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Baby-Friendly Farms

This poster explains how CRS is helping women practice exclusive breastfeeding and improve their nutrition through baby-friendly farms to reduce infant morbidity and mortality in Sierra Leone.

[August 2010]

Using Vouchers in Burkina Faso

This poster looks at how CRS is using a voucher-based response to respond to rising food prices, flood, and drought in Burkina Faso.

Agroenterprise Learning Alliance for southern and eastern Africa

CRS has been working with new technical partners who use a wide range of approaches, methods, and tools for linking smallholder farmers to markets. This meeting will review different methodologies, assess strengths and gaps, and agree on a format for a new learning alliance.

[June 2009]

Education for all means orphans and vulnerable children

One of the biggest constraints to achieving education for all is the increasing number of children who cannot attend school because of the HIV pandemic. In Lesotho, CRS is implementing the Mountain Orphans and Vulnerable children Empowerment (MOVE) project to address the multiple needs of these children. Three-quarters of Lesotho’s 1.8 million people live in [...]

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[March 2009]

Education how-to: Child-Led Health Education

How-To Guide: Ghana

Examines methods of mobilizing children as leaders in the effort to create more healthful school environments and communities.

The way to students’ minds is through their school canteens

Access to education is a human right.  In Benin, however, challenges to achieving universal primary education persist.  In rural areas, low enrollment and attendance rates are due to a number of factors.  Families living in poverty are unable to afford to send their children to school.  Although the government has eliminated primary school fees, parents [...]

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[March 2009]

Water for life

For too many people, gaining access to water is a daily struggle. In rural Malawi, CRS is working to change that situation, partnering with CADECOM to drill wells in rural villages. 

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[March 2009]
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    This publication highlights promising practices in increasing case detection and treatment rates as documented in the Maguindanao TB Control Project. It chronicles how community groups have contributed to addressing the


    Seed system security

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    A practical manual for assessing the security of farmers’ seed systems in situations of acute or chronic stress and determining what kinds of assistance are needed.


    Loan Products for Poor Rural Communities

    Microfinance Learning Paper series

    Examines key lessons learned by Metemamen MF, a microfinance partner of CRS Ethiopia, during the pilot testing of a new loan product designed for rural poor farmers.



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