Pulte Institute researchers find connections between improved cookstoves and reduced domestic violence in Uganda
An article co-authored by Pulte Institute researchers has been published in World Development Perspectives.
An article co-authored by Pulte Institute researchers has been published in World Development Perspectives.
The Pulte Institute for Global Development congratulates Dr. Paul Perrin, Director of the Institute’s Evidence and Learning Division, on his appointment as Associate Professor of the Practice within the Keough School of Global Affairs.
The LASER PULSE consortium and the QED’s Center for Global data Visualization (CGDV) recently announced the winners of the ‘Visualizing Venezuelan Migration Issues in Colombia’ Hackathon. Co-organized by the Pulte Insitute, the first place prize went to a group of four graduate students from the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
University of Notre Dame faculty shared recommendations for strategic monitoring and evaluation within fragile states at an April 14 virtual roundtable hosted by the Keough School of Global Affairs and the US Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations.
2017 Mandela Washington Fellow Alfred Kankuzi is taking action to help stop disinformation and provide potentially life-saving information to his fellow Malawians. In early April, Alfred discovered that most Malawians were learning about COVID-19 through social media, which was causing more confusion, fear and panic, and saw an opportunity to create an app that could break local language barriers and provide accurate information to as many people in Malawi as possible.
Dr. Rahul Oka, Research Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Anthropology, and the Pulte Institute produced policy recommendations for USAID's Research Technical Assistance Center, to help them understand the personal, economic, and social complexities that may affect refugee and host community self-sufficiency.
As millions of people retreat into their homes in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic, many women have added teacher, daycare provider, remote worker, and nurse to their daily repertoire. It has been argued that the implications of lockdown - especially when more people become symptomatic - will disproportionately affect women and their work productivity. In times of uncertainty, change, and anxiety it can be asked: who bears the burden at home? Estela Rivero explores this question.
Raymond C. Offenheiser, the William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development and Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Keough School of Global Affairs, reflects on Norman Borlaug's work in an interview with PBS's American Experience.
The Pulte Institute for Global Development, part of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, has received a $1.4 million grant cooperative agreement from the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Food for Peace to conduct a long-term evaluation of its principal food security programs in Bangladesh.
The project is an effort to combat the rise of coordinated social media campaigns to incite violence, sow discord and threaten the integrity of democratic elections.
In accordance with new University procedures, meant to safeguard the health and well-being of members of our community, the Pulte Institute is making alternative arrangements to continue our central work of education and research. The Pulte Institute will remain open virtually to ensure the continuity of our services in the best ways possible.
Due to the University of Notre Dame's decision to suspend all in-person classes through April 13, the Pulte Institute has made the difficult decision to cancel all public-facing events scheduled from now through April 13. This includes the Gary Gereffi Public Talk 'Where in the World Has Development Gone' originally scheduled for April 1.
The Pulte Institute for Global Development will welcome Gary Gereffi, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Director of the Global Value Chains Center at Duke University, to campus for a public talk on Wednesday, April 1, 12:30 - 1:30 pm in 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls. The event will be hosted by Scott Appleby, the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs.
The Pulte Institute for Global Development, part of the Keough School for Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, is proud to announce its selection as an Institute Partner for the 2020 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Beginning in mid-June, the Pulte Institute will host 25 of Africa’s bright, emerging Business leaders for a six-week Leadership Institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
Four of Notre Dame’s 2019 cohort of Mandela Washington Fellows have received grant funding for their developing businesses.
The University of Notre Dame has developed a variety of tools to address the problems of the poor and to develop and measure the impact of anti-poverty programs. Now, thanks to a $111 million partnership between the University and the Pulte Family Charitable Foundation — the largest of its kind at Notre Dame — the University is positioned to enhance and expand its practices, teaching and research to create, identify and advance programs that best serve those most in need. The endowments provided by the foundation to Notre Dame will focus on serving those most in need, the most alienated and the most displaced.
NDIGD has launched its new NDIGD Faculty Fellows program, with 100 interdisciplinary Notre Dame faculty committed to five-year terms through 2024.
An article, co-authored in part by two NDIGD researchers, which examines the relationship between two social protective factors and violence involvement among Honduran young adults, has been published in Development in Practice.
An article, co-authored by an NDIGD researcher, which examines the voter registration habits of young, newly eligible Mexican citizens, has been published in the electronic journal, Coyuntura Demográfica.