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Links & Contents I Liked 313

Hi all,

I attended Lisa Richey's initiatory lecture yesterday, wrote a novel volume review & travelled to Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany this morning time for a trip to consider household unit of measurement too attend a workshop adjacent week!
So without farther delay: Your #1 #globaldev link review for this week!

Enjoy!

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Thirst (book review)
Like the pinkification of thorax cancer awareness, the commodification of mindfulness or the depoliticization of Oprah’s volume club, this mix of American ‘can-do-ism’, a skilful dose of ignoring learnings from the past times too a theater neoliberal outlook that avoids whatever tough political questions (I don’t mean value ‘climate change’ or whatever other elbow grease for dry out wells is mentioned inward the book) are jump to write a charitable success story!Water is ever a rootage of life-never 1 of conflict or power. Wells are non component subdivision of broader civilian infrastructure, but holes inward the basis that at worst pose technical challenges.
And similar to Silicon Valley-invented platforms all of this tin live on managed past times a grouping of spiritual, dedicated Americans from an onetime printing warehouse inward New York City.
Development news
Amnesty International leaders offering to resign over bullying culture
Amnesty International’s seven-member senior leadership squad has offered to resign afterwards a damning study warned of a “toxic” working surroundings too widespread bullying.A letter, signed jointly past times the human rights group’s leadership team, acknowledged mistakes had been made, adding that the vii senior leaders took shared responsibleness for the “climate of tension too mistrust” across the organisation.
Rebecca Ratcliffe for the Guardian amongst a wow-ser of a tidings item that volition live on interesting to follow as it unfolds inward the era of #AidToo...

Danish economist chosen as novel United Nations surroundings chief
The United Nations secretary-general has picked the Danish economist too environmentalist Inger Andersen as its novel surroundings chief, according to a missive of the alphabet seen past times Agence France-Presse, turning the page on a scandal over expenses that rocked the United Nations agency.
The Guardian amongst to a greater extent than senior assistance leadership news.

USAID mulls proposal to prepare assistance workers as special forces
“RED Team evolution officers would live on deployed as two-person teams too placed amongst ‘non-traditional’ USAID partners executing a mix of offensive, defensive, too stability operations inward extremis conditions,” it says.Those “non-traditional” partners powerfulness include U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, U.S. Army Special Forces, the State Department Bureau of International Narcotics too Law Enforcement Affairs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, too the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to the study.In monastic enjoin to approximate potential involvement inward the thought of RED Teams, the study’s authors consulted amongst representatives from a multifariousness of military machine too civilian agencies where evolution officers powerfulness live on embedded — including the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, also known as SEAL Team Six.
Michael Igoe for DevEx amongst what sounds similar a terrible thought to blur lines betwixt humanitarian aid, military machine intervention & skilful onetime fashioned evolution further...

Rise inward sexual abuse cases inward assistance groups as to a greater extent than victims speak up
Leading assistance agencies received at to the lowest degree 539 reports of sexual practice abuse too harassment finally year, an exclusive survey showed on Monday, a thirteen pct growth on 2017 which charities said shows abuse victims are to a greater extent than willing to speak up.The reports have got led to the sacking of 91 staff, amongst many other cases nether investigation, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation's 2d annual survey of 22 leading global charities, including the United Nations (U.N.), Oxfam too CARE."If nosotros sustain momentum on this number too maintain working to ensure people experience condom coming frontwards to study abuse, the numbers of reported incidents volition inevitably go upwardly inward the brusque term," said Mike Wright, of Bond, a network for Great Britain assistance groups."But as nosotros reinforce the message that abusive conduct volition non live on tolerated too go along to improve our safeguarding practices, inward the long term they volition fall," he said.
Lin Taylor for Thomson Reuters Foundation continues the storey of what happens one yr afterwards the #AidToo displace started inward the assistance industry.

