Devex: Not just beneficiaries: Make the poor partners in fighting hunger
“How can you feed a billion people and lift them out of poverty while making sure their development progress is sustainable? For a senior official at the U.N. World Food Programme, we can by making them active agents in their own progress. That way, they will not only ‘own’ the development programs targeted at them, but also make food security an issue for the government in countries like the Philippines — not just international aid groups and NGOs…” (Santos, 3/3).