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I am dorsum inwards Sweden i time to a greater extent than with this week's link review features interesting nutrient for idea inwards all major sections!

Development news: Aid sector dealing with #AidToo; exploitation & abuse of woman mortal farm workers across Europe; United Nations comms & simulated tidings inwards historical perspective; women empowerment through the gig economic scheme inwards Pakistan; lessons from advocating against UK revenue enhancement havens; humanitarian tidings survey results; job organisation journalism inwards Africa; how to go with national staff.

Our digital lives: Conference swag & plastic garbage; op-eds modify minds; the algorithmic time to come of finding jobs.

Academia: Megan Fox & pseudo-archeology on TV; Nepal's largest academy is silent inwards ruins afterward the earthquake; online-only courses may non live that inclusive; how to engage with fragility & injustice inwards champaign research.

Enjoy!

Development news

#MeToo gender activity scandals spur involvement inwards standards for the assist sector
Standards inwards full general are non a barrier to novel or little NGOs in addition to newcomers to the sector, Knudsen insisted. In fact, she added, they supply a framework for goodness practise in addition to comparability.
Knudsen pointed out that standards in addition to certifications solely demonstrate whether an organisation has the construction to attain lineament work. They are “an enabler, rather than a predictor” of quality, she said.
Hauselmann of HQAI said that previous attempts at third-party audits in addition to independent assessments had suffered because of a perception that they are “a tool to sanction”. Instead, he stressed, they should live seen equally i of the “most of import drivers for improvement”.
However, Nicholas Stockton, onetime caput of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership in addition to a veteran of before initiatives to improve standards, doesn’t believe NGOs tin accomplish effective collective self-regulation.
After revelations of sex-for-aid abuses inwards West Africa inwards 2002, in that location was a “moral panic”, in addition to novel initiatives were established, he wrote inwards an online comment on IRIN. Gradually, however, “business equally park resumed in addition to a growing sense of impunity in addition to hubris grew, in addition to with it the ever-increasing danger of unmanaged moral peril that has at i time been blown open.”
Ben Parker for IRIN with an update on the long route that volition follow afterward the #AidToo momentum.

One Of The World’s Leading Food Certifiers Will Investigate The Alleged Sexual Abuse Of Women Farmworkers
Dozens of women reported sexual harassment, exploitation, in addition to fifty-fifty rape past times their employers on tomato plant in addition to strawberry farms inwards Spain, Morocco, in addition to Italia that sell their attain across Europe.
Speaking to BuzzFeed News, matrimony officials inwards Kingdom of Spain likened the women’s working atmospheric condition to “slavery.” The tomatoes in addition to strawberries these women harvest are sold across Europe, including the UK, Germany, in addition to France, equally “safe in addition to sustainable.”
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But Lidl did non comment on possible corporate responsibleness for the incidents inwards southern Kingdom of Spain or the possibility of taking activity to actively foreclose farther sexual abuse of workers.
Pascale Mueller in addition to Stefania Prandi for BuzzFeed News study on agricultural exploitation-you volition live equally surprised equally I am that a large supermarket chain similar LIDL chop-chop denies whatever corporate responsibility...

United Nations staff inwards Republic of the Fiji Islands investigated over sexual misconduct allegations
The allegations had been made past times upward to iii woman mortal staff members at the WFP inwards Suva.
Morale had taken a hitting inwards United Nations circles inwards the Pacific inwards subsequent days, with staff frustrated in addition to disappointed, the staffer added.
"I would hope they employ an independent panel to undertake this inquiry."
The United Nations spokeswoman would non confirm whether the staff members had been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation.
She also would non give whatever details virtually the allegations.
Harrison Christian for stuff with a even out developing inwards Fiji.

Save the Children suspends DFID bidding with sexual misconduct scandal
Save the Children UK is to withdraw from bidding on UK of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland authorities contracts equally it falls deeper into a sexual misconduct scandal.
Jessica Abrahams for DevEx with some other update on #AidToo developments.

Fake News in addition to the UN: An Item Since 1945
“The way that international relations is conducted is real unlike from the way it was conducted before, Jacobs said. “And I’m non certain whether this has something to attain with the United Nations existence or non existence create for or non made for it.”
The United Nations tin supply direct tidings on its Twitter accounts, which run from official pages of agency heads to evolution experts, but how does it create a personality that draws people back, eager for useful, reliable information?
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The United Nations is also hampered inwards contradicting simulated tidings coverage past times how communications are silent handled within Turtle Bay, the nickname of the United Nations chemical compound inwards New York. Much of the go of the UN, including past times the top brass, is done behind the scenes, creating a veil of quiet that harks dorsum to the Cold War in addition to i that no i is eager to lift, despite calls for “transparency.”
The secretive nature of some Security Council meetings — euphemistically, “consultations” — hinder the catamenia of goodness tidings stemming from the Council, which does exist; such as, most recently, the peacekeeping mission inwards Republic of Liberia closing on goodness price with its “host” country.
Laura E. Kirkpatrick for PassBlue on the challenges for the United Nations to communicate inwards the digital age.

