Nkosana Masuku and Ludmila Mero, members of Notre Dame’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) 2021 class, were recognized at last week’s International Symposium on Climate Change and Governance in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the new startup companies they founded.…
“To reach universal access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene by 2030, the current rates of progress would need to increase fourfold,” the United Nations says. The Keough School’s Sustainability and Human Rights Initiative (SHRI) is working to achieve that goal.
SHRI will present on its efforts to combat water insecurity and enhance human flourishing at the United Nations Water Conference on March 22-24, 2023 in New York.…
Water scarcity now threatens the health and development of communities around the globe. And climate change intensifies the problem, pushing governments to find more innovative, collaborative ways to address water stress. That’s why we need new metrics to monitor and assess Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene or WASH interventions, says Pulte Institute Evidence and Learning Associate Director Danice Brown Guzmán.
It has been 20 years since the United States and its allies invaded Iraq in their “war on terror.” What the U.S. sold as a grim but necessary surgical strike for democracy and stability in the Middle East worsened the conditions in which women and children live.
Deepening poverty and weakened state institutions made women and girls more vulnerable to exploitation and is just one consequence of the devastation. Through their research and interviews with Iraqi women and activists, Keough School Professor Emeritus …
The devastating toll offers a stark reminder of the urgent need for global communities to strengthen infrastructure to withstand natural hazards like typhoons and earthquakes.
In December, Afghanistan’s Taliban regime ordered all non-governmental groups to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. This “gender apartheid” also devastates Afghan hunger and health.
Earthquakes and tsunamis, referred to among humanitarians as “rapid onset disasters,” strike suddenly on a massive scale, leaving widespread death and destruction and overwhelming local and national response capacities.
Think of the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, killing at least 225,000 people across a dozen countries, or the Haiti earthquake of 2010, which left more than 230,000 people dead and 1.3 million homeless. Or the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 that caused the deaths of over 50,000 people.…
This summer, 25 of the brightest young minds from Sub-Saharan Africa will participate in a six-week fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. It’s the 10th year the Pulte Institute for Global Development has served as an institute partner for the Mandela Washington Fellowship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
With heavy hearts, we remember Andrew J. McKenna Sr., a 1951 Notre Dame graduate who generously supported the McKenna Center and its ‘South Bend Entrepreneurship and Adversity Boot Camp’ for budding entrepreneurs.
At the Pulte Institute, we’re focused on identifying and resolving the systemic causes of the border crisis — versus just dealing with its effects. We believe our comprehensive approach, to provide information through rigorous research that is accessible and usable, will help policymakers implement significant and sustainable change to improve outcomes along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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On November 18th, The Pulte Institute for Global Development, in partnership with the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, hosted a book talk for “Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty.”
Five Notre Dame experts, including three from the Keough School, recently presented new research at the United Nations that offers guidance on how industries can sustainably manage water resources and preserve human access to safe, clean water.
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” – Plutarch
A recently published article, titled “Behavior of Private Retailers in a Regulated Input Market: An Empirical Analysis of the Fertilizer Subsidy Policy in Nepal” has been co-authored by Shriniwas Gautam, evidence and learning associate with the University of Notre Dame’s Pulte Institute for Global Development.
What do you consider to be a “life-changing” moment? For Ambrose Kamya of Uganda, it was the moment he was accepted into the Mandela Washington Fellowship program and placed at the University of Notre Dame.
In an article published by USA Today, Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Acting Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development and engineering professor at the University of Notre Dame, remarks on hurricane recovery efforts and the role that building codes play in damage mitigation.
In an article published by Newsweek, Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Acting Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development and engineering professor at the University of Notre Dame, shared her team’s findings on how buildings that were up-to-date on building codes weathered Hurricane Ian better than those which were out-of-date.
In an article published by WalletHub, Paul Perrin, Evidence and Learning Director at the Pulte Institute for Global Development, remarks on the roles of—and possible steps for—local authorities, the media, and educational institutions in the struggle to increase vaccination rates in the US.
On August 24, 2022, legal, governance, and water experts from the University of Notre Dame, in partnership with BHP—an Australian-based multinational mining company—presented an actionable framework for the proactive implementation of the right to water during World Water Week.