Almost every week on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition’s blog, someone from our 30 member organizations tells another story illustrating the inspiring and tremendous impact frontline health workers are making in saving and improving lives around the world. What might not be as well known is that, according to USAID, 0.0000087 percent of the US budget in 2011 went to global health programs, including programs that help thousands of frontline health workers save millions of lives.

In light of the UN High Level Panel’s meeting in Bali, Indonesia this week, Don Steinberg’s talk at Georgetown University, “The Path to Ending Extreme Poverty: the new rules of the road for development cooperation”, is more timely than ever. Photo caption: Don Steinberg. Photo credit: Human Rights Commission, Flickr This week’s UN High Level Panel

Efficient. Transparent. Effective. Those are some of our favorite words at ONE. It’s how taxpayer dollars should be spent, here at home and on life-saving programs around the globe. Photo credit: USAID, Flickr It only makes sense that the United States’ primary poverty-fighting organization embody those principles in the programs it supports and within its

What if you could take a fraction of a penny and use it to help build a health system? Believe it. It takes only a fraction of a single penny per American taxpayer dollar to train a global health workforce—a workforce that will reach millions through treatment, prevention and counseling services.

Over the past few years, so many apps have popped up that there are thousands of jokes about it. In the development space, many of these apps are filling different vacuums. Some provide information that has the potential to make development more transparent, others facilitiate feedback loops where they wouldn’t have existed before, or provide information that allows citizens to hold elected officials accountable.

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation‘s President and CEO Charles Lyons shares his experience in the Kingdom in the Sky. I have just returned from the Kingdom of Lesotho, a country entirely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa; a country that’s about the size of  Maryland, but has a strong reputation for providing important lessons

Wondering how gender equality and land rights are linked? Women, not men, are primarily responsible for agricultural production and cultivation in the developing world. Without rights to land, women are unable to feed themselves and their families, and provide access to shelter, food, education and medical care as a result. Parakuo Naimodu, mother of 11

ONE Faith Manager Marisa Vertrees discusses the importance of the combined effort of foreign assistance and faith-based missions. My first trip to the Dominican Republic was an eye-opening experience. I traveled there to visit my church’s mission in Banica, directly on the Haitian border. While many people think of the Dominican Republic as a land of

ONE Mum blogger Jennifer Howze is traveling in Ethiopia with ONE this October. This piece, originally published on Brit Mums Blog, is part of our ongoing coverage of the trip. Photo: Michelle and I getting ready for a day of site visits. It’s been about two weeks since Michelle Pannell and I returned from Ethiopia

University of Michigan and ONE Campus Volunteer Michelle DiMuzio reports event with USAID Administrator Raj Shah co-hosted by ONE at the University of Michigan and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. When I got accepted at the University of Michigan (UofM) last year, I have to say I was a skeptic. As an

Ever since ONE members started submitting recipes to our Digital Sweet Potato Cookbook, I’ve been searching for that perfect dish to cook and write about for the ONE Blog. It had to be something simple, healthy and versatile. So, when I saw USAID Administrator Raj Shah’s family recipe for rainbow hash browns, I knew I

Last week, I had the opportunity to meet USAID Nutrition Division Chief Anne Peniston at a meeting on global nutrition hosted by 1,000 Days, an organization focused on promoting nutrition during the critical period of life between conception and two years of age. Anne has worked in US and international public health for more than

This great blog post from Landesa highlights a new promise by the Maasai elders of Kenya. Dozens of Maasai elders in the Kenyan highlands, who serve as symbols and enforcers of their community’s conservative cultural traditions, have vowed to uphold an entirely new tradition: equal rights for women and girls in every aspect of their

Casual readers of grocery store tabloids are familiar with the trend of celebrity couple name mashups, bringing us the likes of Brangelina and TomKat. But a different name was overheard in the hallways of the Child Survival Call to Action last week: “Benary”. The moniker was coined by our friend John Fawcett at RESULTS after

The five current and former female presidents and the panel’s host, Judy Woodruff, a senior correspondent for PBS. Source: USAID This week USAID hosted the Frontiers in Development Forum, an opportunity for leading figures in the world of international development to discuss new, innovative, and successful solutions to development problems. I was particularly impressed with