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"...taken together, the findings demonstrate the central role of the campaign in driving change over time..." In Tanzania, an estimated 32% of children under five suffer from stunting.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) have joined hands to strengthen Bangladesh’s digital financial ecosystem through interventions in policy and regulation, innovation, infrastructure, and skills to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

"In low resource settings, bridging online engagement with participatory on-ground activities amplifies community voices and experiences resulting in increased public interest in health topics and an uptake in vaccines." Just under half of the world population use social networks.

Susan Yoshimura introduces the JAPAN Forward team and listeners to the new website Japan 2 Earth, engaging us with the challenge of achieving the SDGs.

"...understanding nuances of vaccination acceptance or vaccine demand insights and the underlining drivers in resource-low settings such as...Malawi, where there had been dearth of evidence-based findings for policy actions." Vaccine hesitancy is one reason for difficulties with maximising vaccination uptake in Malawi.

"The preponderance of evidence characterizing effective behavior change techniques using digital interventions has been collected by focusing on residents of high-income countries." With a wide reach and worldwide omnipresence, social media platforms - including Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, WeChat, and others - have been of increasing interest in th

"Programs designed to increase levels of HIV testing should ensure they reach the populations most in need." KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province is a major epicentre of the South African HIV epidemic. It is home to large informal settlements that pose unique challenges and barriers in terms of accessing HIV services and care.

One Saitama city is putting Japan’s past experience to work by dispatching officials and tackling the challenges in a clean water project in Laos.

"While it is challenging to measure behavior change, this is a critical undertaking to track progress and understand why and how change happens to inform current and future projects." Developed by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank Group, this mapping tool aims to helps users plan and track behaviour change efforts to improve

"...vaccine skepticism may share a common cognitive root with other epistemically suspect beliefs..." Studies on the relationship between cognitive abilities and vaccination attitudes are scarce.