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		<title>WaterAid Paper on the Post-2015 Development Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) May 14, 2013 Recently, the UK based organization WaterAid released a white paper presenting the case for strong and ambitious goals for the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector when creating the post-2015 development framework. Recognizing that WASH plays a critical role in health, education, gender equality, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Draft of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Report Open for Public Consultation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) May 9, 2013 The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN), a group formed by the UN Secretary General in August 2012 to mobilize scientific and technical expertise from academia, civil society, and the private sector in support of sustainable development, will soon be issuing their report, “An Action Agenda for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Revolutionary Egypt and the Future of Cairo’s Informal Settlements</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) May 1, 2013 Egypt’s revolution and the ousting of Hosni Mubarak has given power back to Cairo’s people, but has also forced the city to both legislate and reinvent itself. Some of the more unfortunate consequences of this chaos have been graffiti, traffic jams, riots and even sexual assault, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghana Adopts Comprehensive Urban Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy, IHC) April 26, 2013 This month, after an exhaustive consultation process, the government of Ghana released a National Urban Policy Framework and Action Plan to “facilitate and promote sustainable development in Ghanaian cities and towns.” The Policy was developed over the past five years as an attempt to address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USAID Releases Strategy on Water and Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) April 24, 2013 Last week, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) revealed its 2013-2018 water development strategy. It is the first plan released by the agency that targets water programs, a sector that USAID spends over $500 million on annually. The strategy focuses programming into two objectives: providing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McKinsey Global Institute Releases Urban World iPad App</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) April 19, 2013 This week, the McKinsey Global Institute released an exciting free app for iPads. Called Urban World, the app allows casual and professional users alike to compare many of the world’s largest cities in an interactive and visual way. The app opens to a picture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incremental Development in Post-War Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) April 17, 2013 Tokyo, Japan is viewed as one of the most modern cities of the world. Not far from the high-rise Tokyo city-center though, some might be surprised to see a much different city. The surrounding residential areas of Tokyo resemble the low-rise high-density habitats more often associated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Podesta Speaks at UN Foundation Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) April 11, 2013 Last Friday, John Podesta, the Chair and founder of the Center for American Progress and member of the UN High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda spoke at an event sponsored by the United Nations Foundation. The 5th of April represented the beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stark Reality Slum Evictions in Lagos, Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) April 5, 2013 Forced evictions have been slowly taking place in Lagos, Nigeria for years. The rapidly growing city of 21 million people, the second largest in Africa, is struggling to balance a thriving economy that sees Porsche dealerships and Dubai-style shopping centers next to areas of abject poverty and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Citizens Make Their Voices Heard in Forming the UN’s Post-2015 Agenda</title>
		<link>http://intlhc.org/blog/global-citizens-make-their-voices-heard-in-forming-the-un%e2%80%99s-post-2015-agenda</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) March 25th 2013 In the formation of their post-2015 development agenda, the United Nations has prioritized the input of citizens from all corners of the globe. Through the World We Want campaign, the UN is utilizing social media, online forums, events, and hand written letters to empower people to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USAID Forward Progress Report: Global Development in the 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) March 22, 2013 On the Same day USAID released its first USAID Forward Progress Report, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Center for American Progress (CAP) hosted USAID Administrator, Dr. Rajiv Shah, for a discussion on the role of international development and the reforms needed to make international aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USAID Releases Draft Urban Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) March 15, 2013 This week the Policy Planning and Learning (PPL) Office at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) released a draft of their upcoming new policy Sustainable Service Delivery in an Increasingly Urbanized World. The IHC was very pleased to see USAID release the policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Partners International: The Past and Future of USAID Housing and Urban Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell March 13, 2013 In the next 25 years, more than half of the poor in developing countries will live in cities, but U.S. assistance for international housing and urban services programs has all dramatically decreased in recent years. IHC partner City Partners International recently announced the publication a new study on effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Story of Sequestration Impacts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) March 8, 2013 Last week, the final chance for Congress to come to a budget compromise came and went. Despite being built as a measure to force compromise, presented as a package of cuts so disagreeable to both sides of the aisle that a new deal had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commemorating International Women&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) March 8, 2013 Today’s holiday, International Women’s Day, is a celebration of the progress that has been made in advancing women’s rights since activists first marched on this day over a century ago. And while the progress that has been made is commendable, there is still work to be done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Conference on Evidence and Knowledge in