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Development news: Thailand's slave fishermen; UNEP boss' problematic go arrangements; UNSG talks nearly a complicated world; long-term benefits of cash transfers-it's complicated; redefining assistance inwards the 21st century; revisiting the depoliticizing women's empowerment debate; novel UNHCR assistance worker podcast; long-read on voluntourism-also complicated; Nkruma's legacy inwards Ghana; the ascent of the inequality industry; plus: to a greater extent than #globaldev podcasts, tweets, videos!

Publications: Mapping the landscape of foundation back upwards for #globaldev news; cash transfers tin can remove hold positive impacts on intimate partner violence.

Academia: H5N1 peer review special: Reviewing trends, radical reforms & a scathing critique of the academic publishing-industrial complex; plus: Ethnography at African borders.

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Development news


Thailand's slave fishermen: What's needed to solve the crisis?
Chairat, Patima in addition to the TMFG squad remove hold developed a scheme whereby slave workers tin can brand calls for assist on their mobiles spell at bounding main without beingness detected.
The details of this scheme, Chairat said, must live kept secret.
He instantly sees the release of slave fishermen every bit his primal aim in addition to is committed to freeing the workers in addition to raising awareness of their plight.
A consumer state of war on the industry, he says, is non the answer.
"We don't wishing to pressure level consumers to halt buying seafood," he says.
"A boycott affects the fishermen too. The solution is that the workers remove hold to remove hold power. There has to live collective action."
J.J. Rose for Al-Jazeera. Interesting even out nearly exploitation, the complexities of value chains in addition to how novel in addition to quondam forms of project activism are both needed for change.

Erik Solheim defendant of squandering past times United Nations auditors
the leader of Greenpeace Norway, Truls Gulowsen, who commented on the UNEP-leader’s extensive travels in addition to lack of routines for emission of greenhouse gases.
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«Erik Solheim has made the UNEP much to a greater extent than visible, which is a skilful thing. Part of the argue of course of pedagogy beingness his travels in addition to discussions amongst thence many persons. But this study puts him every bit good every bit the organization inwards an extremely bad light. It weakens the credibility of UN’s entire environmental organisation.»
Kristoffer Rönneberg for Aftenposten. H5N1 lot of nutrient for thought beyond the apparent irregularities around UNEP's Solheim's travels. How tin can the United Nations scheme respond to climate change, emissions & frequent (air) travel? What to do amongst some rules that real probable are 'bureaucratic' in addition to 'political'? And how to implement modify inwards a United Nations scheme that is commonly strapped for cash inwards its heart in addition to soul budget?

UN Secretary-General: American Power Is inwards Decline, the World Is ‘in Pieces’
Guterres is inwards the peradventure impossible topographic point of leading something called the United Nations at a fourth dimension when, inwards his ain view, the earth is fracturing. And every bit he tells it, it’s non exactly dysfunctional democracies in addition to xenophobic nationalism that made it this way. The culprits also include shifting mightiness dynamics in addition to resurgent great-power conflict inwards a earth organized neither past times the bipolar rival of the Cold War nor past times the singular leadership that the US exercised subsequently the collapse of the Soviet Union. “We alive inwards a … chaotic world,” he said, inwards which “impunity in addition to unpredictability” remove hold go “the call of the game.”
In the instance of the Syrian war, for instance, “you remove hold the involvement of the superpowers. You remove hold several regional actors, live it Turkey, live it Iran, live it Saudi Arabia, Qatar. You remove hold terrorist groups. And in addition to thence yous remove hold all kinds of Syrian movements,” observed Guterres, who days before had appealed to the Syrian authorities in addition to its Russian patron to non perpetrate an expected bloodbath inwards the in conclusion rebel-held stronghold of Idlib. “It’s real hard to set the puzzle together, in addition to it makes peace much to a greater extent than hard to achieve. First it makes prevention to a greater extent than complex, because nosotros remove hold to a greater extent than actors in addition to the risks of conflict increase. And in addition to thence it makes conflict resolution fifty-fifty to a greater extent than difficult, because of all the contradictory interests of these … actors.”
António Guterres talks to Uri Friedman for The Atlantic. This is genuinely quite an interesting slice beyond the word around US involvement inwards the UN. As always, the United Nations is a mirror of 'the world' & powers exterior in addition to only every bit strong every bit members wishing her to be!

Study: giving out cash inwards Republic of Uganda helped subsequently 4 years. After nine years, non thence much.
Now he in addition to his co-authors remove hold checked dorsum inwards in 1 lawsuit again nine years subsequently the intervention, in addition to the results are a cracking bargain less promising than subsequently four. While the people who got cash were earning 38 pct to a greater extent than coin than the command grouping inwards twelvemonth four, the command grouping caught upwards to the cash recipients past times twelvemonth nine. Overall income was no higher inwards the handling group, in addition to earnings were higher past times a small-scale (4.6 percent), statistically insignificant amount.
The recipients did remove hold to a greater extent than assets on average than people non getting the money, which makes sense; they had a abrupt influx of money, some of which was certain to go toward buying durable assets similar metallic roofs, fruit-bearing trees, or piece of work tools.
“The correct way to human face at these results is that people were richer for a spell in addition to and thence they remove hold nicer houses,” Blattman said. “Consuming that materials makes yous less poor. But I retrieve what a elevator out of poverty agency is non exactly that yous remove hold some extra savings in addition to a buffer, but genuinely that yous remove hold some real, sustained earnings potential, in addition to that’s non what we’ve seen.”
Dylan Matthews for Vox amongst an overview of the novel newspaper past times Chris Blattman et al.-cash transfers...it's complicated.

