This week, we celebrate integration. Though it is intrinsically at the heart of what we and our partners do in addressing myriad global health challenges through thoughtful, efficient strategies, today integration is particularly at the fore. For the very first time, there is a global plan to simultaneously take on the two diseases killing more than 2 million young children each year: pneumonia and diarrhea.

The Integrated Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD), released last week by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, provides the latest strategies and evidence needed to reduce death and illness from the two leading killer diseases among children. Beyond integration across the two diseases, the GAPPD is an opportunity to meld global and local agendas, giving national governments a comprehensive tool to determine the specific plans, investments and partners needed to address the unique needs of their countries and achieve the greatest health impact for their citizens.

March 8 marks International Women’s Day, a celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women for their economic, political and social achievements. We wanted to join the worldwide celebration by creating a photo set that champions the beauty and strength of women in Africa. The women that compose the African landscape vary in occupation from farmers

I’m sure a lot of you heard about Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old girl activist from Pakistan who was shot by the Taliban this week for standing up for the right to be educated. The Taliban targeted her for “propagating” Western culture and promoting education, which they called an “obscenity.” This tragedy couldn’t have come at

“You can’t marginalize more than half of the globe’s population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.” Those powerful words are from Dr. Helene Gayle, President and CEO of CARE and a member of ONE’s board of directors, about the critical need to put women and girls at

Earlier this year, a healthy little Bangladeshi girl named Morsheda celebrated her fifth birthday surrounded by her family and friends. The candles on her cake were a symbol not only of her personal celebration but also of the hope we can all have that malnutrition can be beat. Morsheda and her birthday are proof that

Paige Harrigan, Nutrition Adviser for Save the Children, gets personal about the impact of frontline health workers. Jealousy? That wasn’t an emotion I was expecting on a regular field visit to rural Bangladesh a few years ago. I was the middle-class American nutritionist in a country I’d grown to love. They were women of very

This blog post was written by Kathleen Lay. Women are a formidable economic force across emerging markets in Africa, yet their role in economic production remains largely unrecognized. Their continued inability to access and control economic and social capital assets and resources has been a central factor in perpetuating Africa’s poverty trap and keeping the

This post by Kadiatu Blango was kindly provided by the Restless Development My name is Kadiatu, I am 20 and have two daughters. I had my second child when I was 18. Like every mother, I want the very best for my children and do everything I can for them, but I worry that it

This blog post was originally published on Landesa’s website. Although women play an indispensable role in the rural economy, they face severe constraints in accessing the agricultural assets and services they need to maximize their production. It has become increasingly clear that there is a “gender gap” in resources such as land, technology, and extension

Action: 54. Time: 5 minutes. Level of difficulty: Easy. Here’s another reason to get excited about the Olympics: At the end of the Games on August 12, British Prime Minister David Cameron will challenge global leaders to step up efforts to improve nutrition and decrease stunting among the world’s poorest children between now and the

ONE Mom Rachel Fox explains why you should join USAID’s Every Child Deserves a Fifth Birthday campaign. How much do you remember before the age of five? There is always the friend who says they remember every detail, but I think for most of us, those memories are cloudy. It’s the pictures we see and

ONE Member Kirk Vaclavik reports on the 1,000 Days Summit on child undernutrition, which took place last week in Chicago. If you could go back in time, what would you change? You might learn a foreign language while your brain was young. Maybe you would turn around at the door of that tattoo parlor. There

What would you do if you had $75 billion and four years to improve the world’s well-being? Recently 65 world-renowned researchers, economists and Nobel laureates got together and answered that question. They released their findings yesterday after more than a year of reviewing proposals and evidence, thanks to the Copenhagen Consensus Center. Being economists, they

Victoria Quinn, senior vice president of programs at Helen Keller International discusses why a child’s first 1,000 days of life are the most important. This piece was republished from the Huffington Post with permission from the author. There is a time in a child’s life that has a profound impact on her ability to grow,

This post was published with the permission of the author on the Chicago Council’s Global Food for Thought blog. For many Moms, their biggest wish on Mother’s Day is to hear those special three little words from their children: I Love You. For the mothers and women farmers of Africa, they also dearly wish to