by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Jan 24, 2020 | Female Empowerment, Youth, Youth Empowerment
Today, we celebrate the International Day of Education, highlighting the role of education as a public good that is central to humanity’s well-being and sustainable development. In sub-Saharan Africa, less than 40% of girls complete lower secondary school. Their right...
by Chiara Harrison Lambe | Jan 6, 2020 | Empower, Female Empowerment, Global Health, Youth, Youth Empowerment
Happy New Year from all of us at DSW! 2019 was a momentous year, and not just because it marked the end of a decade. From the European Parliament elections in May to the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 in November, which commemorated the 25th anniversary of the International...
by Evelyn Samba | Dec 12, 2019 | Empower, Enhance, Youth, Youth Empowerment
DSW Kenya’s engagements with ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise This year marked the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). To commemorate this, the governments of Kenya and Denmark and the United Nations Population Fund...
by Philomena Marijani | Dec 8, 2019 | Empower, Enhance, Youth
United Nations reports indicate that progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is slow, with developing countries facing an average annual funding gap of about 2.5 trillion USD. Volunteers make up a critical human capacity resource that help close...
by Shane O'Halloran | Nov 11, 2019 | Advance, Brussels, Empower, Enhance, Female Empowerment, Foster, Global Health, Youth, Youth Empowerment
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: For those of you at the Nairobi Summit over the coming days, I hope you will join us at our concurrent session: Showcasing and Celebrating African Achievements: Cairo to Addis Ababa to Nairobi and Beyond Date: Wednesday, Nov. 13 Time: 3-4:30 pm...
by Shane O'Halloran | Nov 11, 2019 | Empower, Female Empowerment, Youth, Youth Empowerment
I am, of course, referring to the ground-breaking International Conference on Population and Development that took place in Cairo in 1994. At this event, 179 governments reached an unparalleled consensus that population policy must be based on the human right to...