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Hi all,

After a brusk Easter break, your favorite #globaldev link review is back!

What I realized when going through 2-week's worth of content was how apace a prissy review shaped upwards that features powerful together with empowering stories past times together with close women.
There are stories close women shaping the Canadian unusual service, Helen Clark's challenges equally senior United Nations diplomat, how journalism contributed to social alter on FGM issues inward Liberia, but also on how menstrual pads together with consumerism won't 'fix' debates on periods. There is also novel enquiry on women's attention piece of employment together with a postal service on the commodification of self-care.

The other subject for this calendar week is how 'the digital' interacts amongst evolution together with humanitarianism: From the challenges of employing digital volunteer humanitarians together with multiple digital identities to questions of how social media contribute to crises, biometrics inward the humanitarian sector together with large information for resilience!

Plus: Skip the annual report, don't hear to Nick Kristof & last a prissy medical volunteer!

Enjoy!

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Menstrual Pads Can’t Fix Prejudice
We must resist the well-meaning impulse to improve the lives of menstruating girls through consumption. The greater demand is for people to empathise that periods aren’t something shameful together with best kept hidden. When menses is treated equally normal, it becomes to a greater extent than than a nuisance, a punch business or a weapon wielded to hold women inward their place.
Our aim must last to transform the revulsion into respect, to shift from “eww” to “oh.” We demand to redirect resources toward promoting innovative, inclusive together with culturally sensitive community-based teaching close the menstrual cycle. And the audience must last non entirely girls, but also everyone surrounding them — boys, parents, teachers, religious leaders together with wellness professionals.
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But menstrual activism won’t last meaningful if it is reduced to Western-style “better living through to a greater extent than consumption.”
Chris Bobel for the New York Times. I recall nosotros demand to challenge the "better living through to a greater extent than consumption" narrative inward so many development-related fields, projects together with approaches!

How to accept the correct risks inward international development
Yet these supposedly ‘safe’ programs do involve risks – but ones that are less obvious. Institutionally-focused programs typically offering individuals fewer incentives to purchase into reforms, increasing the take away chances that there’ll last no political volition to brand reforms ‘stick.’ Since institutional alter is slow, these programs also tend to take away hold longer fourth dimension horizons, increasing the likelihood they volition struggle to demonstrate impact inward the short-term, something that tin leave of absence assistance providers exposed to criticism dorsum home.
Accepting that fifty-fifty familiar, ‘safe’ programs come upwards amongst risks volition move far easier to displace away from a mind-set of avoiding risk, because it forces us to human face upwards the fact that avoiding all take away chances is impossible.
Susan Dodsworth & Nic Cheeseman for the Devpolicy Blog innovate their latest on risks/rewards together with republic assistance. Interesting research-but how does that reverberate the realities of policy together with exercise where take away chances is normally seen inward a negative way together with short-term gains almost ever outweigh longer term risks?

IDS together with partner enquiry highlights barriers to women’s empowerment
IDS together with partners took the twin opportunities of International Women’s Day together with the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women to portion enquiry highlighting fundamental barriers to women together with girls beingness empowered, peculiarly some unpaid care, decent piece of employment together with life choices.


Liberia bans woman individual genital cutting inward a triumph for local journalism
In the years since that story, FGC has been a constant fixture inward newspapers, on radio verbalize shows, together with inward Liberia’s politics. Once taboo, it is directly on everyone’s lips, including, to our neat joy, the girls themselves. In tribal areas, intelligence of what happens inward initiation ceremonies is reaching the girls, together with they’re pushing back.
At this year’s International Women’s Day celebration, Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee applauded Mae for advancing the crusade of Liberia’s women. “When I started equally an activist, y'all could non say the word ‘FGM’ inward Republic of Liberia inward a negative sense,” Gbowee told a crowded stadium inward Monrovia. “Today, y'all tin verbalize close it. For me, equally a feminist together with equally a fighter, I take away hold to remain optimistic that alter is definitely going to happen.”
Mae Azango & Prue Clarke for the Columbia Journalism Review on journalism, media powerfulness together with social change.

Q&A on Digital Humanitarians amongst Researcher Wendy Norris
However, I’ve noticed lately a novel together with rather troubling exercise of social media equally a de facto emergency telephone telephone network when regime systems are overwhelmed during a natural disaster. Quite desperate people are publicly posting private information online to move past times along to official search together with rescue teams together with promotion hoc volunteer groups that cast to aid evacuate trapped residents. The information lingers on search engines together with insecure websites created past times the grassroots rescue groups amongst niggling to no privacy protections against identity theft. I’m rattling concerned that folks who are trying to slice their lives dorsum together are directly at take away chances of information exploitation, too.
It is incumbent on digital humanitarians together with our institutional partners to revise their organisational information policies to secure and/or mask personally identifiable information inward low-cal of this emerging trend. Crisis computer science researchers also take away hold an enormous responsibleness to ensure that nosotros piece of employment closely amongst our institutional review boards to implement safety protocols for storing together with hashing social media information that may comprise personally-identifiable information from crisis-affected people.
Carolina Are talks to Wendy Norris for the Humanitarian News Research Network close the opportunities, risks together with rewards for digital humanitarian volunteers.

