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Water & Sanitation

More than 1.1 billion people lack access to safe water, and 2.6 billion lack access to basic sanitation. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) include a target to halve the fraction of the world’s population without access to water and sanitation by 2015.

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Microfinance

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to low-income clients, including consumers and the self-employed, who traditionally lack access to banking and related services. More broadly, it is a movement whose object is "a world in which as many poor and near-poor households as possible have permanent access to an appropriate range of high quality financial services, including not just credit but also savings, insurance, and fund transfers."

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Governance & Transparency

Governance is the activity of governing. It relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance. Transparency implies openness, communication, and accountability. Transparent procedures include open meetings, financial disclosure statements, the freedom of information legislation, budgetary review, audits, etc.

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Health

Three of the UN's Millennium Development Goals directly address health issues (reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases) but it is an area that either impacts on, or is impacted by just about every issue facing the developing world: access to clean water, poverty, gender issues, and so on.

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Agriculture & Food

Issues surrounding agriculture and food affect every corner of the world, from obesity and genetically modified crops in the industrialized nations, to malnutrition and famine in many developing countries.

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Technology

From hand-cranked devices for grinding corn to solar powered wireless communications networks, technology has as an important part to play in the lives of people living in developing nations as it does in the industrialized world.

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Gender

While issues such as poverty, health, and conflict can affect anyone, they often impact the sexes differently. This means the solution to many problems also vary.

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Education

Education has many vital roles to play in developing nations, whether it is by passing along local knowledge vital to communities, helping adults learn new skills, or preparing children for their future lives.

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Environment

Environmental concerns range in scale from global issues such as climate change to more localized problems such as pollution and overfishing. However, the developing world has an important part to play in finding and implementing solutions.

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Foreign Assistance

Also known as foreign aid, international aid, or overseas aid, foreign assistance is a situation in which one country helps another country through some form of donation. The main recipients of foreign aid are developing countries, and the main contributors are industrialized nations.

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Change Makers

A change maker is a social entrepreneur with a passion to do more than do good. Change makers have come to the fore as social activists with a non-violent change agenda

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