Humanitarian Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) March 1, 2013 Monitoring and Evaluation has long been a challenge for the global development community, especially in the wake of disasters. While individual organizations have gotten far more adept at evaluating their own projects, coordination and standardization between organizations remains a major stumbling block in long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNC Research Challenges United Nation’s Statistics on Sanitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) February 28, 2013 This past month, the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC), estimated that 4.1 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation facilities, a number that is much higher than the United Nation’s Joint Monitoring Program’s estimate of 2.5 billion. The discrepancy between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The United States and Global Development: An Approach in Transition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) February 20, 2013 This past Tuesday, the Development Assistance and Governance Initiative at the Brookings Institution and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) co-hosted a discussion on the current and future status of the U.S. global development reform agenda. The panel was comprised of representatives from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, USAID, Georgetown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IHC Releases FY 2012 Annual Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FY 2012 Annual Report is now available online. The report highlights the activities of the fiscal year, running from October 2011 through September 2012. The IHC published a paper and set of case studies, co-sponsored another successful graduate student essay competition and launched a blog. We also strengthened our advocacy program through meetings and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Damon Goes on Strike for Water and Sanitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) February 15, 2013 This week, the global water and sanitation organization Water.Org launched a new campaign, championed by co-founder and actor Matt Damon. Designed to generate new interest in water and sanitation around this year’s World Water Day, the campaign is attempting to grab attention with something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberia&#8217;s Landless People Have a Lesson for Visiting World Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) February 13, 2013 The UN High Level Panel, formulated to devise a framework for a new post-2015 global development agenda, met for the third time earlier this month in Monrovia, Liberia. The visiting group, including Great Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, discussed the underdevelopment and poverty that many countries still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking About Development Failures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) February 7, 2013 In a New York Times article last Friday, Sam Loewenberg commended the Mumbai City Initiative for Newborn Health for publishing a report detailing the failure of a three-year urban health program. Acknowledging that no one wants to see a program fail, Mr. Loewenberg stresses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3rd Meeting of High-Level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) February 6, 2013 The 27 member panel that met in both New York and London in the fall, convened again in Monrovia, Liberia this past week to continue discussions around formulating a framework for a new global development agenda following the expiration of Millennium Development Goals in 2015. The three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Income Inequality Alive in the US and Abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) February 1, 2013 Andrew Burmon, an editor at the Huffington Post, wrote an article this week about the juxtaposition between the luxury tourism industry and the realities in slum communities in many developing countries. Discussing the income inequality represented by the all too common sight of high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Health &amp; Innovation Conference: April 13-14</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) January 31, 2013 Professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries will convene at Yale University this spring at the world’s largest global health conference. The two-day conference and its more than 300 speakers will present lectures and workshops covering several topics of global health, international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peepoo: An Innovative Approach to Providing Sanitation in Slums</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) January 23, 2013 Nairobi’s Kibera slum, the second largest slum in Africa, is characterized by poor access to sanitation, typical of such settlements. Latrines that are available to Kibera residents are often far away, unkempt, shared by dozens of people, and can be cost prohibitive. For women, journeys to these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the 3rd Anniversary of Haiti’s Earthquake</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) January 15, 2013 January 12th marks the 3rd anniversary of the devastating earthquake that hit Port Au Prince, Haiti, killing over 200,000 people and destroying the homes of 1.6 million more. In the months after the earthquake billions of dollars were pledged from governments, multilaterals, and NGOs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti Earthquake Anniversary Link Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) January 11, 2013 This Saturday will mark the 3rd anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Much has been written about the recovery efforts that have taken place over the past few years, the challenges and mistakes that have been made, the successes that have occurred, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN HABITAT Conference: Making Slums History – A Global Challenge for 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hopewell (Intern, IHC) January 11, 2012 In November 2012, UN HABITAT held a conference in Rabat, Morocco in an effort to share best practices on policies and the implementation of slum upgrading, eradication and prevention programs by local and national governments around the world. The three day conference was attended by delegates from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Fiscal Negotiations May Impact Foreign Assistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Anjali Bean (Research and Policy Associate, IHC) January 9, 2012 While the recent fiscal deal was a welcome if imperfect compromise for both sides, it only delayed major debt reduction decisions that will have significant implications for foreign assistance funding in the coming years. The Budget Control Act of 2011 required Congress to come [...]]]></description>
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