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  • Lessons From Africa’s Great Lakes on How to Address Migration

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 1, 2016  //  By Alec Crawford & Angie Dazé
    Lake-Albert

    Migration is an important strategy for coping with environmental variability and change, but it can also place additional stress on ecosystems. Policymakers and practitioners are not always fully aware of these threats, nor fully prepared to manage them through appropriate interventions. Conservation professionals in the field therefore have a key role to play in reducing the harmful impacts that migration can have on the environment, and in mitigating any tensions that may emerge between migrant and host communities.

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  • Finding the Path: Increasing Contraceptive Choice in Africa’s Most Populous Countries

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 2, 2015  //  By Deepshri Mathur
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    More than 225 million women in developing countries want to avoid or delay pregnancy but are not using safe, modern, and effective contraceptive methods. Such a gap between women’s contraceptive behavior and reproductive goals is called an unmet need for family planning, and no region has more unmet need than sub-Saharan Africa. [Video Below]

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  • Previewing the Next Generation of Global Maternal and Newborn Health Programs in Mexico City

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    Dot-Mom  //  October 9, 2015  //  By Sandeep Bathala
    Afghan mother

    The Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, held in Mexico City from October 18-21, will provide a forum to identify, understand, and respond to the most urgent health needs of mothers and newborns. The hope is that it will accelerate momentum for maternal and newborn health in the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals and put us on a track to end all preventable maternal and newborn deaths.

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  • Scenario Planning for Development: It’s About Time

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 28, 2015  //  By Steven Gale & Rik Williams
    Nepal earthquake damage1

    Scenario planning has a long history – the RAND Corporation employed it heavily in planning for potential U.S. responses to nuclear war and 16th century Spanish Jesuit theologians pointed to the idea as proof of free will – but in many respects this powerful set of methodological tools for managing complexity and uncertainty remains underused, especially beyond the defense, intelligence, and business communities.

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  • In Search of Higher Returns: Can Extractive Industries Help Build Peace?

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    August 3, 2015  //  By Carley Chavara

    If you’re a government pondering the development of newly discovered natural resources, how do you avoid the so-called “resource curse” – the tendency of high value extractive resources, like oil, gas, or minerals, to, instead of prosperity, bring corruption, entrenched poverty, and even violence?

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  • Integrated Development Project Adjusts to Burundi’s Presidential Crisis

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 22, 2015  //  By Amy Lehman & Hannah Muirhead
    burundi

    President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to run for a third term in April plunged Burundi into a state of unrest not seen since the end of the country’s civil war in 2005. Refugees are arriving in neighboring Tanzania, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the tens of thousands, raising the possibility that the deteriorating security situation could spill over borders.

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  • European Parliament Passes Conflict-Minerals Bill; UN Releases Report on Money Flows in DRC

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    Reading Radar  //  June 18, 2015  //  By Carley Chavara

    MONUSCO-reportA new report prepared by the UN Environment Program and UN peacekeeping operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (known as MONUSCO) found that just two percent of the total value of illicit natural resources smuggled from the country comes back to armed groups. Still, these funds, which amount to around $13 million a year, allow some 25 to 49 groups to continue operating in the country’s war-torn eastern provinces. Much more, as much as 50 percent, ends up in the hands of transnational criminal networks with the remaining profits flowing to individuals or companies elsewhere in the DRC or in Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi.

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  • Is Wildlife Trafficking a National Security Threat?

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 10, 2015  //  By Cameron Lagrone & Josh Busby
    Garamba

    Trafficking of illegal wildlife goods is quickly becoming one of the most lucrative illicit businesses in the world. With growing demand in Asia, an industry that was once fed by isolated, small-scale poaching incidents is now run by well-organized, transnational criminal networks, similar to narcotics and guns. The Obama administration labeled wildlife trafficking as a national priority in 2013 and released a National Strategy for Combatting Wildlife Trafficking in 2014. A detailed implementation plan for the strategy followed this year, identifying key steps and implementing agencies to help end trafficking in the United States and abroad.

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