Countries as diverse as Afghanistan and Brazil have implemented nationwide programs based on strengthening local communities – both local government and grassroots civil society – to successfully meet pressing basic needs.
Two of the most pressing basic needs the poor have are for lighting and mobile phone charging (the latter coming from an unprecedented number of unelectrified mobile phone users - an enormous market opportunity).
So clearly there is still a pressing need for education on the most basic needs that animals have.
Decreasing reliance on fossil fuels is a pressing global need.
They're looking for answers to a pressing national need.
In general, animals were only sold when pastoralists had a pressing economic need for cash.
The security-related proposal of early detection of criminality meets a pressing social need.
The development of targeted therapies has created a pressing clinical need for molecular characterisation of cancers.
There is a pressing need for leaders to agree on basic steps to jump-start the sagging world economy.
In Peru, where more than half the people do not earn an income sufficient to cover their basic necessities, Wawa Wasis are filling a pressing need.
Similarly, there is a pressing need for outcome studies for depressed patients with complex needs.
