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Happy midsommar from Sweden! Enjoy reading this weekend!

Development news: Combat charities inward Mosul; i yr afterwards the World Humanitarian Summit; does Daily Mail’s criticism of assistance matter? NGO-government relationships inward Kenya; the WHO DG reflects on her tenure; Africa is far away from beingness a digital noesis economy; a refugee metropolis inward Uganda; the rhetoric of partnerships lives on; Rwanda’s dictatorship; famine equally weapon.

Publications: Reviewing ‘Stay & Deliver’; global humanitarian assistance report; women & Earth occupation trends; social media tools inward Kenya; make age-of-marriage laws work? (Spoiler: No!); make certification schemes aid farmers? (Spoiler: Not really!).

Our digital lives: Philanthropy in addition to the programme officer; the rich give little; Silicon Valley’s flawed theory of history.

Academia: Reviewing MOOCs; higher ed institutions demand populace scholarship-but don’t fiddling to protect staff from backlash; opened upward access inward international organizations.

Enjoy!

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My decade leading the WHO: muddied fights in addition to steps toward universal coverage
Going forward, I would similar to come across the WHO make to a greater extent than to address financing issues, both for its ain budget in addition to the wellness budgets of low- in addition to middle-income countries. Member states hold quest the WHO to make to a greater extent than amongst the same budget, spell resisting proposals to “sunset” some areas of piece of work that gibe the mandates of other United Nations agencies. Such a full-menu approach impairs strategic leadership. Overall, the style inward international populace wellness is to movement away from official evolution assistance towards greater reliance on domestic resources. I worry well-nigh this. In large parts of the developing world, especially inward Africa, small-holder farmers inward the informal sector remain the backbone of the economy, severely limiting domestic resources derived from taxes.
Margaret Chan for Stat reflects on her tenure equally WHO Director General.

Combat charities in addition to the mediatization of extreme humanitarian volunteering
As a kick-starter for to a greater extent than discussions, my post service volition focus on 3 aspects: the (American) hero narrative, the responsibleness of media organizations to engage amongst content from such combat organizations in addition to implications for volunteering/voluntourism in addition to the humanitarian project.
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No thing how many times they attempt or who bankrolls their efforts, an American guy shooting at people inward a far-away Earth volition non hold out the solution to terminate state of war in addition to conflict…
Development news

My decade leading the WHO: muddied fights in addition to steps toward universal coverage
Going forward, I would similar to come across the WHO make to a greater extent than to address financing issues, both for its ain budget in addition to the wellness budgets of low- in addition to middle-income countries. Member states hold quest the WHO to make to a greater extent than amongst the same budget, spell resisting proposals to “sunset” some areas of piece of work that gibe the mandates of other United Nations agencies. Such a full-menu approach impairs strategic leadership. Overall, the style inward international populace wellness is to movement away from official evolution assistance towards greater reliance on domestic resources. I worry well-nigh this. In large parts of the developing world, especially inward Africa, small-holder farmers inward the informal sector remain the backbone of the economy, severely limiting domestic resources derived from taxes.
Margaret Chan for Stat reflects on her tenure equally WHO Director General.

Kenyans volition vote inward August. Why are NGO-government relations an issue?
Finally, evidence tells us that NGOs piece of work where they take away hold to a greater extent than freedoms. The to a greater extent than that Republic of Kenya moves away from democracy, the less probable NGOs are to concentrate their efforts in that location — hold out it for education, wellness aid or providing humanitarian assistance inward war-torn neighboring countries, similar Somalia in addition to Sudan. Nairobi could lose its appeal equally a hub for NGOs throughout East Africa, which would also hateful a loss of jobs in addition to income for Kenyans involved inward these services, inward the NGO sector, in addition to for global organizations based inward Kenya.
Jennifer N. Brass for Washington Post's Monkey Cage amongst research-based insights into Kenyan politics-just inward fourth dimension for the forthcoming elections.

My decade leading the WHO: muddied fights in addition to steps toward universal coverage
Going forward, I would similar to come across the WHO make to a greater extent than to address financing issues, both for its ain budget in addition to the wellness budgets of low- in addition to middle-income countries. Member states hold quest the WHO to make to a greater extent than amongst the same budget, spell resisting proposals to “sunset” some areas of piece of work that gibe the mandates of other United Nations agencies. Such a full-menu approach impairs strategic leadership. Overall, the style inward international populace wellness is to movement away from official evolution assistance towards greater reliance on domestic resources. I worry well-nigh this. In large parts of the developing world, especially inward Africa, small-holder farmers inward the informal sector remain the backbone of the economy, severely limiting domestic resources derived from taxes.
Margaret Chan for Stat reflects on her tenure equally WHO Director General.

Africa risks fading from digital noesis economy
Going farther than this, towards a transformation into noesis economies, volition demand far to a greater extent than concentrated attempt than only increasing meshwork connectivity. One barrier highlighted past times our findings is the curt render of locally produced knowledge.
Without investing to shift the trends shown inward our research, Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a worryingly diminishing operate inward the world’s digital noesis economy.
Sanna Ojanperä in addition to Mark Graham for SciDevNet amongst a reminder that Africa's transformation into noesis economies are to a greater extent than hard than exactly getting people online.

