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  • Nigeria's Self-Care Policy Expands Women's Reproductive Choices

    October 07, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Nasarawa

    Thanks to Nigeria’s Self-Care Policy, residents can access free injectable contraceptives that can be administered without the support of health workers. Patients learn how to use the injectable during their first appointment at a health center and are then able to take up to a year of doses with them to administer independently each month at home. Since 2014, when the self-injectables were first introduced, the country’s rate of contraceptive prevalence has risen from 4% to 15%.

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  • Bridging Gaps in Women's Health: Niger State's Push for Better Access to Family Planning

    October 07, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

    The Niger State Health Care Fund offers a voucher program that helps cover the cost of antenatal care and family planning services for women in rural areas and IDP camps. The voucher scheme, alongside community engagement programs and technological resources, has improved access to contraceptives and reproductive health services, but the state’s rate of contraceptive prevalence is still below the national average.

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  • Small farmers are more squeezed than ever. A California grant program offers a lifeline.

    October 03, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California's farm-to-school grant program, launched in 2021, has successfully directed 100% of its funding to small and disadvantaged farmers. This has helped them expand their businesses through investments like refrigerated vans and partnerships with food hubs, enabling fresh local produce delivery to schools across the state.

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  • Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

    September 27, 2025 |

    ProPublica |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    In the wake of disasters like Hurricane Helene, FEMA is tasked with dispensing aid, including rental assistance and funding for home repairs. But in six of the 10 North Carolina counties most affected by the storm, the lowest-income households received less aid that households in the highest income tier, raising concerns about equity and the agency’s onerous application process.

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  • What It Takes To Keep Kentucky's Black-Led Farms Alive

    September 26, 2025 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Black Soil, a nonprofit organization founded in 2017, supports Kentucky's Black farmers through direct investment, grant assistance, and market connections while bridging information gaps that prevent farmers from accessing existing government programs.

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  • Budgeting for Equality: How Local Councils in Cameroon are Including Women

    September 24, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Cameroon

    Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) in Cameroon requires local councils to include women in budget planning and allocate resources to meet their specific needs, resulting in over 500 women in Tiko and Limbe councils gaining access to market infrastructure improvements, vocational training, agricultural support, and business grants that have enabled them to generate income and support their families.

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  • « Il faut des mois pour que le palais des enfants s'habitue au fait maison » : la ferme municipale, une nouvelle conception du service public

    September 11, 2025 |

    Le Nouvel Obs |

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    Response Location: France

    Afin d'introduire davantage de produits bio dans les cantines scolaires, les crèches, les épiceries sociales et les restaurants d’Ehpad, certaines communes créent des fermes publiques pour les approvisionner. À Mouans-Sartoux, dans les Alpes-Maritimes, 90 % des légumes servis dans les écoles sont cultivés par la ville.

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  • Can filtering seawater provide for a thirsty world?

    September 08, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Morocco

    Morocco's implementation of seawater desalination plants has successfully provided drinking water to 1.6 million people and enabled record agricultural exports for large-scale tomato producers, while simultaneously revealing the technology's limitations in addressing broader water needs due to high costs, geographic constraints, and environmental impacts that benefit only well-funded farms near coastal facilities.

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  • Billions spent, miles to go: The story of California's failure to build high-speed rail

    September 08, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California's troubled high-speed rail project—hampered by inexperienced management, inadequate upfront funding, and poor route selection—demonstrates why successful infrastructure mega-projects require experienced agencies, full financing commitments, and streamlined implementation strategies.

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  • « Ici, je suis moins tentée par les cochonneries de tête de gondole » : dans cette épicerie, on peut être au RSA et manger bien

    September 08, 2025 |

    Le Nouvel Obs |

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    Response Location: France, Villeneuve-d'Ascq

    Aux épiceries éphémères installés par l’association Vers un Réseau d’Achat en Commun (Vrac), les résidents des quartiers populaires peuvent accéder à des aliments biologiques de haute qualité à prix réduit. Il y a 124 de ces épiceries dans toute la France et plus de 10 000 foyers adhérents.

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