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Hunger Project, The
Statement of Purpose The Hunger Project is a strategic organization and global movement committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, we empower local people to create lasting society-wide progress in health, education, nutrition and family incomes.
Founded in 1977, The Hunger Project works strategically — discovering, year-by-year, the conditions that hold hunger in place. The Hunger Project then reinvents itself to catalyze a transformation in those conditions.
The critical issues that now must be addressed are: strengthening local democracy--local people must have sustainable structures that enable them to exert their responsibility and authority to meet their basic needs, and to ensure the resources to which they are entitled; and a fundamental transformation in gender relations--women need to be able to participate as full and equal partners in the process of development, and gain voice in the decisions that affect their lives. 
Programs & Activities
Strategic Planning-in-Action (SPIA): In more than 2,000 villages in 13 developing countries, The Hunger Project applies a decentralized, multi-sectoral, people-centered approach to development. SPIA is a two prong strategy: grassroots people are mobilized to create their own vision, priorities and strategies based on their own self-reliance; and leadership is mobilized that can clear away obstacles and link people to the resources to which they are entitled.
South Asia Initiative
The South Asia Initiative empowers grassroots women in India and Bangladesh as key leaders in local democracy. Recent laws have guaranteed women one-third of all seats in local government. Our strategy includes advocacy with government and the media, and training and ongoing empowerment of women elected representatives.
African Woman Food Farmer Initiative
The African Woman Food Farmer Initiative is designed to cause a breakthrough in the economic empowerment of Africa’s most important, and least supported, producers — the women who grow Africa’s food. In eight countries, The Hunger Project is pioneering a program of credit, savings and investment. We have mobilized hundreds of thousands of people and have galvanized media attention to this issue.
Africa Prize for Leadership
The Africa Prize for Leadership is designed to call forth the committed, effective leadership Africa needs to achieve the end of hunger. The prize annually honors outstanding men and women for their contributions to the well being of Africa’s people.
Latin America
In Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, The Hunger Project is applying the methodologies it has developed around the world to empower grassroots people to end their own hunger, and to contribute these approaches to the larger movement of organizations and agencies working in Latin America.
Financial Investment
The Hunger Project is funded primarily by the contributions of committed individuals around the world. These individuals think of this not as charity but as an investment — an investment in a new future for all humanity. Hunger Project investors are stakeholders in the end of hunger, expressing their solidarity and partnership with the hungry people who are on the front lines of ending hunger. |
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Contact Information
http://www.thp.org
Members: Send contact or program updates to Taina Alexander, Membership Program Manager.
Related Documents
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Categories
Countries of Focus: Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, India, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Uganda
Program Areas, Sector: Agriculture, Civil Society, Strengthening of, Education, HIV/AIDS, Information and Communication, Policy Research and Analysis, Public Policy and Advocacy, Rural Development, Social Development
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