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On Jan. 24, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Reinforcing Education Accountability in Development (READ) Act (H.R. 601). The bill, which has essentially the same language as the Education for All Act of 2016, provides accountability for existing U.S. efforts to improve quality basic education in developing and war-torn countries.
Australia's foreign aid program has seen many changes since it first became a single government agency in the 1970s. Besides the name, changes have taken place within the program's administration, its focus, the countries that receive aid and the type of aid provided. Australia provided aid to other countries well before there was an official government program.
In October, the World Bank released a new report called Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016: Taking on Inequality, which provides the latest global poverty figures. This is the first in a series that the organization plans on releasing annually.
On Dec. 6, 2016, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released the first post-Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report, 2016 Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Insecurity - Investing in a Zero Hunger Generation.
The nonprofit organization Opportunity International is fighting poverty through job creation. Its goal is to create and sustain 20 million jobs by the year 2020 in an effort to end global poverty. Founded in 1971 by Al Whittaker and David Bussau, Opportunity International helps people in developing countries work their way out of poverty by providing them with small business loans, savings accounts, insurance and training.
Smallholders are small-scale farmers with less than two hectares (2.471 acres) of farmland. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO), "smallholders provide up to 80 percent of the food supply in Asian and sub-Saharan Africa."
UGANDA - The Mobile Vital Records System (VRS) is among the newest technologies in Uganda. Its goal is to raise the rate of birth registrations in the country. According to a 2014 World Bank report, Uganda's fertility rate is 5.8 births per woman, one of the highest in the world.
Malawi is a country in southeast Africa with a population of more than 17 million people. Of those, 6.5 million require food assistance. In southern Africa, it is the country with the largest number of people facing extreme hunger.