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Hi all,

We had 2 long, but corking days discussing weblog projection assignments with our Communication for Development students. I am also preparing for postal service link review #300 side yesteryear side week, but inwards the meantime...

Development news: The job with microcredit; Saudi's United Nations PR efforts; China's appetite for fishmeal is felt across Africa; Canada's expensive zombie mines; informality & gig economic scheme inwards Africa; that blasted white savior complex; the enablers of 'More Than Me'; ICRC goes crowd-funding; toys-in-soap are great! Humanitarian ethics; Bengal famine; Poland inwards 1987; non burning out after 25 years of medical assist inwards Uganda.

Our digital lives: Visa regimes & journalism; run is the job of sexual practice work; journalism spell brown.
 
Publications: Questions most nudge theory; what's the impact of DfID's maternal wellness projects? ILO on air pollution & gender inequalities; World Bank's ComDev report; Fairtrade & the politics of metrics.
 
Academia: Rewiring Puerto Rico-decolonial-style!

Enjoy!

Development news
Loan sharks are circling for pitiable Indian debtors failed yesteryear microfinance
But at nowadays at that topographic point is a growing torso of query suggesting that microfinance doesn’t run for some communities – apart from generating income for lenders. It may receive got worked good inwards People's Republic of Bangladesh inwards the 70s, but it has failed to hold upward with the changing needs together with behaviours of concern owners. One reason, say critics, is that repayment price are unrealistic together with old-fashioned. Inflexible contracts neglect to encounter the investment needs of pitiable borrowers such every bit Rashmi, whose income fluctuates over the year: “It tin flaming live extremely busy around the festival, and, so afterwards, at that topographic point are some weeks when I can’t sell a slice of barfi [traditional Indian cake],” she says.
Even though Rashmi’s income is irregular, the microfinance establishment demands fixed weekly repayments starting directly after the loan disbursement. This agency she cannot utilisation all the coin to give her supplier a downpayment for her social club of Diwali sweets. She needs to retain 15% to brand certain she tin flaming encounter the repayments earlier she generates income. “It volition receive got weeks to sell plenty sweets to brand a turn a profit – weeks inwards which I even so receive got to brand regular repayments on the loan. This adds to the borrowing costs,” she says.
Navjot Sangwan for the Guardian with some interesting nutrient for thought most 1 of the darlings of the #globaldev industry.

Saudis demanded goodness publicity over Republic of Yemen aid, leaked United Nations document shows
The document also sets out how all agencies receiving Saudi assist must part a summary of their publicity around the funding. The understanding adds: “We consider it real of import to ensure that our dearest beau Yemenis are all aware of our donations. More emphasis should live placed on strengthening the local visibility programme yesteryear engaging local media … so that donors acquire deserved recognition together with non to live overshadowed yesteryear the recipient’s agencies’ visibility.”
The UN, the programme sets out, volition convene events at United Nations headquarters focusing on the humanitarian answer inwards Yemen, together with the impact of all donor funding. These events volition admit the roles of all donors including Kingdom of Saudi Arabia together with the UAE.
The understanding also requires agencies receiving the assist to document Saudi- together with UAE-supported activities inwards photographs together with video cloth inwards Yemen.
The document so sets out 48 specific steps United Nations agencies receive got agreed to receive got this twelvemonth to publicise Saudi activity roofing 5 unlike United Nations aid-linked agencies, including the United Nations Development Programme, Ocha, the World Health Organization together with Unicef.
Patrick Wintour for the Guardian. The United Nations scheme can't live picky most its funding together with somehow the Gulf states are genuinely bad with their PR...


