Why we need to prioritize global energy access. And how to do it.

Last Friday marked 1,000 days until we reach the end of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – and to celebrate, the UN Foundation launched Momentum1000, a global digital rally to raise awareness and spark action around the MDGs. ONE joined the event by hosting a Twitter chat with ONE Global Policy Director Ben Leo, who

World Health Day, this Sunday, April 7, marks a time to for us to reflect on some immense achievements that have been accomplished in global health in the past years. Coinciding with the last 1,000 days before the 2015 expiration date of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is also a time to think about where we’re heading in the years – and decades – to come.

In 1000 days from now, the Millennium Development Goals will run out. When world leaders set these eight big challenges back in 2000, there was a huge amount of work to do. Halving extreme poverty, giving every child an education, and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS were just a few of the targets. But these aren’t just numbers, they are milions of people’s lives, potentially changed forever.

It is very easy for governments to make commitments aimed at addressing societal challenges, but delivering on such commitments by transforming them into action can be a challenge. It is imperative for non-state actors, and the public at large, to challenge governments when they fail to deliver on their commitments if public investment is to have a positive and sustainable impact on societal challenges like hunger, food insecurity and poverty. Robust and credible empirical evidence is necessary to hold governments to account for their commitments.

Edith Jibunoh, ONE’s director for multilateral institutions, is reporting from the UN High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Bali, Indonesia, where she joined a team of ONE members in delivering your post-MDG petition signatures to world leaders.  Almost 15 years ago, as a young(er) diasporan African, I started working on my first developing country

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

Our guest blogger today is musician and ONE member Slap Dee, who helped to launch the You Choose campaign in Zambia this week. In 2000, leaders from 189 nations signed on to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight targets designed to significantly reduce global poverty and disease by 2015.  In Zambia, we

Yesterday, 210 ONE members stormed Capitol Hill for Lobby Day, attending nearly 175 meetings with members of Congress to urge them to protect our life-saving programs for the world’s poorest people. Lobby Day is the crown jewel of the the 2013 ONE Power Summit. After three days of learning about ONE’s issues, sharing best practices

Lauren Pfeifer wrote up a great article outlining how programs like GAVI and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria have helped make progress on our poverty-fighting plan, the UN Millennium Development Goals, last week. Her article outlined the hard facts – but at the end of the day, we know that seeing