Inter-Religious Action
GHR Foundation's Inter-Religious Action funding works to improve development outcomes, build lasting community connections and advance peace by mobilizing religious leaders and communities to address common challenges.
GHR Foundation's Inter-Religious Action funding works to improve development outcomes, build lasting community connections and advance peace by mobilizing religious leaders and communities to address common challenges.
When religious leaders and communities collaborate on issues of common concern they can solve difficult problems, build trusting relationships, strengthen social cohesion and advance peace. GHR funding of inter-religious collaboration promotes:
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Inter-Religious Action Challenge: Reducing Malaria Rates in Nigeria
The Problem:
Malaria kills an estimated 300,000 people in Nigeria every year.
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Between 2004 and 2010, nearly $600 million in donor funding went to scale up Nigeria’s malaria control program.
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Nigeria’s government and partners distributed 50 million insecticide-treated nets across the country from 2007-2010. But bed net usage remained low.
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The Plan:
Train trusted religious leaders from different faith communities to advocate for net usage and malaria prevention. The Progress:
In Kaduna state, independent survey research found net use increased from 18 to 85 percent among followers of trained religious leaders. The Potential:
By engaging inter-religious leaders, communities and strategies, we can improve development results. Source: Center for Communication Programs-Nigeria and http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/microsites/ProgressImpactSeries/new-epub/index.html#book/1406
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Video: Faith in Action
See our story on building inter-religious cooperation to stop child marriage.

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