'Fish are vanishing' - Senegal's devastated coastline
This is a hungry industry, with 5kg (11lb) of fish required to create simply 1kg of fishmeal. There are already some twenty plants inwards Nouadhibou alone. But critics say this manufacture is creating real few jobs.
"The Senegalese were replaced with mainly Chinese together with Turks who at nowadays grab the fish beingness processed yesteryear fishmeal plants, mostly owned yesteryear the Chinese together with Russians," Alassane Samba, a one-time managing director of Senegal's oceanic query institute, tells me.
"Mauritania is protecting its waters non for its people, but for foreigners."
He adds that despite the lack of fish, at that topographic point are around xv fishmeal plants inwards Senegal also, including 1 inwards St Louis. Some are beingness built farther downwards the West African coast every bit far away every bit The Gambia.
Ocean Shock: Fishmeal factories plunder Africa, receive got nutrient from plates.
When times were good, the thousands of workers at this outdoor fish-drying facility – almost all of them women – could brand to a greater extent than coin than the fishermen many had married, saving plenty to purchase them novel engines, or fifty-fifty boats.
Among them was Rokeya Diop, a matriarchal figure of goodness standing with the community that dries, smokes together with salts fish for sale inwards local markets. These days, the acrid curtain hanging over the near-deserted complex matched her mood.
BBC News with a shorter version together with Matthew Green for Reuters with the long-read on yet some other development-growth-climate modify challenge that threatens the surroundings together with people.

Canada’s northern ‘zombie mines’ are a lingering multi-billion dollar problem
The arsenic trioxide dust, released from the stone every bit it was roasted to acquire the gold, was pumped clandestine during most of the mine’s life. Better at that topographic point than inwards the air (in the early on days of the mine, it was sending upward to 7,400 kg of the dust out into the environment, sickening locals together with fifty-fifty killing a Yellowknives Dene child) but it presents its ain problems underground.
Dealing with the arsenic trioxide has been the fundamental headache for the federal regime since 2004, when it took over remediation of the mine from its bankrupt owner. The dust has meant that, barring an unforeseen technological breakthrough or unthinkable disaster, at that topographic point volition never live an halt to the government’s purpose inwards keeping the site secure.
“This volition never live a walk-away solution,” Brad Thompson, senior projection manager for Public Works together with Government Services Canada, told a grouping of reporters at the mine inwards mid-September.
He agency that the government, together with thence taxpayers, volition never walk away from Giant Mine — a feat that, for its owners, took simply a flick of a pen. They mined $2.7 billion worth of gold, together with so Canadians were left with the billion-dollar cleanup.
Jimmy Thomson for the Narwhal with investigative reporting from Northern Canada. Besides the fact that the Narwhal is in all likelihood Canada's best independent reporting projection on mining-related issues, it is a reminder that no affair what the companies volition tell the world they volition capitalize on their profits together with socialize the toll when they are done!

Let’s Be Real: The Informal Sector together with the Gig Economy are the Future, together with the Present, of Work inwards Africa
When nosotros speak most task losses together with gains inwards the developed world, nosotros are mostly thinking of formal sector jobs with regular hours, regular pay, diverse legal protections, together with registered for income taxes. But inwards most of Africa the province of affairs is completely different: almost all workers are inwards the informal sector, whether inwards agriculture or informal manufacturing together with services. Those who tin flaming work, must, every bit the province social security cyberspace barely exists.
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At acquaint nosotros don’t receive got a goodness respond to how regime should best ensure that platforms give a fair part of the profits to workers; rather the trends seem to live that platforms concentrate the returns to upper-case missive of the alphabet together with intellectual property. But perchance African governments volition live able to Pb the way inwards policy, starting with a realistic recognition of where the workers are: inwards the gig economy.
Amolo Ng’weno & David Porteous for the Center for Global Development with a genuinely corking postal service that looks behind the discourse of the 'gig economy' inwards Africa. I'm simply a fleck less optimistic that African countries volition non simply reckon an expansion of platform capitalism that nosotros receive got been witnessing elsewhere.

