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Family Planning Strengthens Agency for Women, Youth in Zimbabwe

Audrey Galawu

October 07, 2025 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council focuses on improving maternal health outcomes by providing reproductive health and family planning resources, including contraception and educational counseling, at clinics, local health facilities, and community organizations. Since 2010, the country’s maternal mortality rate has fallen and the rate of married women using modern contraceptives has reached 69%.

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

Yecenu Sasetu

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

Abujah Racheal

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.

Frida Garza

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

Jennifer Berry Hawes , Ren Larson

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

Anabel Peterman

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

Lucrece Armande

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

Emilie Brouze

September 11, 2025 |

Le Nouvel Obs |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

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?

Chico Harlan, Nada Talbi

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

Benton Graham

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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