Digital Identity at the Margins
The concepts of ascriptive together with expressive identity are useful because they present how the interactions amongst institutions together with private facial expression involve vital questions of power. Ahmed’s ascribed identity equally a refugee is both enabling together with constraining, peculiarly some displace together with social life. Access to a agency of facial expression such equally Facebook gives Ahmed momentary liberty to limited himself together with last whoever he decides to be. This inward plough has implications for 2 concepts which initially look quite abstract — but which take away hold concrete impact on the good beingness together with personal dignity of refugees.
Emrys Schoemaker together with Paul Currion for the Global Policy mag portion of import nuances some digital identities, risks together with opportunities for refugees far beyond electrical flow 'leave facebook!' polemics.

Humanitarianism’s other applied scientific discipline problem
While the problems of humanitarian access together with assistance cannot together with should non last boiled downwardly to a unmarried issue, the daily drumbeat of intelligence on how social media is shaping our societies together with politics should non last ignored past times the humanitarian community. After all, humanitarianism exists inward a political world. If these platforms take away hold these platforms take away hold the potential to undermine the rattling norms which build our existence equally a sector, the norms that protect both assistance workers together with civilians, together with trial the decisions of policy makers towards aid, so the humanitarian community desperately needs a strategy address the novel media basis nosotros alive inward today.
Daniel Scarnecchia amongst a goodness overview over the scrap of how social media together with digital tools take away hold played a powerful together with detrimental operate inward humanitarian contexts, again, far beyond the 'Cambridge Analytica thinks I'm a liberal' debate!

Advice To Parachuting Docs: Think Before You Jump Into Poor Countries
The authors of the seat paper seemed a flake oblivious inward i way, equally well. As the Annals of Internal Medicine notes inward an editorial inward the number that published the paper: "We were perplexed together with disappointed that no authors from low- together with middle-income countries were included together with no input from in-country collaborators was acknowledged."
"I recall they are comprehensive together with well-written together with I do non hesitate to congratulate the squad that has come upwards up amongst it," says Dr. Bernard Olayo, a populace wellness specialist who practices internal medicine inward Nairobi, Kenya. "But they could take away hold done a much amend task if they had received input from physicians together with institutions that have such kinds of doctors."
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The MD should last "a humble visitor," the paper states.
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"I recall the era of the physicians equally original together with commander is over, together with that's rattling goodness thing," says Dr. Khan. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 physician inward whatever setting is business office of a team, he believes, together with that squad includes the patient.
Marc Silver for NPR Goats together with Soda reports on some other volunteering/voluntourism forepart business together with a community that tardily comes to damage amongst novel challenges of immature people going abroad to do good...

An experiment inward participatory blogging on Ebola inward Sierra Leone
Then nosotros read out the spider web log from the laptop; Tommy was translating business past times line. In damage of their suggested changes to our draft, at that spot were few. Some wanted to hash out the theft of a blackboard from the school. Overall, they were hugely enthusiastic, together with some wanted their names together with photos included. We were reluctant to do that inward representative at that spot were repercussions for them, together with explained that to them. When I read out ‘Everybody made promises together with didn’t come upwards back. We attention for each other together with directly nosotros are beingness punished; where are the NGOs now?’’ – everyone stood upwards together with clapped together with cheered!
Then nosotros had a actually prissy trial – I did some magic tricks together with nosotros had running races for the children, so hopping, so the whole hamlet joined in. All sorts of competitions. It ended upwards amongst me having a race amongst the primary schoolhouse teacher. It was a dead heat. We were all mobbed past times the kids at the end!’
Duncan Green for f2p2 talks to Tim Allen, Melissa Parker, Tommy Hanson, Lawrence Babawo & Ahmed Vandi close a neat representative of participatory community blogging inward Sierra Leone...no affair what the economists tell you, anthropologists are the existent evolution super starts :) !