What Can We Do About The White Savior Complex?
“Some of the biggest national evolution agencies around today were genuinely created earlier colonialism ended. They worked inwards places similar Africa together with Asia. Their initial run was genuinely nether the governing structures of colonialism, right? So at that topographic point is a deep history that’s connected to that, together with what that agency is that it permeates some of the cultural practices together with fifty-fifty the discourse around international evolution inwards philanthropy that’s practiced today.” – Solome Lemma
Tiny Sparks podcast featuring Lydia Namubiru,
Angela Bruce Raeburn, Solome Lemma, Jennifer Lentfer together with Teddy Ruge.
More Than Me: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tragic failure of philanthropy
Here’s the thing, though: Katie Meyler didn’t create More Than Me on her own. She had lots of help. She has been financed yesteryear foundations together with USA regime agencies that, arguably, should receive got known better, especially 1 time the rapes came to light; she won a popularity competition funded yesteryear JPMorgan Chase that awarded More Than Me a httpsm prize to create MTM Academy; she was repeatedly lauded yesteryear credulous reporters; together with she benefited from the persistent appeal of what has been called the white savior complex, a mindset that regards people inwards Africa, especially children, every bit helpless victims awaiting rescued yesteryear western do-gooders.
Marc Gunther for Nonprofit Chronicles on how the More Than Me debacle should enhance some ruby flags for component of the #globaldev together with philanthropy industry.
Interview: Why the ICRC is Turning to Crowdfunding
Delegations approach us with their projection that must ideally live small, concrete together with easily implementable on the ground.
There is a listing of criteria that helps our squad to select the type of projects nosotros select:
Projects must improve the province of affairs of people affected yesteryear armed conflict or other situations of violence real concretely. They demand to assist categories of people with specific vulnerabilities, such as, for instance, children, people with disabilities or the elderly. It should also live projects that are appealing to the world – something that volition provide a compelling message or promote a real specific induce so that the audience tin flaming genuinely connect to it. As mentioned, projects should live easily together with apace implemented, with uncomplicated together with measurable outcomes. Finally, the in conclusion amount to live raised should live reasonable to guarantee the success of the project.
Timo Luege speak to Coline Rapneau for Social Media for Good. I am non solely convinced that ICRC needs to come inwards the crowded crowd-funding marketplace. I am also non solely convinced most whether this is an effective way for a global instrumentalist similar ICRC to run projects or whether it risks turning into PR together with superficial communication for development...

Surprise (or not)! Toy-in-soap intervention increases handwashing with kids inwards emergency contexts
Watson, et al. present an intervention focused on motivations without health-based messaging inwards a non-school setting for older kids tin flaming live successful, fifty-fifty inwards an emergency context. That’s goodness tidings for a few reasons. Previous handwashing with lather query has shown that wellness is non an effective conduct modify motivator. Additionally, the toy-in-soap intervention tin flaming live implemented yesteryear patch staff without requiring additional formal grooming which tin flaming relieve fourth dimension together with coin yesteryear avoiding time-intensive trainings. Response times are key during emergencies, together with the authors provide evidence that an intervention could live scaled apace together with inwards a cost-effective way. Before reading this novel article, I never thought that toys within lather could brand such a divergence with increasing handwashing. It feels similar mutual sense though, yes?
Corey White for Research for Evidence. N=40 is a fleck of a smaller sample size, but an interesting update on mitt washing campaigns, every C4Ds person's favorite social modify projection ;)!

Who wants to live a Volunteer? Book Review
firstly, at that topographic point is almost no evidence cited from query on the actual impact of volunteering – simply a string of anecdotes together with reminiscences. There must live to a greater extent than than that out there, surely? What impact does sustained exposure to volunteering receive got on norms, community cohesion, social mobility together with income? Would appreciate some links together with references. Even to a greater extent than alarming is the almost total absence of the volunteered-upon – the families together with communities who host those 10 1 chiliad k arrivals every year, with all the attendant disruption together with mutual incomprehension. Hundreds of volunteers are quoted inwards the book, talking most how much they’ve learned, how naïve they were at get-go etc etc. But at that topographic point is hardly anything from members of the ‘community’ they are trying to help, together with precious few thoughts from local NGOs either. That simply feels wrong.
Duncan Green for fp2p also reviews 'Learning Service' together with adds some of import aspects that in all likelihood require some other volume on that topic...

