Project Profiles

Community-Based Disaster Risk Management

Pakistani communities fight back against climate-related disasters Until recently, Nazeeran Bibi felt that her life was held hostage by the...

National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership

From conflicts to natural disasters, humanitarian agencies are at the forefront of providing life-saving aid to populations in need. Negotiating...

Global Hunger Index

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a respected and heralded annual report designed to raise awareness and trigger action to...

Institute for Disaster Impact Reduction

The Wide Impact of Natural Disasters From super typhoons and unprecedented drought to relentless monsoons and devastating earthquakes, natural disasters are striking with increasing frequency and severity across the world. Natural disasters have killed more...

Child survival

The statistics are staggering. Globally, 7.6 million children die before their fifth birthday; approximately 40 percent of these deaths occur...

Innovations for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

Every year, about 300,000 women die from causes related to pregnancy and nearly six million children die before their fifth...

Paribartan

Along the Bay of Bengal, which spans the coasts of Bangladesh and India, poor communities struggle to cope with the...

Lantana

In the late 1990s, the hills around Ngara in northwest Tanzania were still home to thousands of families who had fled the terror of genocide in neighboring Rwanda and ongoing trouble in Burundi. Today, the...