MOMENTUM Knowledge Accelerator
Supporting improvements in voluntary family planning and reproductive health activities, including their integration with maternal and child health programs.
Supporting improvements in voluntary family planning and reproductive health activities, including their integration with maternal and child health programs.
Investment in effective policy and program interventions for youth family planning (FP) improves the use of data and evidence for FP advocacy.
(August 2006) The chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, have come under increased pressure from four decades of high human population growth in the region and an associated increase in human activity and disease.
(2012) Nearly 240 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, or one person in every four, lack adequate food for a healthy and active life, and record food prices and drought are pushing more people into poverty and hunger.1 At the same time, the world’s population has now surpassed 7 billion, and news headlines that in the past have asked “Can we feed the world?” are beginning to ask the equally important question, “How many will there be to feed?”
(2012) Jan. 25, 2012, marked the one-year anniversary of the antigovernment protests in Egypt that led to President Hosni Mubarak's resignation. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians, including a vast majority of young people, demanded political freedom, better wages, and better working conditions.