More Than Me: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tragic failure of philanthropy
Here’s the thing, though: Katie Meyler didn’t create More Than Me on her own. She had lots of help. She has been financed yesteryear foundations together with USA regime agencies that, arguably, should receive got known better, especially 1 time the rapes came to light; she won a popularity competition funded yesteryear JPMorgan Chase that awarded More Than Me a httpm prize to create MTM Academy; she was repeatedly lauded yesteryear credulous reporters; together with she benefited from the persistent appeal of what has been called the white savior complex, a mindset that regards people inwards Africa, especially children, every bit helpless victims awaiting rescued yesteryear western do-gooders.
Marc Gunther for Nonprofit Chronicles on how the More Than Me debacle should enhance some ruby flags for component of the #globaldev together with philanthropy industry.
Interview: Why the ICRC is Turning to Crowdfunding
Delegations approach us with their projection that must ideally live small, concrete together with easily implementable on the ground.
There is a listing of criteria that helps our squad to select the type of projects nosotros select:
Projects must improve the province of affairs of people affected yesteryear armed conflict or other situations of violence real concretely. They demand to assist categories of people with specific vulnerabilities, such as, for instance, children, people with disabilities or the elderly. It should also live projects that are appealing to the world – something that volition provide a compelling message or promote a real specific induce so that the audience tin flaming genuinely connect to it. As mentioned, projects should live easily together with apace implemented, with uncomplicated together with measurable outcomes. Finally, the in conclusion amount to live raised should live reasonable to guarantee the success of the project.
Timo Luege speak to Coline Rapneau for Social Media for Good. I am non solely convinced that ICRC needs to come inwards the crowded crowd-funding marketplace. I am also non solely convinced most whether this is an effective way for a global instrumentalist similar ICRC to run projects or whether it risks turning into PR together with superficial communication for development...

Surprise (or not)! Toy-in-soap intervention increases handwashing with kids inwards emergency contexts
Watson, et al. present an intervention focused on motivations without health-based messaging inwards a non-school setting for older kids tin flaming live successful, fifty-fifty inwards an emergency context. That’s goodness tidings for a few reasons. Previous handwashing with lather query has shown that wellness is non an effective conduct modify motivator. Additionally, the toy-in-soap intervention tin flaming live implemented yesteryear patch staff without requiring additional formal grooming which tin flaming relieve fourth dimension together with coin yesteryear avoiding time-intensive trainings. Response times are key during emergencies, together with the authors provide evidence that an intervention could live scaled apace together with inwards a cost-effective way. Before reading this novel article, I never thought that toys within lather could brand such a divergence with increasing handwashing. It feels similar mutual sense though, yes?
Corey White for Research for Evidence. N=40 is a fleck of a smaller sample size, but an interesting update on mitt washing campaigns, every C4Ds person's favorite social modify projection ;)!

Who wants to live a Volunteer? Book Review
firstly, at that topographic point is almost no evidence cited from query on the actual impact of volunteering – simply a string of anecdotes together with reminiscences. There must live to a greater extent than than that out there, surely? What impact does sustained exposure to volunteering receive got on norms, community cohesion, social mobility together with income? Would appreciate some links together with references. Even to a greater extent than alarming is the almost total absence of the volunteered-upon – the families together with communities who host those 10 1 chiliad k arrivals every year, with all the attendant disruption together with mutual incomprehension. Hundreds of volunteers are quoted inwards the book, talking most how much they’ve learned, how naïve they were at get-go etc etc. But at that topographic point is hardly anything from members of the ‘community’ they are trying to help, together with precious few thoughts from local NGOs either. That simply feels wrong.
Duncan Green for fp2p also Profit Inflation, Keynes together with the Holocaust inwards Bengal, 1943–44
History is the only laboratory that the scholar of the social sciences has. The holocaust inwards Bengal holds of import lessons for analysing the electrical flow situation. It tells us that large-scale resources extraction entailing economical genocide, is something that imperialist countries could acquire away with quite easily, attributing it to natural causes together with abnormal external conditions. Owing to such misinformation, non a unmarried demand was raised inwards Republic of Republic of India yesteryear patriotic political leaders or yesteryear whatsoever world intellectual, that the Allies should pay reparations for the lives wantonly lost owing to the extreme together with inhumane stair out of resources extraction from a population already greatly impoverished yesteryear preceding decades of tax-financed transfers together with yesteryear the Depression. Barring private exceptions, fifty-fifty the most intelligent persons inwards the terra firma who genuinely lived through the famine period, could live conceptually quite blind every bit regards its existent cause. Or, if they did know the existent cause, every bit perchance some of Keynes’s brightest Indian students did, they constitute it expedient to maintain silence.
It should non surprise us that at that topographic point continues to live neo-imperialist resources extraction from the peasantry inwards Republic of Republic of India every bit indeed inwards other developing countries today, which is neither recognised nor analysed every bit such, imposing a prolonged toll on the lives of peasants together with of little producers generally. Demand management is a two-edged weapon: it tin flaming live “virtuous finance” when used to expand world spending judiciously together with cut unemployment. Equally, when particular dominant Northern imperialist interests require a compression of volume consumption inwards developing countries to release primary resources for their ain benefit, so these dominant interests tin flaming together with do force for the implementing of “vicious finance” yesteryear national governments, yesteryear peddling wrong together with self-serving theories.
Utsa Patnaik for the Economic & Political Weekly with historical long-read on the Bengal famine.