A Bold Experiment inward Republic of Uganda
This is what Zuckerman has been upward to inward Uganda. He’s evangelizing community-owned in addition to community-sustained spaces within the settlements. And he sees this variety of open, bottom-up approach equally a template for edifice non exactly the time to come of refugee settlements, but also the time to come of cities worldwide.
Kathi Vian for the Institute for the Future. The thought of treating refugee settlements equally 'cities of the future' seems to hold out getting some momentum-but I am a chip to a greater extent than skeptical that this volition hold out the 'future of migration' inward an era of substantial command in addition to skepticism well-nigh the 'refugee crisis'.

My decade leading the WHO: muddied fights in addition to steps toward universal coverage
Going forward, I would similar to come across the WHO make to a greater extent than to address financing issues, both for its ain budget in addition to the wellness budgets of low- in addition to middle-income countries. Member states hold quest the WHO to make to a greater extent than amongst the same budget, spell resisting proposals to “sunset” some areas of piece of work that gibe the mandates of other United Nations agencies. Such a full-menu approach impairs strategic leadership. Overall, the style inward international populace wellness is to movement away from official evolution assistance towards greater reliance on domestic resources. I worry well-nigh this. In large parts of the developing world, especially inward Africa, small-holder farmers inward the informal sector remain the backbone of the economy, severely limiting domestic resources derived from taxes.
Margaret Chan for Stat reflects on her tenure equally WHO Director General.

I reviewed Anjan's neat majority on journalism inward Rwanda!

The Nazis Used It, We Use It
Drawing on a long Anglo-American tradition of economical warfare in addition to blockade, the counter-humanitarian style inward London in addition to Washington is both morally distasteful in addition to practically stupid. When international assistance fails to feed the hungry in addition to process the sick, extremist projects flourish. If safety strategists in addition to xenophobes hollo back that humanitarian crises volition displace themselves out at a rubber distance they are mistaken: the biggest demographic outcome of famine has ever been migration – the Gulf countries are learning this lesson, equally millions of Yemenis cross their borders. The threat to the values of the humanitarians coincides amongst dramatic demands on their noesis in addition to skills. Their best strategy is to accept the first in addition to suggest that starvation hold out added to the listing of crimes against humanity.
Alex de Waal for the London Review of Books amongst a fascinating, historical long-read on famine in addition to humanitarianism.

Hot off the digital press
Presence in addition to Proximity - To Stay in addition to Deliver, Five Years On
The study shows that humanitarian community continues to grapple amongst the job of its might to remain in addition to deliver effectively in addition to responsibly inward highly insecure environments. Progress has been made inward a number of areas. Humanitarian leaders consistently utter of their commitment to staying in addition to delivering where at all feasible, in addition to nosotros take away hold seen notable instances where United Nations agencies, NGOs, in addition to others take away hold stayed in addition to delivered at neat risk. Yet despite these improvements, this study also broadly finds that non plenty has changed, peculiarly at the plain level, since the publication of To Stay in addition to Deliver inward 2011.
New study past times the Norwegian Refugee Council inward collaboration amongst UN OCHA.

Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2017

In add-on to our annual analysis, the 2017 study introduces salient topics to back upward the reform of crisis-related financing. This includes analysis on the links betwixt poverty in addition to crisis, risks in addition to resources in addition to across several of the Grand Bargain commitment areas such equally transparency, localisation, earmarking, cash in addition to multi-year funding.
Development Initiatives exactly published their annual study amongst lots of nutrient for thought, information in addition to visualizations!









World Employment in addition to Social Outlook: Trends for women 2017
However, the study finds that in that location are pregnant socio-economic in addition to sex norm constraints influencing a woman’s conclusion to participate. Accordingly, the study introduces a comprehensive framework to address the drivers of these sex gaps in addition to outlines a serial of policy recommendations to improve the labour marketplace outcomes of women.
The ILO also published an interesting novel study recently.

Using Digital in addition to Social Media to Monitor in addition to Reduce Violence inward Kenya’s Elections
3) social media monitoring of violence should hold out undertaken inward conjunction amongst other reporting systems that seek to overcome inequalities inward digital access in addition to use
Caitriona Dowd for IDS amongst a handy overview well-nigh social media's operate inward the forthcoming elections inward Kenya.

Do Age-of-Marriage Laws Work? Evidence from a Large Sample of Developing Countries
By this measure, most countries are non enforcing the laws on their books in addition to enforcement is non getting amend over time.
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We conclude past times contention that amend laws must hold out accompanied past times amend enforcement in addition to monitoring inward to delay spousal human relationship in addition to protect the rights of women in addition to girls.
Matt Collin in addition to Theodore Talbot for CGDev. I hollo back 'better enforcement in addition to monitoring' was i of those lessons I commencement learned inward my undergrad evolution studies classes to a greater extent than than xv years ago...

