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    Pushing for a more grass-roots approach to build peace

    Despite substantial development progress in recent decades, conflict and the absence of peace has rendered a portion of the global population worse off. Harriet Lamb, CEO at International Alert, tells Devex how a grass-roots approach to peace building and conflict resolution can help change that.

    By Lean Alfred Santos // 18 February 2016

    If indicators including literacy, health and life expectancy are used to measure development progress over the past couple of decades, few would argue against the assertion that people now are generally better off than they were 30 years ago.

    Prior to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in New York in September, the United Nations published a report on the results of the Millennium Development Goals — the SDGs' predecessor — and the findings were cause for optimism.

    In 2015, the number of people living in extreme poverty decreased to 836 million from 1.9 billion at the turn of the millennium; the number of out-of-school youth declined to 57 million from 100 million over the same period; and average life expectancy increased by six years since 1990, according to the World Health Organization.

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      Lean Alfred Santos is a former Devex development reporter focusing on the development community in Asia-Pacific, including major players such as the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. He previously covered Philippine and international business and economic news, sports and politics.

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