More Than Me: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tragic failure of philanthropy
Here’s the thing, though: Katie Meyler didn’t create More Than Me on her own. She had lots of help. She has been financed yesteryear foundations together with USA regime agencies that, arguably, should receive got known better, especially 1 time the rapes came to light; she won a popularity competition funded yesteryear JPMorgan Chase that awarded More Than Me a httpsm prize to create MTM Academy; she was repeatedly lauded yesteryear credulous reporters; together with she benefited from the persistent appeal of what has been called the white savior complex, a mindset that regards people inwards Africa, especially children, every bit helpless victims awaiting rescued yesteryear western do-gooders.
Marc Gunther for Nonprofit Chronicles on how the More Than Me debacle should enhance some ruby flags for component of the #globaldev together with philanthropy industry.
Interview: Why the ICRC is Turning to Crowdfunding
Delegations approach us with their projection that must ideally live small, concrete together with easily implementable on the ground.
There is a listing of criteria that helps our squad to select the type of projects nosotros select:
Projects must improve the province of affairs of people affected yesteryear armed conflict or other situations of violence real concretely. They demand to assist categories of people with specific vulnerabilities, such as, for instance, children, people with disabilities or the elderly. It should also live projects that are appealing to the world – something that volition provide a compelling message or promote a real specific induce so that the audience tin flaming genuinely connect to it. As mentioned, projects should live easily together with apace implemented, with uncomplicated together with measurable outcomes. Finally, the in conclusion amount to live raised should live reasonable to guarantee the success of the project.
Timo Luege speak to Coline Rapneau for Social Media for Good. I am non solely convinced that ICRC needs to come inwards the crowded crowd-funding marketplace. I am also non solely convinced most whether this is an effective way for a global instrumentalist similar ICRC to run projects or whether it risks turning into PR together with superficial communication for development...

Surprise (or not)! Toy-in-soap intervention increases handwashing with kids inwards emergency contexts
Watson, et al. present an intervention focused on motivations without health-based messaging inwards a non-school setting for older kids tin flaming live successful, fifty-fifty inwards an emergency context. That’s goodness tidings for a few reasons. Previous handwashing with lather query has shown that wellness is non an effective conduct modify motivator. Additionally, the toy-in-soap intervention tin flaming live implemented yesteryear patch staff without requiring additional formal grooming which tin flaming relieve fourth dimension together with coin yesteryear avoiding time-intensive trainings. Response times are key during emergencies, together with the authors provide evidence that an intervention could live scaled apace together with inwards a cost-effective way. Before reading this novel article, I never thought that toys within lather could brand such a divergence with increasing handwashing. It feels similar mutual sense though, yes?
Corey White for Research for Evidence. N=40 is a fleck of a smaller sample size, but an interesting update on mitt washing campaigns, every C4Ds person's favorite social modify projection ;)!