Effects of certification schemes for agricultural output on socio-economic outcomes inward low- in addition to middle-income countries: H5N1 systematic review
There is express evidence on their effects on a attain of intermediate in addition to terminal socioeconomic outcomes for agricultural producers in addition to wage workers. There are positive effects on prices. But workers’ payoff make non seem to make goodness from the schemes. Income from the sale of make is higher for certified farmers, but overall household income is not. Context matters substantially for the causal chain betwixt CS interventions in addition to well-being.
Carlos Oya, Florian Schaefer, Dafni Skalidou, Catherine McCosker in addition to Laurenz Langer for 3ie. In global value chains, those at the bottom acquire ripped-off...

Our digital lives
Through the Eyes of the Program Officer
But when looking exterior of their forthwith grantees, the perspective of programme officers changes. Only well-nigh one-half of programme officers who responded to our survey believe that nonprofit organizations, inward general, are good run. Even fewer hollo back that nonprofit organizations are good equipped to assess their performance. Just 39 per centum believe that nonprofit organizations take away hold the noesis necessary to assess the results of their work, in addition to fewer than 10 per centum believe that nonprofit organizations take away hold the resources necessary to comport such assessments.
Jennifer Glickman introduces a novel survey on foundation programme officers for the Center for Effective Philanthropy.

Hold the Toasts to Generosity. In Fact, the Rich Give Away Very Little of Their Wealth
Even equally a growing number of wealthy donors stair upward to give, many are asset dorsum in addition to the far upper grade equally a whole is exclusively parting amongst a tiny sliver of its wealth. Some of the rattling richest Americans—like Jeff Bezos in addition to the Mars family—give barely anything all.
Why don’t the rich give more? There are diverse reasons, including that giving away money wisely is harder than it looks. It takes time, focus in addition to energy—which tin hold out inward curt render for busy people notwithstanding involved inward their careers. Also, many wealthy people may only aid to a greater extent than well-nigh preserving in addition to growing their family's assets than well-nigh helping out others.
David Callahan for Inside Philanthropy amongst a reminder well-nigh the compass of electrical flow philanthropy-don't hold back for donations, brand certain the rich pay proper taxes :)

The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
But their universal fascination amongst charismatic leadership shows that behind the tech economy’s democratic façade beats a deeply authoritarian heart. For Horowitz, spell the “culture” of a companionship or a nation is embodied past times its employees in addition to citizens, it tin ever hold out channeled past times a wise leader to specific ends. The enslaved people of Republic of Haiti could never shape their ain culture—only L’Ouverture, CEO of the Haitian Revolution, could.
John Patrick Leary for The New Inquiry takes on firm capitalist Ben Horowitz in addition to his narrow interpretation of the history of conception which is indicative of the mindset of a lot of Silicon Valley movers in addition to shakers...

Academia
MOOCs Moving On, Moving Up
With some exceptions noted previously, MOOCs are mainly a applied scientific discipline business, focused on providing a render on investment (even for nonprofits similar edX) past times targeting the large nondegree professional person evolution in addition to applied scientific discipline grooming market. Though the MOOC experiment over the past times 5 years has resulted inward many positives, this era also reminds us that when it comes to grade attainment, in that location genuinely is no magic bullet. The hard, in-the-trenches piece of work of helping the students of today acquire in addition to remain focused, learn, in addition to stick it out to grade completion remains the province of mainstream higher educational activity -- MOOCs or no MOOCs.
Cathy Sandeen for Inside Higher Ed reflects on her predictions well-nigh MOOCs she made a couplet of years ago. Spoiler alert: MOOCs take away hold non made colleges/universities obsolete in addition to non 'everybody' studies at MIT at the moment...

Everything But The Burden: Publics, Public Scholarship, And Institutions
The indicate is, institutions take away hold been calling for populace scholarship for the obvious reasons. Attention tin hold out equated amongst a type of prestige. And prestige is a way to shore upward institutions when political in addition to cultural attitudes are attacking colleges in addition to universities at every turn. And, faculty are vulnerable to calls for them to engage. We’re all sensitive to claims that we’re out of touching in addition to behind on neoliberal careerism. And some of us genuinely aid well-nigh engaging publics (shocking, I know). But the prestige chase on i manus in addition to eager faculty on the other agency nosotros haven’t asked what institutions owe its factor members for populace engagement.
Tressie McMillan Cottom amongst an of import reminder that 'public engagement' (espcially at the United States universities) is a chip to a greater extent than than 'leaving the ivory tower in addition to give a talk'-and inward the digital historic flow it tin come upward amongst backlashes that many institutions are non good equipped to handle.

Open Access Policy In International Organisations
The enquiry of opened upward access is “much broader in addition to to a greater extent than complex” than exactly access to research, Beauchamp said. The shared objective of opened upward access is, according to Beauchamp, encouraging users to accept the content in addition to portion it without whatsoever technical or licence barrier.
Elise De Geyter for Intellectual Property Watch amongst an practiced overview over debates within international organisation on how to brand information in addition to other information opened upward access; it's a chip to a greater extent than complicated than only putting an opened upward access license on each product...

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