by Mona Herbert | Jun 18, 2015 | Uganda, Youth Empowerment
President Yoweri Museveni has advised Uganda to rid its self of high fertility and corruption, if the country is to register meaningful and sustained growth. In his official remarks while launching the new National Development Plan, the president emphasized the need...
by Julie Najjunju | Jun 17, 2015 | Uganda, Youth Empowerment
Investing in sexual and reproductive health information and services, especially for young people has the potential to unlock significant economic growth. People, who are unable to fulfil their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, tend to be both...
by dswen | Jun 10, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Can you imagine giving your 12 year old daughter away to an old man to get married? It is unthinkable right? Now, imagine what this must be like for the little girl herself…if the thought scares you, it should as this is the reality faced by tens of thousands of young...
by dswen | Jun 9, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Update – a blog by our good friend in Brussels Fraser Goodwin, of Save the Children, has an excellent and more forensic dissection of the results. Read it here. Tuesday saw the end of the G7 Summit in Germany. While we at DSW were delighted to see so many of our...
by Cecile Vernant | Jun 5, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
On Tuesday May 26th, after months of coordination hours of difficult negotiations between the foreign affairs ministers, the Council of the European Union finally released these long awaited Conclusions not only on post 2015 development agenda but also on Gender in...
by dswen | Jun 1, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
If you read the blog, you will know that DSW will be actively participating in the European Development Days, the annual gathering of international development experts in Brussels this week, with several panel discussions and debates. With youth empowerment a core...
