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Driving Economic & Social Change – Highlight Women Entrepreneurs in Peru
Equal Futures Partnership Advances Global Women’s Opportunities
Video of the Week: Reading in Peru
According to experts, in the first grade children must learn how to read and understand what they read. In the second grade, they must improve their fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. With more fluency there is greater chance for children to understand what they have read. That’s why in countries that are are more advanced in education, there are set reading standards for children. In Latin America, children [...]
Video: Peruvian Chocolate
A video for international youth week. This fun video about chocolate and cacao, the key alternative to coca in USAID’s alternative development program, was produced by a Cedro-supported youth network in the Peruvian jungle. Cedro is a USAID Peru local grantee and a key civil society player in the fight against drugs.
Women Combating Climate Change
Last week I was in Durban, South Africa where I attended the Seventeenth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-17). Climate-resilient, low carbon development is sustainable development, so it’s no surprise that many of the issues addressed at COP-17 are crucially important to USAID’s development [...]
