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Mckenzie Howell

M.A in International Affairs

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Mock Grant Proposal: Health is Wealth

Health is Wealth (HW) is a rural health organization combating the syndemic of Malaria and HIV infection, ameliorating health inequities through resource and training support, and reducing factors impacting health quality across the West African region. Health is Wealth has recently expanded its rural health efforts to include sustainable development and environmental decontamination projects--targeting factors like unclean water in exacerbating negative health markers throughout the region.

Mock Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

Barrick and Common Ground are both committed to promoting peace and stability in conflict prone countries while fostering economic opportunity. It is for these reasons that both parties have agreed to launch an initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to facilitate peace and stability in the country. Through the peacebuilding efforts of Common Ground, Barrick hopes to serve as a dependable neighbor and member of the community and to bring an end to local conflict.

Global Nomads: Assessing the “Ideal” Expats for Corporate Expatriation

...multinational corporations (MNCs) have struggled to be competitive in foreign markets due to challenges with corporate expatriate staffing. Global Nomads are seen as a solution – yet recruitment is just one phase in addressing staffing challenges, and current cost-cutting thinking is reductive. If MNCs hope to maximize corporate returns on expatriation, they must consider the individual returns on Global Nomads’ non-material assets in terms of recruitment, performance, and retention.

Parachute Kids: The Physics of Struggle and Agency in Transnational Education at Work

Take a moment and visualize it: a plane soars high overhead, crossing seas and borders, and a lone child steps out onto open air and enters free fall. They fall and they fall until the do-or-die moment arrives. The child rips hard on a cord and a parachute rapidly unfurls from their back like a pair of wings. Drag forces generated by the parachute resist the crush of gravity and a child’s hurtling descent toward the earth slows. The child touches down to the ground with their toes, taking stumbling footsteps forward into their futures.
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Bayanihan: Community Pantries in the Philippines

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Approximately one-tenth of the global population suffered undernourishment in 2020. Starting in early April 2021, the Philippines faced further food insecurity under extended lockdowns. In the absence of adequate government support, average citizens — from farmers to health care workers — came together to fight hunger and embody bayanihan, or “collecting community effort,” by setting up community pantries in the Philippines.

Dr. Jamie Dasmariñas of the Council for Health and
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Distance Learning in Africa Goes the Distance

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — The pandemic saw a rapid shift toward distance learning as schools shut down across the globe. Unfortunately, hundreds of millions lacked ready access to remote education resources, whether online or over the airwaves. Distance learning in Africa became a priority throughout the pandemic. Now, many have to learn to adapt to live with the pandemic to survive. As a result, remote education has become part of a broader conversation about African development.

Bearing in mind curr
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Project HOPE: Help is on the Horizon During COVID-19

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Project HOPE is a global health nonprofit that “has responded to nearly every major disaster since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.” Bearing this in mind, it is almost a given that Project HOPE is also an active force in the global fight against COVID-19. In an interview with The Borgen Project, Project HOPE CEO Rabih Torbay discusses Project HOPE’s humanitarian response to COVID-19 and the importance of working with local communities to address any health crisis.

Project HOPE
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Experimenting With Impact Bonds Continues

More than 10 years into the Impact Bond experiment, pandemic conditions have tested the financial tool’s effectiveness and sustainability. In the course of these trials, the market managed to expand and produce new case studies. It is no longer just the developed world experimenting with impact bonds.

Impact Bonds (also known as Social Impact Bonds, Development Impact Bonds or Pay-for-Success Projects) are a relatively recent financing tool for implementing public works, introduced in 2010 in t
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A4AI: UN Joins the Alliance for Affordable Internet

As social distancing measures and lockdowns isolated people, the internet helped keep communities connected and functioning. Households ordered groceries online, adults telecommuted to work and students attended school via distance learning. The internet asserted itself as a necessary utility. However, affordable internet access is far from universal. The United Nations has partnered with the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) to address this by increasing affordable internet access in deve