Pakistan’s Gig Economy Helps Smash Obstacles To Women Working
Ultimately, according to women similar Asif, the gig economy’s flexible, part-time go model — long derided equally precarious in addition to exploitative inwards West — may evidence beneficial, accommodating dual mother/worker roles in addition to allowing women to bring together the labor forcefulness at times when they would ordinarily driblet out to concentrate on their families.
“After getting married, I wasn’t working at all because I had a child,” says Asif. Today, she typically sees 2 to iii clients a twenty-four hours in addition to juggles parenting in addition to work. “I don’t demand to inquire anyone for coin because I earn my ain money.”
“The entire role was to give economical independence,” Shameelah Ismail says. “If nosotros desire the economic scheme to boom, nosotros demand to tap the women. When they regard their mothers are the ones earning in addition to the primary breadwinners, their mindsets change. They are to a greater extent than opened upward to women working, in addition to the entire gild changes.”
Sabrina Toppa for the Huffington Post reports on some positive aspects of the gig economy-the double burden of aid go in addition to work deserves to a greater extent than attending equally demands on women growth to live observe a residuum betwixt traditional roles, capitalist demands in addition to empowerment.

Forcing transparency on UK Tax Havens: the fine art of the impossible
I was told, inwards categorical terms, that this wasn’t legally possible. These territories were independent entities, in addition to would receive got to brand the determination themselves. I shared legal analysis I had commissioned to no avail.
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We should non confuse our labor with that of politicians or bureaucrats who recall inwards price of what is possible. We should bargain inwards price of the world nosotros desire to see, thus create the atmospheric condition that go far so.
David Mcnair from OneCampaign on how modify tin orbit over fourth dimension in addition to what broader lessons he takes away from the drive work.

How job organisation tidings shapes Africa’s image
The tidings media is non a uncomplicated mirror to the world. News content is a crafted, cultural product. It reflects the priorities in addition to tidings values of the organisations in addition to journalists that brand it. And – crucially – it reflects the economic science of the tidings manufacture in addition to who is willing to pay for information.
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Indeed, job organisation reporting is a welcome modify to centuries of “Afro-pessimism” inwards tidings content, in addition to reports that focus on crises, darkness, poverty in addition to white saviours.
There is a problem, however, when job organisation journalism (made with a fiscal clients inwards mind) becomes a fundamental root of information for full general tidings audiences. The content of this tidings tends to sustain what the linguist Norman Fairclough calls a “neoliberal globalization discourse” inwards which of import dimensions of globalization – ecological, cultural, political in addition to societal – are ofttimes absent, or presented equally subordinate to the global marketplace system.
Mel Bunce for Africa is Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Country shares her research on the African job organisation tidings discourse.

Attitudes towards humanitarian tidings within the assist sector: Survey results
There is widespread dissatisfaction within the assist manufacture with the quantity in addition to lineament of mainstream tidings coverage of humanitarian issues in addition to crises.
73% of respondents agreed that mainstream tidings media does non attain plenty coverage of humanitarian issues.
Mainstream tidings coverage was also regularly criticised for existence selective, sporadic, simplistic in addition to partial.
Martin Scott for Humanitarian Journalism shares results from the humanitarian tidings survey.


National Staff
Supporting national staff to cross the administration threshold is a lot of work. We receive got to actively hold off for talent, which agency fourth dimension spent with people, knowing their capability in addition to performance, in addition to truly helping them develop inwards areas where they’re weak. Which, inwards turn, requires planning in addition to methodology. “Local staff capacity building” cannot live merely a random sequence of one-off preparation workshops in addition to promotions. It is non creating unique positions inwards a construction merely for them. Rather, it agency looking carefully at resources available in addition to making tough choices virtually how to deploy those, in addition to thus existence able to explicate rationally why y'all chose what y'all chose (because inwards my experience, investment inwards local staff mobility is almost e'er questioned past times someone, at some point).
Lucky for us, J. can't seem to alive without a weblog ;)!

Our digital lives
Tech conferences receive got a garbage plastic swag problem
Promotional goodies are an inevitable business office of whatever conference. I don’t desire that to modify (I don’t recall anyone does) but it tin absolutely live done inwards a way that’s to a greater extent than environmentally friendly, spell offering to a greater extent than value to attendees. From amend gifts, to nutrient in addition to experiences, in that location are a lot of ways forward.
Matthew Hughes for The Next Web describes his conference freebie experience. Plastic waste matter may less of an number for academic conferences, but the waste matter of printed paper is an number there...

