Bread For The World Institute Inc

Programs: Public education: in november 2014, bread for the world institute held a press event to launch its 2015 hunger report: when women flourish we can end hunger, which explains why ending discrimination against women and girls is crucial to ending hunger. The report was developed with representatives of many church bodies and agencies. It is a strong statement on women's empowerment and its importance to progress against hunger. At the launch, we unveiled an interactive data visualization that graphically depicts the vast gaps in data on the status of women across indicators and regions. The tool was created by a group of volunteers who have expertise in working with data sets, computer programming, visualizations, and multimedia. They pulled the information together during a "hackathon. " the tool was highlighted in a hewlett foundation blog post on the report and made a list of 10 significant visualizations. The launch generated more than 208 million media impressions from 116 media placements. Media coverage included reports by voice of america, pbs religion and ethics weekly, agripulse, florida radio network and north carolina news network. The institute also participated in numerous speaking events, including speaking on global food security and nutrition at george mason university, fairfax, va and to students and faculty of central academy in des moines, iowa. In addition, the institute hosted a number of groups in 2014, mostly student groups visiting washington.

outreach and advocacy: bread for the world institute continues its analysis and education on immigration issues. The institute supports comprehensive immigration reform, with a focus on those elements of reform that will reduce hunger and poverty and that include a pathway to citizenship. Bread for the world institute is also working with coalition partners, mainly the evangelical immigration table and the interfaith immigration council, on grassroots engagement. The institute hosted a meeting of the evangelical immigration table in september to develop new strategies for evangelical advocacy and grassroots actions on immigration. Bread for the world institute partnered with its nutrition stakeholder partners on the first ever global nutrition report (gnr), which provides a comprehensive narrative and analysis on the state of the world's nutrition. The institute hosted the executive director of the northern organization of social empowerment in kenya, a recipient of the u. S. Government's mandela washington fellowship for young african leaders, for an 8-week fellowship from august to september. The institute participated in the 2014 world food prize events in october with world leaders and advocates from around the world, who met to discuss opportunities for and challenges to feeding the world sustainably. This included speaking on a panel organized by the u. N. Food and agriculture organization (fao). Thanks partly to bread for the world institute advocacy, the u. S. Government issued a new strategy to support progress against maternal-child malnutrition in poor countries - shifting resources to evidence-based, high-impact approaches. Bread for the world institute has been a key leader on this issue in the united states and globally since 2008.

public policy: usaid released its nutrition strategy 2014 - 2025 in may. The institute first recommended that usaid produce such a strategy in a 2012 briefing paper and was deeply engaged in its development. This strategy will improve the effectiveness of programs to deliver improved nutrition for mothers and children in the first 1,000 days between pregnancy and age 2. Bread for the world institute has also co-led an international coalition to integrate nutrition into the post-2015 development framework that will succeed the u. N. Millennium development goals. A major step in this process was the u. N. Open working group's report in 2014, which recommended a stand-alone goal to end hunger and malnutrition. In november asma lateef, director of bread for the world institute, spoke at the second international conference on nutrition. The institute and coalition partners are now engaging advocates in low-income countries to help make the case for nutrition in the final version of the sustainable development goals. Bread for the world institute and our partners led a discussion about the state of low-wage working families in america and what the faith community and congress can do to support just wages and the dignity of working families. Participants shared ideas for how we can promote stronger families through public policy like the minimum wage and pro-family economic policy. Bread for the world institute participated in the 67th session of the world health assembly in geneva in may in the "food and nutrition security in the post-2015 development agenda," which focused on a specific health agenda prepared by the world health organization's executive board. The institute has continued to push to strengthen the focus on maternal and child nutrition in u. S. International development policy.