The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 098259089X ISBN 13: 9780982590898

Publisher: de.Mo Design Ltd N Association with the Blue Chip Foundation and VII Association, 2017

Synopsis

'The Millennium Villages Project'' (MVP) grew out of a United Nations summit conference in 2000, where nearly 200 nations agreed on eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)-- including reducing child mortality, promoting gender equality, fighting HIV/AIDS, achieving universal primary education, improving maternal health, and reducing extreme poverty and hunger. Jeffrey Sachs, a Harvard-educated economist who helped liberalize the economies of the former Eastern Bloc countries in the early 1990s, next turned his energies to poverty alleviation and development. From 2000 onward, he served as a key advisor to the UN Secretary-General and many UN agencies on the MDGs. Sach's concept for the MVP was both ambitious and disarmingly simple. Instead of undertaking the small-bore projects--digging a well, repainting a school--that typified much local development work, Sachs' team at the Earth Institute at Columbia University would aim to help rural communities achieve all eight MDGs. To demonstrate the approach, Sachs and his team selected ten main clusters of villages across sub-Saharan Africa.

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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Gary Knight is a co-founder and principle architect of the VII Agency, and founder of the Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, where he teaches non-fiction storytelling. He is also co-founder of The GroundTruth Project housed at WGBH and is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Frontline Club, London; twice Chair and President of the World Press Photo Award; a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; an Ambassador for Canon Inc.; and a distinguished and highly awarded photographer. His work is in private and institutional collections worldwide and has been exhibited many times, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The International Center of Photography, New York; the Louvre, Paris; and Scavi Scaligieri, Verona. Selected books AUTHOR HOME : Boston MS OTHER BOOKS BY AUTHOR: Evidence DR Congo: The Forgotten War Questions Without Answers The World in Pictures by the Photographers of VII AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Danny Wilcox Frazier focuses his work on marginalized communities across the United States. His work acknowledges isolation and neglect while also celebrating perseverance and strength. With his photographs from Iowa, Frazier documented those individuals continuing to live traditional lives in rural communities across the state, people challenged economically but often unwavering in their conviction to stay. A member of the VII Agency, Emmy-nominated Frazier is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. His photographs are in public and private collections, including: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film; Duke University's special collections library; Honickman Foundation; and Smithsonian, National Museum of American History. AUTHOR HOME : Iowa OTHER BOOKS BY AUTHOR : Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff with the essay, Evidence Detroit, by Danny Wilcox Frazier The Penguin Press, February 2013 War Is Only Half The Story, Vol. IV, The Aftermath Project, January 2010 Land -- Country Life in the Urban Age (catalogue), Noorderlicht, October 2010 AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Ron Haviv is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, photographer and co-founder of the VII Agency, dedicated to documenting conflict and raising awareness about human rights issues around the globe. In the last three decades, Haviv has covered more than twenty-five conflicts and worked in over one hundred countries. He has published four critically acclaimed collections of photography, and his work has been featured in numerous museums and galleries. Haviv has produced an unflinching record of the injustices of war and his photography has had singular impact. His work in the Balkans, which spanned over a decade of conflict, was used as evidence to indict and convict war criminals at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. AUTHOR HOME : New York NY OTHER BOOKS BY AUTHOR: Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul Haiti: January 10, 2010 The Lost Rolls

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"While I love statistics, what calls to us all are great stories and pictures like these in this book, which paint a billion words." --Bono, Lead Singer, U2. He is the co-founder of ONE, a global advocacy campaign with members around the world to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease; and of (RED), which partners with iconic brands to raise awareness and resources to fight HIV/AIDS.

About this edition

• Publisher: de.Mo Design Ltd N Association with the Blue Chip Foundation and VII Association
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 098259089X
• ISBN 13: 9780982590898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248