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The Faith-based Action Framework, announced on September 24, 2015 at the "Meeting the Moral Imperative to End Extreme Poverty and Advance the SDGs", is a working document developed by FBO and religious leaders. Religious leaders presented the Framework, and its three…

The draft Media Announcement is available to you to adapt for dissemination through your networks. Please also share the Conference Proceedings, Key Findings & Recommendations, and Videos on social media using the hashtag #RSD2015.

Transcript of remarks by Ruth Messinger, President & CEO of American Jewish World Service, at the Religion & Politics: Development Implications panel at the Religion & Sustainable Development Conference held on July 7-9, 2015 in Washington, DC.

Conference Photograph Gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/134817952@N07/albums All photos are attributed to the World Bank Group.

Videos of the Religion & Sustainable Development full conference sessions are available on the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities Video Channel. Videos are available here: Full Conference Videos Playlist Please note: Conference videos are unavailable for the Humanitarian…

This report, prepared by UNAIDS and the Stop AIDS Alliance, draws on multiple sources to document the many ways in which communities are advancing the response to AIDS, and the evidence for the effectiveness of these responses.

Core areas of community-based activities include advocacy, service provision, community based research and financing; each of these areas is illustrated by examples of community based actions.

Religion & Sustainable Development Conference Key Findings & Recommendations Full Conference Proceedings available at: https://jliflc.com/resources/rsd-conference-proceedings

This excel spreadsheet contains all of the recommendations recorded by each of the discussion groups during the five working sessions of the conference: Health Systems Strengthening, Ebola & HIV, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, Humanitarian and Disaster Relief, and Large Scale…

With its focus on faith leaders, this study uses the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and Liberia to explore the relationship between humanitarianism and religion and seeks to provide evidence, in real time, of the role of faith leaders in…

Responding to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s World Humanitarian Summit initiative, the Sovereign Order of Malta set up a Symposium to consider the question: 'Do faith-based institutions have an added value in humanitarian action particularly in conflict situations?’ Two high level…

The Religion & Sustainable Development Conference Proceedings provide an account of the Religion & Sustainable Development Conference and summarize the resulting key findings and recommendations. Links to resources on the Online Religion & Sustainable Development Conference Information Platform are inserted…

Dietrich Werner provided expert commentary as part of the Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief session at the Religion & Sustainable Development Conference.

Dietrich Werner delivered expert commentary at the Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief session of the Religion & Sustainable Development Conference. The conference was convened in Washington DC, July 2015.

Global Goals Work: https://pages.devex.com/global-goals-work.html During the month of May and in the lead-up to the next global development agenda Devex, UN Foundation, and Fenton are partnering together to launch a new series on global goals. The #GlobalGoalsWork series focuses on…

Please provide feedback to the Religion & Sustainable Development Conference organizers by filling out the following form: R&SD Conference Evaluation Form

http://issuu.com/nrasd/docs/hands_of_hope

https://vimeo.com/88043539

Please see the link below to view a post by Katherine Marshall (Senior Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University) on the Lancet Series on Faith-based Health Care, which was launched at the “Religion &…

Conference participants were divided into small groups for the working sessions. Facilitators guided small group discussions and recorded notes on the Discussion Templates. Facilitators recorded the actionable recommendations proposed by the group on the template, and each group's discussion template was collected by…

Washington, D.C. – A highly significant conference brought together 130 attendees to discuss Religion and Sustainable Development this week. The “Religion & Sustainable Development: Building Partnerships to End Extreme Poverty” conference was convened and co-hosted by the World Bank Group, the…

The "Religion & Sustainable Development: Building Partnerships to End Extreme Poverty" conference, held at the World Bank on July 7-9, 2015, aimed to produce specific and actionable recommendations to strengthening partnerships between public sector and religious and faith-based groups. Conference working…

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Click here to view the resource: http://iprcua.com/2015/04/28/extreme-poverty/

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Click here to view this resource: http://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2015/06/24/passionate-leader-of-unfpa-kenya-battles-violence-against-women-fgm-and-child-marriage/

Click here to view this resource directly in USAID's website: http://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/global-health/50-years-global-health

Click here to view this resource: http://www.usaid.gov/news-information/frontlines/maternal-child-health

Click here to view this resource: http://www.usaid.gov/actingonthecall

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