Humanitarian assistance has go the political weapon of pick inward Venezuela's powerfulness struggle
But the strategy has raised alert amidst leading assistance groups similar Mercy Corps, Oxfam too War Child, which have got warned that the politicization of humanitarian assistance could set those most inward take away at risk.“It is regrettable that assistance has go a pawn inward the political chess correspond betwixt the governments of the U.S.A. too Venezuela,” said Provash Budden, Americas Regional Director at Mercy Corps, inward a statement. “Aid should never live on used as political bait. Both the people who take away it too those who peril their lives to deliver it deserve better.”
Steven Grattan for Vice News amongst a contemporary update from Venezuela nearly the onetime tale of politicizing humanitarian assistance too American meddling inward humanitarian crises.

What Went Wrong?
“What Went Wrong?” is a citizen journalism projection that focuses a critical lens on failed unusual assistance interventions — whether they are stalled, unfinished, broken, insufficient, unusable, or otherwise unwanted. The projection does this past times inverting the traditional powerfulness dynamic too putting impact evaluation inward the hands of the people direct affected past times assistance interventions: the recipients. The squad spent half-dozen months collecting 142 citizen reports from assistance recipients across Republic of Kenya too investigating the projects that these reports unearthed.Devex has collaborated amongst the squad behind What Went Wrong? to attain half-dozen investigative stories exploring why merely about of these projects failed to deliver.
DevEx amongst interesting stories that link local citizen journalism from Kenya, global evolution reporting too appealing visual storytelling!
The F-Word of the Development WorldSometimes nosotros consider organizations non beingness able to articulate good plenty their vision towards solving a problem. Solving a employment is really important, but the procedure is as important. If the procedure is non anchored towards the community, if it’s non anchored towards actual existent insights from the people themselves, too thus y'all are opening yourself upwardly to a bigger peril of failing inward a way that post-correction would live on thus much to a greater extent than expensive.
Hassan Ghedi Santur for Bright Magazine utter to BRAC nearly their approach to failing too learning.

Who’s reporting Africa now?
Despite the absence of obvious forms of poverty porn, the usage of NGO fabric inward tidings nearly sub-Saharan countries remains suspect, partly because it does non supplement other, varied sources of tidings nearly sub-Saharan countries. Instead, NGO content risks replacing other sources, at to the lowest degree inward merely about international tidings outlets, which offered picayune other African news. Yet this colonization of African tidings past times NGO content is invisible to Western audiences because it was alone attributed one-half of the time.
Kate Wright for Africa is a Country highlights merely about of her recent enquiry findings.

Twenty 8 years holed upwardly inward Italian Embassy
The promise was that past times straight off they should have got left the Italian Embassy inward Addis Ababa where they have got been given refuge for the past times 28 years, too walked free. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed embarked upon a novel course of study of politics inward the province too talked inward a speech communication inward the Millennium Hall on May 2018 nearly a civilization of forgiveness too reconciliation that could fifty-fifty live on extended to the 2 Derg officials, Berhanu Bayeh, 82 too Addis Tedla, 73, who are nether the protection of the diplomatic mission walls. On June 2018, a local newspaper, Addis Admass announced their rest at the diplomatic mission could finally live on drawing to a close.
Arefaynie Fantahun for Ethiopia Observer amongst a storey that reads a chip similar a plotline for a time to come Netflix show!

Oral democracy
Our volume takes readers deep into the see of Indian democracy. Within the chapters readers volition encounter citizens talking to the province – conversing too argument amongst populace officials too demanding accountability nearly hamlet infrastructure too services, expressing their needs too demands, pleading for attention, critiquing the local government, too fifty-fifty directing sarcasm too scorn at elected leaders too populace officials. Immersed inward these state-citizen deliberations are 2 of our most of import findings, 1 regarding the usage of the province too the other concerning the necessity of literacy for a vibrant deliberative democracy.We regain that the character of deliberation tin live on substantially influenced past times province policy. States that prioritize citizen participation inward local authorities have got substantially improve deliberative character than states that de-emphasize local decentralization. For instance, citizens exercise pressure level for populace accountability much to a greater extent than forcefully inward states that play an active usage inward sharing information too mandating the presence of populace officials from business departments. States that adopt a scheme of selecting authorities subsidy recipients through the gram sabha significantly improve the volume too character of populace deliberations.
Vijayendra Rao for the World Bank introduces a fascinating novel (open access) volume that reminds me a chip of the classic Voices of the Poor project published inward 2000...

