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DEAUVILLE - InterAction is in Deauville this week, joining thousands of international reporters at the G8 summit -- two days of meetings between leaders of the world's most powerful nations which are being held in this pretty seaside town in northern France.

InterAction member ONE has just released its annual DATA report, a scorecard on whether Group of Eight (G8) nations and the European Union are meeting commitments they made to sub-Saharan Africa back in 2005. The release of ONE’s report is timely, as it comes the week before G8 leaders meet in Deauville, a picturesque seaside town in northern France.

Sometimes it takes a public figure to drive home the suffering an illness can cause. This time, it was Kjell Magne Bondevik, former prime minister of Norway, who shared his personal struggle with depression at the Sixth World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders, co-hosted by Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC).

“I was sad all the time. I was not able to get out of bed,” he said. By 1998, he felt ashamed and thought he wanted to step down from office.

“Best practices” and “innovative programming” are terminology used a lot in the NGO community to promote successful, effective and easily-replicable projects.  But what really are “best practices” and “innovative programming”?

Spurred on by the urgency of food security issues, as price increases reduce access to food for millions of the world’s poor and most vulnerable, InterAction developed the Best Practices and Innovations (BPI) Initiative, which focuses on identifying and learning from “what works” in food security and agricultural programming.