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Through Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria, USAID is improving individual, family, and community nutrition and changing health norms.

• 03/07/2024
• Ramatu Ada Ochekliye

A better understanding of agency through a gendered lens will enable health-focused social and behavior change programs to produce transformative results.

• 10/25/2023
• Rachel Taylor, Piyush Kumar, Courtney McLarnon

The world faces a profound climate crisis that requires collective action and integrated solutions. Here are three ways that USAID’s investments in integrated family planning approaches are addressing the climate crisis.

• 09/22/2023
• Aoife O’Connor

The interconnectedness of life on Earth has never been more apparent, and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is using this perspective to explore how climate-sensitive health threats that impact food security and human well-being can be better predicted to help save lives.

• 08/23/2023
• Hannah Button

The effects of climate change are threatening agricultural systems and access to nutritious food around the world. This blog explores the Conceptual Pathways between Agriculture and Nutrition independent research project.

• 08/01/2023
• Ashley Boddie

Several student projects around the world were recognized as winners of the 2022 USAID Science for Development Awards. The projects were in the fields of agriculture and food security, climate and environmental protection, global health, and working in crisis and conflict.

• 07/24/2023
• USAID

Our 2023 Photo Contest theme is USAID’s Climate Strategy in Action: Confronting the Climate Crisis Across Sectors. We are looking for submissions that show the breadth of issues, impacts, and solutions to climate change across 13 categories. Submissions will be open starting July 11, 2023.

• 06/26/2023
• Climatelinks

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience (MRR Innovation Lab) researchers are returning to the sites of their prior program evaluations where people who took part in the studies have since then been struck by disaster.

• 01/18/2023
• MRR Innovation Lab

Energy access is critical for strengthening health systems in lower- and middle-income countries. Progress in maternal and child health, combating infectious diseases, and other health priorities also requires co-investment in clean, reliable energy.

• 01/05/2023
• Amanda V. Quintana, Jaime L. Jarvis, Joyce-Lynn (Lyly) Njinga

In Malawi’s capital Lilongwe, thousands of people hit the nightclubs to party, dance, and eat braai, but Helbert Thondoya is not there to dance.

• 11/29/2022
• Nicholas J. Parkinson

Climate threats to food safety are less publicized and less well understood, but remain just as serious.

• 07/28/2022
• Matthew Thielker

This year’s theme, #TheHumanRace—a global challenge for climate action in solidarity with people who need it the most—brings the immediate human cost of the climate crisis into the spotlight.

• 06/09/2022
• USAID

Do you have great photos of changemakers in climate and development? Do you want to promote your work on Climatelinks? Now is your chance!

• 05/17/2022
• Climatelinks

The USAID ReachHealth project seeks to close gaps between policy and reality through a comprehensive approach to improving reproductive, maternal, and neonatal health outcomes in the Philippines.

• 03/17/2022
• Leah Quin

In 2021, Climatelinks featured a wide array of USAID’s climate-related work through its blogs. The Climatelinks blog acts as a resource for the global Climatelinks community and serves as a storehouse for information in the form of lessons learned, success stories, newsletter recaps, and report summaries. 

• 12/28/2021
• Steve Hardeman