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Job Opportunity:InterAction Senior Advocacy Associate

InterAction seeks a Senior Advocacy Associate to facilitate advocacy among InterAction members to promote InterAction’s public policy goals.  He/she will establish and maintain relationships with members of InterAction’s Public Policy Committee (PPC) and coordinate advocacy activities including direct lobbying and grasstops lobbying for the PPC and other working groups as needed. 
 

Job Opportunity: 4-H Africa Managing Director

The Global Clover Network, a subsidiary of National 4-H Council (USA) seeks a policy professional to lead Africa focused policy development for youth in agriculture for Global Clover initiatives. A key role of this position will be to work with the public and private sectors in African countries where 4-H is currently operational to help shape policies that influence the role of youth in agriculture and development in Africa, through policy, research, analysis, and recommendations.
 

Job Opportunity: 4-H Africa Program Director

The Global Clover Network, a subsidiary of National 4-H Council (USA), seeks an experienced international youth and/or agricultural development professional to implement Africa focused strategies for the Global Clover initiatives. A key role will be to build the capacity and capabilities of 4-H professionals and volunteers in 5 African country-led 4-H organizations (Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and Ethiopia) and to deliver high quality Positive Youth Development (PYD) programs.
 

New McKinsey Report: "Urban World: Cities and the Rise of the Consuming Class"

A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, Urban world: Cities and the rise of the consuming class, documents the growing power of cities and the global consuming class. Understanding and responding to shifting urban marketplaces may yield tremendous benefits for African smallholders, as participants discussed in the Partnership's recent US-Africa Forum.

Win for Ag in Los Cabos: Introducing the AgResults Development Initiative - Kimberly Ann Elliott, CGD Blog

The G20 leaders at the summit in Los Cabos, Mexico are no doubt focused on the global economic slowdown and ongoing Eurozone crisis, but an ad hoc group of donors took time on Monday to announce the launch of a concrete development deliverable...

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