It is fourth dimension to redefine ‘aid’
We demand a novel narrative around international economical assistance agree for the 21st century. Current thinking is petty changed since the 1940s – portraying assistance every bit a short-term charitable human activity in addition to dividing countries into ‘developed’ (aid providers) in addition to ‘underdeveloped’ (recipients) – in addition to is conceptually flawed inwards today’s world.
Gail Hurley for Public Finance International. Good primer for discussions amongst students for illustration on 'the assistance system'.

The Missing Politics of Female Empowerment
The solution begins amongst an uncomfortable conversation inside the evolution manufacture on the complicity of diverse actors inwards the pattern of de-politicizing marginalized women inwards the Global South; a dismantling of the guise of empowerment inwards club to discover the funding, incentives, colonial legacies, in addition to political agendas driving the blueprint of programs. In Sri Lanka, Colombia, in addition to elsewhere, woman mortal activists are wary of both the political elites inwards their ain province in addition to the ideological strings tied to Western NGOs. As these collectives eke out their ain political spaces, they each offering distinctive ways forrard to address the deep-seated causes of inequality.
If donors in addition to practitioners are serious nearly greater access to mightiness for marginalized women, the entire framework of contemporary empowerment programming needs to live examined in addition to restructured to allow women to discover the cultural, economic, in addition to political infinite required to address inequality inwards all its forms.
Nimmi Gowrinathan for SSIR revisits some other 'classic' #globaldev query around the disempowering mightiness of the empowerment industry.

Awake at night
UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, is launching a podcast serial entitled ‘Awake at night’ focused on the incredible people who remove hold dedicated their lives to helping people who remove hold been forced to flee. Listeners volition bring together UNHCR’s communications chief, Melissa Fleming, inwards personal conversations amongst an array of humanitarian workers, in addition to larn what drives them to adventure their their ain lives protecting in addition to assisting people displaced past times war.
UNHCR's Melissa Fleming joins the #globaldev podcast world!

A genuinely interesting thread of digital journalism on detention camps inwards Libya:

The occupation concern of voluntourism: do western do-gooders genuinely do harm?
Organisations around the earth remove hold been working for years to halt orphanage tourism. Their piece of work is starting to comport fruit. Commonwealth of Australia is instantly discouraging the practice, in addition to the Australian parliament is considering a police push clit to label orphanage tourism every bit kid trafficking in addition to ban it entirely. In July, the U.K. international evolution secretary, Penny Mordaunt, announced that the government’s unusual assistance programme would instantly back upwards family- in addition to community-based attention for all children. In May 2016, the London School of Economics laid upwards a consortium of universities pledging non to advertise orphanage placements to their students.
Many major tourism companies – for example, Global Crossroad – silent prominently characteristic orphanage work. Nancy McGehee, a professor of hospitality in addition to tourism management at Virginia Tech University, says that companies ship representatives to speak on campuses. But some companies are closing their voluntourism programmes. The International Volunteer HQ announced that it would halt sending volunteers to orphanages past times March 2019. Projects Abroad stopped inwards Jan 2018. “I don’t retrieve we’ve lost whatsoever occupation concern from it,” says Jessi Warner, principal operating officeholder of Projects Abroad. “Quite oftentimes someone volition telephone in addition to say: ‘I wishing to piece of work inwards orphanages.’ When our squad explains why nosotros don’t do that, everyone is opened upwards to it. They oftentimes bring together our community attention programmes. It’s exactly nearly awareness.”
Tina Rosenberg for the Guardian. As glad every bit I am that this topic is regularly featured inwards the media now, I'm reaching 'peak voluntourism journalism' soon, I think.


The Pride in addition to the Power
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated subsequently leading the most influential protestation motion inwards American history. King revolutionized the utilization of nonviolent resistance to combat racial injustice inwards the United States, but the Alabama preacher did non e'er believe inwards nonviolence. In fact, early on, King relied on armed guards for his protection until an older Quaker activist named Bayard Rustin walked into King's dwelling solid in addition to changed the management of the civil rights movement.
Ozy kicks off a novel flavor of their podcast amongst H5N1 History of Nonviolence.