Study shows paper op-eds modify minds
“We found that op-ed pieces receive got a lasting number on people’s views regardless of their political affiliation or their initial stance on an issue. People read an declaration in addition to were persuaded past times it. It’s that simple.”
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In both experiments, people exposed to op-eds shifted their views to back upward the declaration presented inwards the piece, with the full general world existence marginally to a greater extent than persuaded than the elites.
Mike Cummings for Yale News on novel research on how op-eds shift opinions-so nosotros volition probable regard much to a greater extent than of them inwards the future...

The resume of the time to come volition tell employers who y'all are, in addition to non merely what you’ve done
The resume of the close time to come volition live a document with far to a greater extent than information—and information that is far to a greater extent than useful—than the ones nosotros exercise now. Farther out, it may non live a resume at all, but rather a digital dossier, possibly secured on the blockchain (paywall), in addition to uploaded to a global job-pairing engine that is sorting you, in addition to billions of other labor seekers, against millions of openings to observe the perfect match.
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LinkedIn could build pattern-recognition software that combines such information with insights from companies into what combinations of employees are effective, he said.
“You tin imagine scenarios where nosotros inquire recruiters, who receive got visibility into their organisation or are trying to observe someone new, virtually what types of people are working good together within the company, where are in that location pockets where they’re seeing success,” Roslansky said.
Oliver Staley for Quartz on the brave novel world of algorithmic labor matching in addition to the hope that if y'all supply plenty information points labor volition basically search for you-not the other way round...

Academia
Pseudoarchaeology on the Travel Channel: Megan Fox to receive got a novel exhibit in addition to crystal skulls on Legendary Locations
Henry Schleiff, a Travel Channel exec said “when it comes to debunking the myths some some of our greatest historical mysteries, Megan Fox’s passion for discovering the truth is merely visceral.”
Carl Feagans for the Archeology Review on the problematic human relationship betwixt celebrities in addition to archeology/science inwards an ever-crowded TV marketplace for (pseudo-)historical investigations.

University silent inwards ruins iii years afterward earthquake
44 other administrative in addition to academic buildings were severely damaged, spell 99 other campus buildings suffered pocket-sized damage.
Some 54 community colleges mainly affiliated with TU also collapsed inwards the disaster in addition to 171 suffered damage.
However, iii years downwards the line, solely 2 administrative buildings of TU receive got been constructed, spell merely 10 damaged properties receive got been repaired.
“The authorities hasn’t prioritised our reconstruction. We volition receive got to hold off for years if the procedure is non expedited,” said TU Rector Sudha Tripathi.
Binod Ghimire for University World News with a sorry update on the province of Nepalese higher education.

Online learning isn’t equally inclusive equally y'all may think
Even so, modeling values of fairness, empathy, acceptance, kindness, respect, in addition to responsibleness to in addition to for other people inwards an online setting tin rest elusive. The same thing tin live said for capturing students’ excitement for discovery, satisfaction in addition to pride inwards their accomplishments. Rather than an inherent characteristic, inclusivity inwards an online classroom should live pursued inwards an intentional in addition to ongoing way.
Erin Clow & Klodiana Kolomitro for University Affairs part some their experiences some online courses; based on our teaching inwards Communication for Development it has been real clear that y'all demand to create an interactive blended learning surroundings if y'all desire students to stick some for entire degrees. I recall that's also i of the reasons why MOOCs haven't been such a disruptive success-the bulk of students silent likes (classroom) interaction.

Elective Affinities: Fragility in addition to Injustice inwards the Field
I am doing my PhD research with unemployed youth inwards Freetown, studying violence inwards the aftermath of war. I hang out inwards “ghettos”, I sit down endlessly equally immature men drink, smoke, hear to music, in addition to nosotros verbalize virtually “the system”. It’s intense, but rewarding work, I’m learning every day, I recall it’s what I receive got been trained to do, the total immersion experience. Then, i twenty-four hours the violence I am researching comes real close, also close, it rips my world apart.These 2 curt snapshots seem unrelated, but equally I lay inwards my infirmary bed inwards Freetown afterward Kadiatu’s decease inwards the district hospital, I kept finding myself thinking virtually what had happened v years before. They were isolated instances inwards an otherwise happy in addition to rewarding near-decade of engagement inwards Sierra Leone. However, inwards both situations I felt utterly powerless in addition to fragile, in addition to inwards both cases I experienced on my pare the sort of fright in addition to violence that I receive got explored inwards my research, whilst becoming profoundly witting of the ways inwards which my sense remains nonetheless fundamentally different.
The New Ethnographer with interesting nutrient for idea on how the PhD research in addition to supervision procedure should comprise the experiences of fieldwork to a greater extent than into the whole learning procedure exterior 'case studies' or 'vignettes'-or attain nosotros opportunity to overload an academic exercise with also much reflection ?!?

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