Kent R. Hill, Senior Vice President, World Vision on Friday, May 10th 2013

The development field has been exploring for years ways to harness the power of technology to benefit those in need, especially mobile technology, which can reach people in remote areas who need food, health, education, and other assistance quickly and well.

Earlier this year, in the State of the Union address, President Obama called upon us to join the world in ending extreme poverty in the next two decades. It was an extraordinary moment, as the President set forth a vision for one of the greatest contributions to human progress in history.

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The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially developed as a tool to reflect women’s empowerment that may result from the United States government’s Feed the Future Initiative, which commissioned the development of the WEAI. The WEAI can also be used more generally to assess the state of empowerment and gender parity in agriculture, to identify key areas in which empowerment needs to be strengthened, and to track progress over time.

U.S. Mission Uganda and the Embassy of Sweden today announced their first-ever joint Loan Portfolio Guarantee Agreement in Uganda. This joint Agreement, with Centenary Bank Uganda Limited, will significantly expand access to credit for the private health sector, and bring more affordable and high-quality medical care to more Ugandans.

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This is the final Central African Republic fact sheet for FY 2012.

KEY DEVELOPMENTS

• On September 1, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels abducted 19 civilians and killed two in southeastern Central African Republic (CAR). The ongoing threat of violence and abduction as a result of LRA presence in southeastern CAR and active armed groups in northern areas of the country has displaced nearly 27,000 people in 2012, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

KAMPALA – The U.S. Mission Uganda, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, and other development partners today marked a significant milestone in evidence-based planning with the launch of the 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (2011 UDHS) at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala. The U.S.

1) Above-average rains observed in western Sudan and eastern Chad during the past thirty days have caused localized flash floods. With additional heavy rain forecast for the next week, localized flash flooding could occur.