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Inside Colombia's City of Women

Kary Stewart

April 20, 2016 |

The Guardian |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Colombia, Turbaco

La Ciudad de Las Mujeres or the City of Women was built by displaced women in Colombia. They are the survivors of violence from the Colombian war. “Today the neighbourhood has its own infrastructure, housing almost 500 people with a school, all built by the women.” The organization has also established a credit fund for micro-enterprises, a brick factory, a community restaurant, and a childcare center.

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How the slum women of Ahmedabad led a housing revolution

Carlin Carr

April 14, 2016 |

The Guardian |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The Indian city where Gandhi established his first ashram can be grueling if you live in a slum: 50 ºC temperatures, poor ventilation, no running water. A group of women had had enough and agreed to work with developers.

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The innovators: the smart systems driving motorists towards smarter cities

Shane Hickey

April 03, 2016 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Cambridge

How can traffic efficiency be improved? A Cambridge-based tech firm is pioneering apps that let drivers quickly find available parking spaces (helping save fuel by preventing them from circling the block while they look), alerting local councils when roads are icy, or even increasing the lighting on particular roads when there's an emergency.

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Come for the pizza, stay for the power: why Boston let teenagers set its budget

Sandra Larson

March 31, 2016 |

The Guardian |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Boston’s Youth Lead the Change engages young people in municipal decision-making by putting them in charge of determining how one million dollars is spent every year. Participants learn how city government works, submit project ideas, and vote on which proposals to fund. It’s not a simulation. The money is real.

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The all-female patrol stopping South Africa's rhino poachers

Jessica Aldred

February 26, 2016 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: South Africa

The poaching of rhinos in South Africa has seen a rapid increase since 2007, jumping from 13 deaths then to 1,215 in 2014. After concluding that guns alone were not the solution, a patrol of local women from impoverished areas were brought together in the Balule reserve to focus on efforts in removing snares, stopping bushmeat kitchens, setting up roadblocks and implementing educational opportunities in poor communities and schools. Since their start, the area has seen a 76% reduction in snaring and poaching incidents.

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Meet India's female 'seed guardians' pioneering organic farming

Bijal Vachharajani

February 18, 2016 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Odisha

Over the last two years, six seedbanks have been established in five villages in Odisha, India, with 72 men and women conserving 50 varieties of fibre and food crops seeds. This is a much needed shot in the arm for these districts which are plagued with hunger, poverty and insecurity.

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Unmasked! The Mexico City superhero wrestling for pedestrians' rights

Dulce Ramos Sophie Hughes

November 09, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

Clogged with traffic, crippled by poor infrastructure – the capital is notoriously hard to navigate on foot. Enter Peatónito, the activist fighting for safer streets.

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Measuring up: how open data could spur drive to meet global goals

Mark Anderson

November 04, 2015 |

The Guardian |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam

Information is essential to build trust between the government and the governed, create accountability, and oppose systemic corruption. In Tanzania, a series of initiatives are working to collect, disseminate, and create new tools to capture information towards these ends.

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How one of the most obese countries on earth took on the soda giants

Tina Rosenberg

November 03, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Chiapas

El Poder del Consumidor is an organization fighting Coca-Cola's power over health care decisions in Mexico. The organization tried many tactics but only found success after finding friends with enough money to compete with the beverage industry giants.

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Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates

Lauren Gambino

October 07, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Bard prison initiative, in New York, allows inmates at correctional facilities to take liberal arts classes and improve their opportunities to find work upon release.

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