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Interview with Roy Cordova on Bolivia’s biggest environmental challenge: mining companies who pollute the water with mercury and other chemicals

Why food fortification – adding vitamins and minerals to food – is so important in reducing health disparities and how to increase large-scale food fortification (#LSFF)

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Rebecca has driven and promoted the use of digital tools for Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) at Helvetas, an international development organization.

At her Digital M&E Academy, we not only learned the digital tools but improved our overall M&E skills and gained leadership training. Now we are Head Facilitators at Digital M&E Regional Academies, with Rebecca providing support, coaching and oversight.

Thanks to Rebecca, our countries' use of digital tools for M&E has increased, which is leading to more effective service provision, better outcomes and improved project management.

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MEAL specialist (Vietnam) / Asesor de Planificación, Monitoreo y Evaluación (Guatemala) / Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Helvetas

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Mining: Bolivia’s environmental disaster

However, higher temperatures and fires are not what worries me the most. More severe damage to the environment, with long-term impacts, has been carried out for a long time now.

I am talking about the mining sector in Bolivia. This sector processes the minerals with very basic procedures and - in the case of gold – with great amounts of mercury, dumping mineral waste into rivers, contaminating the water, fish and all biodiversity in the river banks. Families downriver cannot eat the fish anymore and they even have high mercury levels in their bodies.

Digital tools for Monitoring & Evaluation

Data collection for development projects In rural areas far from internet service or in cities with electricity or internet access disrupted by violence or shortages, some #development projects still use paper and pen forms to collect information - primary stakeholder...

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How to increase large-scale food fortification (LSFF)

Lack of micronutrients causes diseases ranging from anemia to stunting in children as well as child mortality and cognitive deficiencies. One key intervention is large-scale food fortification (#LSFF), which adds #micronutrients to food staples such as rice, wheat and...

The importance of food fortification

Approximately two billion people worldwide, at least one quarter of the world’s population, suffer from the “hidden hunger” of micronutrient deficiency. [1] Micronutrient deficiencyMicronutrients – vitamins and minerals such as Vitamin A, Vitamin B12, folic...

Ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Over 200 million women have undergone female genital mutilation (#FGM), a procedure where their vagina has been cut or mutilated. FGM occurs in over 90 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as in Europe, the US and other places people from those countries move. Learn tips on conducting outreach to communities where FGM occurs.