celebrates historic unveiling of "African Renaissance Monument” in Dakar with Senegal’s President Wade and a U.S. Delegation including Akon, Benjamin Todd Jealous, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dr. Julius W. Garvey and other prominent world figures.

Join a panel of business development executives from major device companies, moderated by one of the region’s leading life sciences entrepreneurs and venture capital veterans.

Matrix Design Group announced today MSHA approval for three additional system components; Low-Profile Reader, One-Port Reader and Back-up Power Unit (BPU), for its previously approved METS system.

My dearest children never think I have forgotten you or your needs.

A Helping Hand for Microfinance. A User-friendly E-based Approach Connecting Microfinance Staff and Deserving Women to be Empowered as a Step in Poverty Alleviation.