Center for American Progress - Sustainable Security Initiative

06/08/2015

The risk that impoverished populations in fragile and conflict-affected states will be left behind by the United Nations' ambitious development agenda is increasing as member states negotiate the post-2015 development agenda, also known as the Sustainable Development Goals

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2015/06/08/114296/fragile-progress/

The risk that impoverished populations in fragile and conflict-affected states will be left behind by the United Nations' ambitious development agenda is increasing as member states negotiate the post-2015 development agenda, also known as the Sustainable Development Goals.

05/12/2014

One of the most innovative elements of the emerging post-2015 global development agenda is a focus on universality. What would that mean in the United States?

A new report from the CAP Sustainable Security Team

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2014/05/12/89459/applying-universal-goals-to-the-united-states/

One of the most innovative elements of the emerging post-2015 global development agenda is a focus on universality. What would that mean in the United States?

03/19/2014

What's happening in Ukraine isn't Putin's first attempt at invading a country.

John Norris on what Putin learned in 1999 and what the West should have learned.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2014/03/13/85618/the-first-time-putin-tried-to-invade-a-foreign-country/

During the Kosovo war in 1999, Vladimir Putin, who was the Russian national security advisor at the time, backed a dangerous plan that almost led to NATO exchanging fire with Russian troops. Here’s what Putin learned from the incident, and what the West probably should have.

03/19/2014

In Niger, 75 percent of girls are married before their 18th birthdays, and 36 percent of them are married before their 15th birthdays

We need targeted efforts to assist child brides if we hope to break the vicious cycle that treats our daughters as a disposable commodity.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2014/03/19/85931/too-young-helping-child-brides-in-the-developing-world/

03/19/2014

A new report from John Norris, Paul Applegarth, and Casey Dunning on the case for regional Millennium Challenge Corporation - MCC compacts

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2014/03/17/85910/the-case-for-regional-compacts/

As the Millennium Challenge Corporation approaches its 10-year anniversary, it must explore and implement new aid approaches to stay on the cutting edge of international development best practices. Embracing regional compacts and regional threshold programs would allow the MCC to increase its number...

01/28/2014

Starting at 11am today:

Ending Extreme Poverty in Conflict-Affected Contexts

The World Bank estimates that by 2015, one-half of the world’s poorest people will be living in fragile and conflict-affected states. As the world begins to formulate the post-2015 global development agenda – the successor to the Millennium Development Goals – dealing with the interlinkages between extreme poverty and conflict has become more pressing than ever. President Obama and the United States Agency for International Development have committed themselves to ending extreme poverty in this generation, but the role of peace within the post-2015 agenda remains complex and sometimes controversial.

Opening Remarks:
Alex Thier, Assistant to the Administrator, USAID

Panelists:
Larry Attree, Head of Policy, Saferworld
Nancy E. Lindborg, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), USAID
John Norris, Executive Director, Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative, Center for American Progress

Moderator:
Nora O’Connell, Associate Director of Development Policy and Advocacy, Save the Children

http://bit.ly/1b0A25L

The World Bank estimates that by 2015, one-half of the world’s poorest people will be living in fragile and conflict-affected states. As the world begins to formulate the post-2015 global development agenda – the successor to the Millennium Development Goals – dealing with the interlinkages between…

01/14/2014

How Maersk is holding U.S. food aid reform hostage from John Norris via Foreign Policy

http://atfp.co/KgQWT8

How one of the world’s major shipping companies is hindering the fight against world hunger.

11/04/2013

Is local spending better for USAID - US Agency for International Development for International Development?

Center for American Progress Senior Policy Analyst Casey Dunning examines the controversy surrounding USAID's procurement practices in a new report

http://bit.ly/1a3ap2D

By better defining the rationale behind procurement reform, increasing transparency, and using current mechanisms to expand its partner base, USAID can greatly increase its partnerships with local institutions while also building support for this critical reform within the U.S. development community...

10/22/2013

'Smart power', where development and defence meet:

The US state departments, defence and USAid need greater co-operation to tackle conflict and poverty in the world

An op-ed from John Norris and Annie Malknecht in the Guardian global development blog
http://bit.ly/1aceZMA

The US state departments, defence and USAid need greater co-operation to tackle conflict and poverty in the world

10/08/2013

How a small gaggle of thickheaded Republicans could derail the entire global economy for a decade, by CAP's John Norris

http://atfp.co/1dWhEuv

Short of zombies roaming the Rayburn building and eating defenseless young, it is hard to imagine a more dystopian environment than the U.S. House of Representatives right now. It is as if the Republican Party -- not content to rest on the laurels of President George W. Bush ushering in the 2008 glo...

08/01/2013

Wholesale tax evasion, particularly in the developing world, can have devastating effects, writes Akinyi Ochieng

http://bit.ly/1csbT84

Wholesale tax evasion, particularly in the developing world, can have devastating effects.