Michael Sweikar, the executive director of NDIGD, recently joined other U.S. global leaders on Capitol Hill to advocate for the United States to continue to play a global leadership role through development and diplomacy.
The conference will convene thought leaders from the private sector, international NGOs, foundations, academia and local, state and federal governments to delve into topics such as smart cities and urban innovation.
Sofía del Valle, a Master of Global Affairs Student in the Keough School, has been awarded the first Raymond C. Offenheiser Fellowship for Active Citizenship, created in honor of Ray Offenheiser, director of NDIGD.
“On behalf of the University of Notre Dame, I extend my deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims in the Sri Lanka attacks."
Two NDIGD staff members rebuke the Trump administration's March 30 decision to cut foreign aid to several Central American countries in an op-ed published by The Hill.
NDIGD's new Paul G. Hoffman Policy and Practice Visiting Associates Program seeks to bring leading experts on global policy and practice to Notre Dame to write evidence-based, strategic publications.
“On behalf of the University of Notre Dame, I extend my deepest condolences to the families and friends of the shooting victims in Christchurch, and to their extended family among the Muslim students, faculty and staff here at Notre Dame and in South Bend.
“In this season of Lent, we offer…
NDIGD has been selected as an institute partner for the 2019 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Beginning in mid-June, NDIGD will host 25 of Africa’s bright, emerging business leaders for a six-week leadership institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
A researcher at NDIGD has co-authored two policy briefs on gender economic equity, which were recently published by Think20 (T20) Argentina at the 2018 G20 summit.
The Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) has completed a new, five-year strategic plan, which will be implemented between the years of 2019 and 2024.
Two years ago, Germán Santillan Ugarte was part of Notre Dame's inaugural class of YLAI Professional Fellows. In 2018, he returned to Notre Dame—"a second home," as he calls it—and took some time to talk about his own positive experience in the program.
Fordham University Press has published a new book on policies and programs aimed at reducing crime and violence in Central America by Tom Hare, a senior technical associate at the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD).
Rick and Molly Klau have made a $1 million endowment gift to the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development for the development of a new student fellowship program and new academic courses, all focused on social innovation, entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship.
The University of Notre Dame will welcome 14 new business and social entrepreneurs from across Latin America and the Caribbean for the 2018 Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program.
NDIGD will initially receive approximately $1.75 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as the only U.S. partner on two separate research-assistance consortiums established to support higher education in developing countries.
An article, co-authored by an NDIGD researcher, which explores the results of a study on the quality of bagged sachet water in rural communities in Ghana, has been published in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
An article, co-authored by Paul Perrin, the monitoring and evaluation director at NDIGD and a concurrent associate professor of practice in the Keough School of Global Affairs, has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Social Science & Medicine.
University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and some 100 guests from across the University and the greater South Bend area convened in Jenkins Nanovic Halls on June 21 to welcome the 2018 Mandela Washington Fellows to campus.
The Integration Lab at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs is sending teams of Master of Global Affairs students to 13 countries this summer to research and help address a range of pressing global challenges.
In a conversation with Ray Offenheiser, NDIGD's director, on Thursday night (April 12) at the University of Notre Dame, Muhammad Yunus explained why he has devoted his life’s work to social entrepreneurship.