Preventable child deaths outrage everyone. Immunization campaigns save millions of children’s lives and therefore unite widely divergent communities. But the untapped potential for partnerships to extend vaccination coverage, ...

A global program to combat malaria has attracted major international funding and is showing promising progress. A wide range of faith actors (notably major faith-inspired organizations and community leaders well-primed on ...

Pinpointing corruption’s perils, measuring its gravity, and pursuing governance strategies and action programs are high priorities in contemporary development work. Over the past two decades, citizen outrage, increasingly ...

Water, indisputably essential to health and well-being, livelihoods, humanitarian operations, and all human activity, is a central element in all development policies and programs. Water is also an integral part of rituals ...

Poor coordination of development assistance is a lively issue on global agendas today. Faith-inspired organizations (FIOs) are part of the broader challenge, with the distinctive feature that they frequently elude or are ...

Faith-inspired organizations (FIOs) and communities are important providers of healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa (as in other world regions). Quality can be high and the focus is often on serving the very poor and marginalized, ...

As a hotspot for human trafficking, Cambodia has received intensive media coverage and international attention as a global human rights challenge. Trafficking takes many forms but sexual exploitation of women, girls, and ...

Religious institutions and leaders can and should contribute more directly to global and national efforts to address shockingly high levels of maternal mortality in the poorest countries. There is untapped potential for ...

In Southeast Asia’s diverse religious landscape, religion tends to be taken for granted except when it contributes to social strife and violence. Religious actors do, however, play critical social, political, and economic ...