By Sarah Logan and Talia Smith On Wednesday 24th April 2013, the Asia Society hosted a lunch and discussion entitled Myanmar’s Economic Outlook: Prospects and Challenges. CGSD kindly sponsored our tickets for the function, as we will be spending the summer working in Myanmar as part of our summer field placements for our MDP program, [...]
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an educational approach that promotes self-awareness, social awareness and relationship skills, among other things. The initiative was started after an ethnographic assessment by Dr. Yanis Ben Amor and Michael Healy showed that 70 to 80 percent of girls and young women in the Ruhiira, Uganda cluster are affected by [...]
The Earth Institute’s Haiti Research and Policy Program at the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development hosted to Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe on April 22, 2013. The event was part of the Spring 2013 Haiti Dialogue Series and focused on articulating strategies for data-driven policy support. Following the program and a Columbia University World Leaders Forum event with the [...]
Picture this! I am in a rural District in India. I have been tasked to conduct a situation analysis of Education needs in the district. Sitting in the District Collectors Office (An officer who is in charge of the District’s functioning for all the Sectors). Where do I start? “I need a map of the [...]
The Bicol River Basin is one of the major drainage areas in the Philippines. It also happens to be one of the most vulnerable to climate-related disasters, and home to some of the poorest municipalities in the country (nearly 40% poverty incidence among families). On average, the Bicol region receives one strong typhoon every year! In addition to [...]
In continuing to support Nigeria to meet the 2015 education and gender Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), representatives from the Education Team at the Earth Institute collaboratively worked in Abuja in March with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria for the MDGs (OSSAP-MDGs) to technically evaluate proposals from 148 Local [...]
A new article in The Lancet, authored by Dr. Prabhjot Singh of CGSD and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, describes the promise of scaling up community health workers (CHWs) around the world. The international perception of CHWs has changed over the last ten years. They have increasingly come to be seen as a core way for community health [...]
Investments in oil, gas and mining can be the source of rapid advancement in sustainable development around the world, but too often may lead to corruption, social degradation, and environmental catastrophe. To address these challenges, the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (VCC) and CGSD have partnered to present an executive level training course that targets public sector officials in resource rich nations on how best to [...]
The Global Association of Master’s in Development Practice Programs, in collaboration with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), will present the First International Conference on Sustainable Development Practice on September 6-7, 2013 at Columbia University, New York. Registration is now open. The conference is seeking proposals for practical solutions to address the complex challenges of sustainable development. The [...]
coauthored by Radhika Iyengar and HaeIn Shin Until recently, large–scale assessments of children’s learning levels were considered to be a costly and time-consuming endeavor. They were seen to limit the frequency of useful assessment reports and restrict immediate usage of results to inform schools, communities or policy interventions, where remediation action is needed the most. The [...]