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Female Leadership Forum: Scaling Impact: Actionable Models for Women’s Leadership

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For over 25 years, the ADAM Program has helped the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in their efforts to bring home missing children quickly and safely. The 2025 ADAM Program Impact & Highlights Infographic spotlights our ongoing support and commitment to SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions protecting children.

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In this round up of 2025, we share the Special Collections published throughout the year to mark key UN observation days and events.

This article challenges the assumption that mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral systems independently select candidates across tiers, showing that decentralized candidate selection in Germany links both tiers and limits women's representation. It finds that barriers women face in single-member districts persist in the proportional tier, undermining MMP's expected advantage for female candidates.

Wicked problems, such as water security, require a shift to transdisciplinary research by bringing disciplinary perspectives, conducting participatory research, and developing case-specific solutions.
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Drawing on insights from the United Nations 10-Member Group on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the SDGs, Beyond 2030  reviews the framework’s achievements to date and delivers critical insights into how the SDGs can guide global cooperation and decisive local action well beyond 2030.

Observed annually on December 9, International Anti-Corruption Day (IACD) raises global awareness of the urgent need

Learn about the history of the ADAM Program and get a behind the scenes look at the new Interactive Missing Children Dashboard. This article demonstrates the power of the ADAM Program in locating missing children, relating to SDG 16, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. The ADAM Program is the result of a 25 year partnership between LexisNexis Risk Solutions and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).

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