The contested legacy of Kwame Nkrumah inwards Ghana
The plantations in addition to manufactory alike are engulfed past times tangled outrage in addition to nostalgia, ubiquitous reminders of unfulfilled potential in addition to the uneven dividends of economical growth. People inwards the vicinity of these relics of Nkrumah’s modernizing mission, however, remove hold non given upwards all promise that they may “redeem” the fruits of his evolution visions. What efforts are people taking instantly to stake claims to rubber’s rewards? What does it hateful to seize the hereafter of a hurtful past? What would substantive decolonization of Ghana’s condom manufacture human face like?
Keri Lambert for Africa Is a Country amongst an interesting essay nearly the past, introduce & future's of Ghana's condom industry. 

The Inequality Industry
Now that nosotros sympathise these phenomena better, nosotros demand radical solutions to come upwards into play inwards the political arena every bit good every bit the intellectual one. And they demand to live animated past times an egalitarian spirit, non a technocratic 1 that, inwards the electrical flow context, is doomed to fail. Boushey suggests going dorsum to basics in addition to figuring out what it is we’re referring to inwards the starting fourth dimension house when nosotros speak nearly economical growth. The gross domestic production “has been our measure,” she points out. “We retrieve that if gross domestic product went up, that’s good! But nosotros demand to demonstrate people what matters is non how much it grows [but] to whom the gains go.” “We demand to brand certain wealth is non self-perpetuating,” Boushey adds. “We got hither past times saying, ‘Rich people in addition to Wall Street remove hold our involvement at heart, in addition to they’ll regulate themselves in addition to at that topographic point volition non live bad outcomes if nosotros allow them do what they want.’ We saw how that turned out.”
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian for The Nation. 10 years subsequently the halt of Lehman brothers & the start of the so-called fiscal crisis, the buzzword of 'inequality' is critically examined inwards this cracking essay!

Publications

Foundation back upwards for international news: Mapping the landscape
In this curt report, nosotros depict the key features of the landscape of individual foundation back upwards for international non-profit journalism. Our findings are based on interviews amongst representatives of a gain of relevant foundations, intermediaries in addition to non-profit word outlets inwards 2017.
Martin Scott, Kate Wright in addition to Mel Bunce amongst a novel report.

A Mixed-Method Review of Cash Transfers in addition to Intimate Partner Violence inwards low- in addition to Middle-Income Countries
Drawing on these studies, every bit good every bit related bodies of evidence, nosotros developed a programme theory proposing 3 pathways through which CT could impact IPV: (a) economical safety in addition to emotional well-being, (b) intra-household conflict, in addition to (c) women's empowerment.
Ana Maria Buller, Amber Peterman, Meghna Ranganathan, Alexandra Bleile, Melissa Hidrobo & Lori Heise amongst a novel opened upwards access article for the World Bank Research Observer. 

Academia
Peer reviewers unmasked: largest global survey reveals trends
Scientists inwards developed countries render nearly 3 times every bit many peer reviews per newspaper submitted every bit researchers inwards emerging nations, according to the largest ever survey of the practice.
The study — which surveyed to a greater extent than than 11,000 researchers worldwide — also finds a growing “reviewer fatigue”, amongst editors having to invite to a greater extent than reviewers to acquire each review done. The issue rose from 1.9 invitations inwards 2013 to 2.4 inwards 2017.
Inga Vesper for Nature amongst some information & trends around peer review.

Mieke Bal: Let’s Abolish the Peer-Review System
All this tin can live organized inwards relation to the purpose of academic publications, in addition to what the PRS precludes: a constructive production of the tools, the footing for debates, made available for the workers inwards academic research.
Mieke Bal for Media Theory Journal with some interesting nutrient for word on why nosotros should acquire rid of peer review...it's complicated.

Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the inquiry – it should live free
Now libraries experience empowered to human face the large publishers. They tin can reject to renew contracts amongst companiesas their users remove hold some other agency of getting past times the paywall. As the scheme has begun to creak, authorities funding agencies remove hold at in conclusion summoned the courage to do what they should remove hold done decades ago, in addition to demand the democratisation of knowledge.
George Monbiot for the Guardian. Nothing novel for those who piece of work inwards the sector, but a skilful primer for non-academia friends in addition to household unit of measurement who wishing to acquire an thought nearly the academic industrial publishing complex!

‘Why should nosotros speak amongst you?’
I retrieve nosotros should instead pay much to a greater extent than attending to the kinds of mobility that are of import to people’s everyday lives, such every bit habitual cross-border motion in addition to trade. We demand to enter at a much deeper agreement of the role of motion inwards people’s lives, including how dreams in addition to desires for mobility interact amongst immobility of dissimilar kinds. In this way, nosotros tin can plow the tabular array on the official gaze in addition to on world debates surrounding African migrants, who are oftentimes seen every bit “problems” inwards official European discourse in addition to policy.
And finally, nosotros must maintain shifting our gaze, to non human face only at migrants themselves, but at the powerful sectors that piece of work on migration in addition to the actors who shape our agreement of migration. Researching these actors, which is a way of “studying up,” is also real important.
Africa Is a Country talks to Ruben Andersson nearly his research, writing & scholarship around migration in addition to border (crossings) inwards Africa.

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