Doing Development the Right Way: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Conversation amongst Charles Piot
I do recall our grooming equally anthropologists aims our attending to the social life of communities, amongst all its messiness together with conflict together with fissure. Do these insights also enable us to notice solutions to the problems of evolution inward small-scale contexts similar this? In principle, yes.
To rest amongst the representative of the cyber café we’ve installed: despite the frustrating loss of fourth dimension – 8 months of inactivity – my students together with I take away hold familiarity amongst the lines of authorisation at the cyber café together with inward the larger community, together with nosotros know what jealousies mightiness last inward play—so nosotros are able to brainstorm solutions amongst local allies.
In this case, a promising result is inward progress – together with i that may vault the cyber-café into a whole novel orbit of activity, amongst a private entrepreneur from a dissimilar ethnic grouping managing it, patch adding a photo-copier together with printer, together with installing a coin transfer kiosk. (Local wisdom is to move exterior the community to expect for a manager, equally locals mightiness endeavor to poach on the goodwill of a household unit of measurement fellow member or unopen acquaintance, apace bankrupting the enterprise.) So – perhaps! Only fourth dimension volition tell if this volition last a failure-into-success story. If it does, fifty-fifty a success volition certainly generate its ain novel circular of challenges together with setbacks. But, evolution inward such a context is ever similar this.
Alma Gottlieb talks to Charles Piot close pupil fieldwork inward Togo, learning amongst communities together with doing small-scale evolution differently; again, anthropologists rule!

Resisting the commoditisation of self-care & edifice our capacity for collective care
I reckon some of what is happening, inward detail online, some ‘self-care’ equally a commodification together with the evolution of a variety of ‘self-care’ manufacture that sells us stuff so that nosotros tin reckon a demand that the ‘do-it-all’ civilization some us is creating.
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In other words I reckon blogs together with books total of all the things nosotros should do for ourselves. But ofttimes they ignore the fact that the reasons nosotros are so bereft of attention are structural.
Mary-Ann Clements for Jijaze amongst an of import reminder that nosotros can't swallow our way out of the #AidToo challenges...

Publications
Engaging amongst people affected past times armed conflict
Engagement with, together with accountability to people affected past times crises remains i of the areas inward the humanitarian sector that, inward recent years, has seen the to the lowest degree progress. In 2017, the ICRC together with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative surveyed the existing literature, together with interviewed over threescore humanitarian workers together with donors to reckon what’s working, what’s non working, together with how things tin last improved, especially inward conflict together with violence, inward today's digital world. This is what nosotros learned...

Biometrics inward the humanitarian sector
We identified iv fundamental ways inward which biometric information is dissimilar from other pieces of personal data.
Uniqueness together with immutability: Unlike names, appearances or dwelling addresses, most forms of biometric information are singularly unique to the private involved together with cannot last changed. As people similar Shoshana Amielle Magnet take away hold written, the human activity of distilling an individual’s identity into a unique number or code may last viewed equally dehumanising, together with may embed discrimination along the lines of gender, race, or socio-economic status.
Richness of information: Some biometric information contains a richness of information that exacerbates the risks created through its collection, storage together with use. Depending on the type of biometric data, a lot of personal information tin last gleaned, from wellness conditions, to household unit of measurement members.
Mode of acquisition: The human activity of acquiring biometric information is ofttimes far to a greater extent than intrusive than the collection together with provision of other types of personal data. In some cultures, an iris scan could last considered invasive, for example, equally Privacy International notes inward its 2013 report, Biometrics: Friend or Foe of Privacy?.
Flexibility of use: As applied scientific discipline advances, biometrics are increasingly used for surveillance together with monitoring. Advancements are also permitting passive identification. For example, the exercise of facial or iris recognition at a distance, without the knowledge or involvement of the private concerned.
Carly Nyst & Zara Rahman for the Engine Room amongst a novel study for Oxfam.

Big Data for Resilience Storybook
Aimed at an audience of resilience together with evolution practitioners, the Storybook offers various experiences together with practice-based recommendations to leverage Big Data’s potential together with address its risks equally business office of efforts to build resilience.
Angélica V. Ospina for the International Institute for Sustainable Development with a novel report.

Hybridity on the Ground inward Peacebuilding together with Development
At a workshop inward Canberra inward Dec 2015 (where I was present) held to hash out the draft chapters for this volume, it became clear how widely entangled the dynamics of hybridity are, across so many issues from rights, identity, indigeneity, materiality, local governance, justice, reconciliation, sustainability, the nature of the province together with international system, globalisation together with the commons, to call but a few. It begins to convey a far to a greater extent than complex see of peace together with order, i that accentuates
the opened upwards together with hidden violence of to a greater extent than parsimonious approaches. Indeed, equally an epistemological framework, amongst methodological–ethical sets of tools, it offers a completely novel ontology of relationality across at to the lowest degree iv dimensions equally opposed to the black-and-white basis of rational
self-interest. Due to the piece of employment of the scholars included inward this study, it is gradually becoming clear that some other basis is non but ‘possible’ but is already inward existence together with that concepts together with thinking close peace together with peacebuilding demand to respond.
Joanne Wallis, Lia Kent, Miranda Forsyth, Sinclair Dinnen & Srinjoy Bose amongst a novel opened upwards access E-book amongst ANU Press. I want at that spot was a concise overview/abstract correct away on the website...

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