Rural Reporters
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Clean-fuel Cookstoves May Improve Cardiovascular Health in Pregnant Women
Jan 18, 2017Replacing biomass and kerosene cookstoves used throughout the developing world with clean-burning ethanol stoves may reduce hypertension and cardiovascular risk in pregnant women, according to new research published online, ahead of print in the American Thoracic... -
Lagos: Over 10,000 To Be Rendered Homeless As Police Demolish Otodo Gbame Community
Nov 11, 2016COMMUNITY WATCH – One month after the Governor of Lagos State went to the media announcing the Lagos State Government’s intention to demolish “shanties” along waterfronts across the state – and just days after the Lagos... -
UNDP ‘urbanizes’ rural communities liberated from Boko Haram insurgency
Nov 11, 2016By Augustina Armstrong-Ogbonna SPECIAL REPORT – Twelve remote communities that were ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency are beneficiaries of a strategic and sustainable intervention from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which is providing basic... -
#SRHRDialogues on how to facilitate and advocate for #RightToHealth with a special focus on access to Contraception for Young Women Living with HIV
Oct 24, 2016Insights from Juliana Odindo on #Voices Q1. What barriers do young women living with HIV face in accessing Contraception? Young women living with HIV don’t have many contraceptive options. This is due to the fact... -
Kenya: Young Women Lack Access to Safe Abortion Services
Oct 23, 2016By Michael Okun Oliech, Kenya In 2012 the Google Zeitgeist Report ranked abortion as top on the list of the subjects Kenyans search for in the ‘How To’ category. This showed that many girls and... -
Why Family Planning Needs Of Rural Women Can No Longer Be Ignored
Oct 17, 2016By Michael Okun Oliech Access to safe, accurate, high quality, affordable, acceptable and voluntary family planning is a basic human right yet thousands of young girls and women who want to avoid pregnancy in Kenya’s rural... -
How Can Rural Women Help End World Hunger And Poverty?
Oct 15, 2016“The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have gender equality and women’s empowerment at their core, and include a target to “double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women”. Indeed, rural women... -
#SaveTheDate: How Can Rural Journalism Foster Global Development?
Oct 2, 2016This month, to support the hardworking men and women fostering development and equity to improve rural livelihoods, we would be engaging the director of Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Al Cross, in a TweetChat focusing... -
Save The Date: Young People, Agriculture And Sustainable Development Tweetchat!
Aug 8, 2016How can youths be better engaged in Sustainable Agricultural practice in line with the 2030 Agenda? How can young Agripreneurs work towards sustainable agriculture practice in line with SDG 2? What is the responsibility of farmers... -
YOUNG FEMINISTS BLOG SERIES ON #WhatWomenWant Featuring Isabella Muthoni
Jun 7, 2016We hear from Isabella Muthoni- Kenya #WhatWomenWant campaign is a collaborative effort launched by the ATHENA network. The Campaign aims to engage activists and advocates in women’s civil society & feminist organizations to contribute towards renewed...