Daily Development speaks to Chernor Bah, Youth Advocate for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative, about what drove his determination to be included in charting the future for young people.
In a week that Daily Development is focusing on education and development, the world is remembering Maya Angelou, the poet and writer whose own formal education stopped at high school but who went on to be awarded more than 30 honorary degrees. After the struggle of her early life she overcame adversity and became a Professor of American Studies, whose work is studied in schools and universities worldwide.
The Prime Minister of Norway and co-chair of the MDG Advocacy Group Erna Solberg speaks to Daily Development about why she feels so strongly about ensuring education for girls and the role that education can play in empowering women to demand their rights and improve their health.
The post-2015 global education agenda is beginning to take shape. The EFA Steering Committee Joint Proposal endorsed by the UNESCO Executive Board includes seven targets and the race is now on to ensure that the world can monitor progress towards them. How easy is this going to be?
To mark World Immunization Week, the GAVI Alliance put together a photo exhibition to show the value of immunization against diseases such as pneumonia, rotavirus, polio, measles and tetanus, the need for life-saving vaccines, ways in which the antigens are delivered and the challenges of delivery in four countries and regions: Pakistan, Sudan, Zanzibar in the United Republic of Tanzania and Yemen.
Today, we highlight a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) piece on what the cold chain means in the world of vaccines and why it is so important. MSF nurse and midwife Dina Hovland captures the situation well: “In many places, you can often arrive at a health centre—a place that should be buzzing with children—to find it is totally empty, no staff or anything. You understand why when you see that the fridge to store the vaccines is broken and no child has been vaccinated in months.”
As part of our focus on health this week, we interview Bruce Aylward, Assistant Director-General for Polio and Emergencies at the World Health Organization. He talks about why it is important to completely eradicate polio, the achievements so far achieved through the global eradication plan and the challenges ahead.