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ACOG's Office of Global Women's Health has expanded its efforts greatly in the last few years, as it aims to improve maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide and develop and support critical ob-gyn training.

Two-week national polio and measles campaign in Bangladesh which targeted about 20 million children under five. In order to ensure widespread participation, community health promoters made loudspeaker announcements and door-to-door visits to families like Johura's in the week prior to the campaign. The messages advised families about the importance of immunization.

Since 2011 UNDP is leading an intervention on the integration of climate change risk and resilience in forestry management in Samoa (ICCRIFS). Financed by a grant from the Global Environment Facility through the Least Developed Country Fund, with co-financing by the Government of Samoa, the 4-year, US$4.9 m project was implemented across the island to raise climate awareness, improve livelihoods and increase reforestation.

he Egypt Network for Integrated Development (ENID) is a five-year initiative that links literacy education with vocational training to generate new income, improve food security and enhance basic and public services for the marginalized communities and people of Upper Egypt.

This project promotes legal education for women and provides job placement to fill the justice sector with qualified female law students and graduates.

This a crucial year for GCE. Its campaigns include the UN millennium development goal of securing a primary education for every child by 2015. The organisation's UK young ambassadors will travel to Bangladesh with the charity ActionAid to see the work that has been done and - with 57m children around the world still not in school - the barriers that remain.

Twenty years ago, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world. But the opening up of its markets has led to a reduction in poverty levels. As part of its Development Progress project, the Overseas Development Institute looks at how this has been achieved

Interact Worldwide has worked in partnership with local organisations in Malawi to ensure people from poor, rural communities can access mother and newborn health services

Every day, a thousand or so children have been protected from disability during a 26-year global effort to eradicate polio.  

This  project's goal in India was to lower that rate of anaemia in adolescent girls by providing regular iron and folic acid supplements. To do that, they engaged multiple government departments and community and school leaders. 

While the world met the MDG target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water five years ahead of the 2015 deadline, 2.5 billion people still lack proper toilet facilities. More than one billion people - most of whom live in rural areas - have to defecate in gutters, behind bushes or into water.

Zulie shares the story of her 14-year-old sister, Afisha, whose father promised her in marriage to an older man when he could no longer afford to send her to school

Through the Girls Education Project in Nigeria, barriers are being broken down and an education passed on to girls