Florida inward the Global South: How Eurocentrism Obscures Global Urban Challenges—and What We Can Do nearly It
According to Richard Florida, the world is inward the traveling steal of a ‘New Urban Crisis’. In his most recent volume Florida recounts a see to Medellín that provoked an epiphany inward which he realized that the New Urban Crisis is global inward scope. Unfortunately, Florida's regain of the global South is informed past times a deeply Eurocentric agreement of urbanization. This leads him to conclude that Southern cities should ‘unleash’ creativity, too he proposes that the U.S.A. should develop a global urban policy that would export a version of American urbanism. In this essay nosotros deconstruct Florida's notion of the New Urban Crisis too demo that its Eurocentric assumptions obscure the really existent environmental, economical too political challenges facing cities inward the global South too their residents.
Seth Schindler & Jonathan Silver amongst a novel opened upwardly access article inward the International Journal of Urban too Regional Research.

Our digital lives
Cultural Course Correcting: Black Rock City 2019
One of the most lamentable trends is the growth of participants (both novel too experienced) who don’t seem invested inward co-creating Black Rock City, too are attending as consumers. Mass consumption inward our default world, ticket scarcity too merely about elaborate luxury camps have got contributed to the ascent of a playa “convenience culture.” In merely about cases, camps or companies are offering “all inclusive” pre-packaged Burning Man experiences, claiming they volition preemptively run across all of their client’s needs. Burning Man is anything but convenient, too therein lies its transformative potential!
Marian Goodell for the Burnin Man Journal of how the festival is discussing the commodification of its brand...

Academia
Male teachers are most probable to charge per unit of measurement highly inward academy educatee feedback
University students, similar many inward society, demonstrate bias against women too peculiarly women from non-English speaking backgrounds.That’s the accept habitation message from a novel too comprehensive analysis of educatee experience surveys.The study examined a large dataset consisting of to a greater extent than than 500,000 educatee responses collected over 2010 to 2016. It involved to a greater extent than than 3,000 teachers too 2,000 courses across v faculties at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney.
Merlin Crossley, Emma Johnston & Yanan Fan for the Conversation amongst novel enquiry findings on gendered bias inward higher education.

Decanonizing Anthropology
This syllabus was assembled collectively as a terminal projection of the graduate Social Theory cast inward the Applied Anthropology plan at Oregon State University. It offers several in-class activities for the projection of “decanonizing anthropology,” too overviews the go of 10 theorists whose contributions to anthropology should live on acknowledged too celebrated. The authors welcome novel sections or additions inward the comments. Keep inward heed the meat objective of this syllabus: to challenge the Eurocentricity of anthropological thought too pedagogy past times exploring influential, though historically ignored, voices inward anthropology.
Rebecca Renee Buell, Samuel Burns, Zhuo Chen, Lisa Grabinsky, Argenis Hurtado Moreno, Katherine Stanton, Froggi VanRiper & Loren White for Footnotes amongst pes for thought for the classroom...

Reimbursement policies laid upwardly academia less inclusive
Requiring students to ante upwardly conference funds upwardly front end without the promise of beingness reimbursed for months makes academia less welcoming for scientists who are financially disadvantaged. Yet universities too funding agencies seem unwilling or unable to do much to alter the system. Perhaps changing the status quo requires also much work. Maybe it’s non a priority because many students come upwardly from privileged backgrounds that insulate them from the issue. Students for whom this is a existent employment may experience ashamed to inquire for aid too live on treated as an exception.
Jessica Sagers for Science amongst merely about other persistent employment that makes #highered to a greater extent than unequal & inaccessible. I am lucky plenty that nosotros have got a go means that takes attention of my bookings thus I don't have got to pay for large ticket items such as flights or hotels...if Sweden tin do it, other systems should live on able to do it as well!

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