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	<description>The Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development (CGSD) mobilizes the scientific expertise of the Earth Institute and its partners to provide policy support to address the challenges of sustainable development in a global society.</description>
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		<title>Myanmar’s Economic Outlook</title>
		<link>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/05/09/myanmars-economic-outlook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CGSD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Logan and Talia Smith On Wednesday 24th April 2013, the Asia Society hosted a lunch and discussion entitled Myanmar&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social and Emotional Learning in Ruhiira, Uganda</title>
		<link>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/05/06/social-and-emotional-learning-in-ruhiira-uganda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 17:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CGSD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Laurent Lamothe, Prime Minister of Haiti</title>
		<link>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/05/02/interview-with-laurent-lamothe-prime-minister-of-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CGSD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capacity Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integrated Sustainable Development Policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Denning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Digital Maps as a Tool to do Spatial Planning in Education</title>
		<link>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/19/using-digital-maps-as-a-tool-to-do-spatial-planning-in-education/</link>
		<comments>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/19/using-digital-maps-as-a-tool-to-do-spatial-planning-in-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radhika Iyengar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cgsd.columbia.edu/?p=3493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navigating Complex Landscapes in the Philippines to Improve Water Management</title>
		<link>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/navigating-complex-landscapes-in-the-philippines-to-improve-water-management/</link>
		<comments>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/navigating-complex-landscapes-in-the-philippines-to-improve-water-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kye Baroang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capacity Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposal Evaluation of Education Interventions in Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/10/proposal-evaluation-of-education-interventions-in-nigeria/</link>
		<comments>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/10/proposal-evaluation-of-education-interventions-in-nigeria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angelique Mahal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Development Goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proposal Evaluation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publication: 1 Million Community Health Workers in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015</title>
		<link>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/04/publication-1-million-community-health-workers-in-sub-saharan-africa-by-2015/</link>
		<comments>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/04/publication-1-million-community-health-workers-in-sub-saharan-africa-by-2015/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CGSD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apply: Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development Executive Training</title>
		<link>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/03/apply-extractive-industries-and-sustainable-development-executive-training/</link>
		<comments>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/03/apply-extractive-industries-and-sustainable-development-executive-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CGSD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CGSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VCC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling For Abstracts</title>
		<link>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/02/calling-for-abstracts/</link>
		<comments>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/04/02/calling-for-abstracts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucia Rodriguez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MDP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Global Association of Master&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use of Real-time Data on Children’s Learning</title>
		<link>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/use-of-real-time-data-on-childrens-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://cgsd.columbia.edu/2013/03/28/use-of-real-time-data-on-childrens-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Muffly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cgsd.columbia.edu/?p=3420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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