Resources

Please see the following links for more resources provided by USAID: Administrator Shah National Prayer Breakfast 2014 Remarks http://www.usaid.gov/news-information/speeches/feb-6-2014-administrator-rajiv-shah-national-prayer-breakfast Mission Statement http://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/mission-vision-values News Story/Interview with Alex Thier http://ncronline.org/news/global/forum-outlines-strategies-end-extreme-poverty-worldwide

The aim of this Toolkit is to help lower the discomfort of USAID staff in making the analytical and programmatic connections between conflict, religion and peacebuilding. The Key Issues section provides additional arguments for why development practitioners should—and can—address religion…

http://www.usaid.gov/resilience

http://www.usaid.gov/actingonthecall

http://www.usaid.gov/news-information/videos/%E2%80%9Cfaith-works-honoring-contributions-faith-community-peace-and-prosperity

Please see the following links for more information: USAID "Rule" for Participation by Religious Organizations http://www.usaid.gov/faith-based-and-community-initiatives/usaid-rule-participation U.S. Strategy on Religious Leader and Faith Community Engagement http://www.usaid.gov/faith-based-and-community-initiatives/us-strategy Faith-Based Organizations FAQ http://www.usaid.gov/work-usaid/partnership-opportunities/faith-based-community-organizations/faith-based-organizations

DFID has worked with Wilton Park on a number of programmes The relationship of international foreign policy to faith and religion https://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/podcast/the-relationship-of-international-foreign-policy-to-faith-and-religion-wp1311/ Religion and development: making better policy to make a bigger difference in Africa (WP1400) https://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/conference/wp1400/ Freedom of religion…

This research programme has included research on religion. Pathways is a research and communication programme which seeks to discover where women are achieving real gains despite or because of policy and practice. It looks at how this has happened, and…

Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts (WEMC) is a 5-year Research Programme Consortium funded by the British Government's Department of International Development (DFID). The Consortium consists of eight Key Partners led by the Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC), located at the…

Between 2005 and 2010 the Religions and Development Research Programme Consortium undertook a series of comparative research projects that addressed the following questions:  How do religious values and beliefs drive the actions and interactions of individuals and faith-based organisations? How…

The first research programme funded by DFID was led by Dr Gerard Clarke at Swansea University This research was to look at DFID’s engagement with faith groups and how DFID could work more effectively with faith communities.  This was published…

Jean F Duff, Warren W Buckingham III http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60250-1/abstract  

Andrew Tomkins, Jean Duff, Atallah Fitzgibbon, Azza Karam, Edward J Mills, Keith Munnings, Sally Smith, Shreelata Rao Seshadri, Avraham Steinberg, Robert Vitillo, Philemon Yugi http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60252-5/abstract

Jill Olivier, Clarence Tsimpo, Regina Gemignani, Mari Shojo, Harold Coulombe, Frank Dimmock, Minh Cong Nguyen, Harrison Hines, Edward J Mills, Joseph L Dieleman, Annie Haakenstad, Quentin Wodon http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60251-3/abstract  

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/changing-world-changing-aid-where-international-development-needs-to-go-next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzAmPnJD8yk Dr Ayesha Chaudhry, UBC Idit Lev, Rabbis for Human Rights Rev Rachel Carnegie, Anglican Alliance Mousumi Sarangi, ICCO Cooperation Mamadou Lamine Sakho Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHx5MysV2u8[/embed] [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkXJnNSGE-s[/embed] Full Session: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKULoCPJd28[/embed]

Since 2006, Episcopal Relief & Development has been investing in a malaria-free future through its award-winning, flagship NetsforLife® malaria prevention program. NetsforLife® is a unique partnership of corporations, foundations, non-governmental groups and faith-based organizations collaborating with National Malaria Control Programs…