Who wants to live a Volunteer? Book Review
firstly, at that topographic point is almost no evidence cited from query on the actual impact of volunteering – simply a string of anecdotes together with reminiscences. There must live to a greater extent than than that out there, surely? What impact does sustained exposure to volunteering receive got on norms, community cohesion, social mobility together with income? Would appreciate some links together with references. Even to a greater extent than alarming is the almost total absence of the volunteered-upon – the families together with communities who host those 10 1 chiliad k arrivals every year, with all the attendant disruption together with mutual incomprehension. Hundreds of volunteers are quoted inwards the book, talking most how much they’ve learned, how naïve they were at get-go etc etc. But at that topographic point is hardly anything from members of the ‘community’ they are trying to help, together with precious few thoughts from local NGOs either. That simply feels wrong.
Duncan Green for fp2p also Stan wojenny: My memories of the (post) Martial Law
The Polish regime together with its agencies were totally technocratic. This was real unlike from Yugoslavia where its home-grown scheme of “socialist workers' management”, consummate with complicated ideological “baggage”, made the regime thoroughly ideological. In Poland, the communist ideology was dead--since 1968. Only the linguistic communication of technocracy existed.
Branko Milanovic for globalinequality reflects on the days when he visited Poland every bit a World Bank staffer.

More Than Me: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tragic failure of philanthropy
Here’s the thing, though: Katie Meyler didn’t create More Than Me on her own. She had lots of help. She has been financed yesteryear foundations together with USA regime agencies that, arguably, should receive got known better, especially 1 time the rapes came to light; she won a popularity competition funded yesteryear JPMorgan Chase that awarded More Than Me a httpm prize to create MTM Academy; she was repeatedly lauded yesteryear credulous reporters; together with she benefited from the persistent appeal of what has been called the white savior complex, a mindset that regards people inwards Africa, especially children, every bit helpless victims awaiting rescued yesteryear western do-gooders.
Marc Gunther for Nonprofit Chronicles on how the More Than Me debacle should enhance some ruby flags for component of the #globaldev together with philanthropy industry.
Interview: Why the ICRC is Turning to Crowdfunding
Delegations approach us with their projection that must ideally live small, concrete together with easily implementable on the ground.
There is a listing of criteria that helps our squad to select the type of projects nosotros select:
Projects must improve the province of affairs of people affected yesteryear armed conflict or other situations of violence real concretely. They demand to assist categories of people with specific vulnerabilities, such as, for instance, children, people with disabilities or the elderly. It should also live projects that are appealing to the world – something that volition provide a compelling message or promote a real specific induce so that the audience tin flaming genuinely connect to it. As mentioned, projects should live easily together with apace implemented, with uncomplicated together with measurable outcomes. Finally, the in conclusion amount to live raised should live reasonable to guarantee the success of the project.
Timo Luege speak to Coline Rapneau for Social Media for Good. I am non solely convinced that ICRC needs to come inwards the crowded crowd-funding marketplace. I am also non solely convinced most whether this is an effective way for a global instrumentalist similar ICRC to run projects or whether it risks turning into PR together with superficial communication for development...

Surprise (or not)! Toy-in-soap intervention increases handwashing with kids inwards emergency contexts
Watson, et al. present an intervention focused on motivations without health-based messaging inwards a non-school setting for older kids tin flaming live successful, fifty-fifty inwards an emergency context. That’s goodness tidings for a few reasons. Previous handwashing with lather query has shown that wellness is non an effective conduct modify motivator. Additionally, the toy-in-soap intervention tin flaming live implemented yesteryear patch staff without requiring additional formal grooming which tin flaming relieve fourth dimension together with coin yesteryear avoiding time-intensive trainings. Response times are key during emergencies, together with the authors provide evidence that an intervention could live scaled apace together with inwards a cost-effective way. Before reading this novel article, I never thought that toys within lather could brand such a divergence with increasing handwashing. It feels similar mutual sense though, yes?
Corey White for Research for Evidence. N=40 is a fleck of a smaller sample size, but an interesting update on mitt washing campaigns, every C4Ds person's favorite social modify projection ;)!

Who wants to live a Volunteer? Book Review
firstly, at that topographic point is almost no evidence cited from query on the actual impact of volunteering – simply a string of anecdotes together with reminiscences. There must live to a greater extent than than that out there, surely? What impact does sustained exposure to volunteering receive got on norms, community cohesion, social mobility together with income? Would appreciate some links together with references. Even to a greater extent than alarming is the almost total absence of the volunteered-upon – the families together with communities who host those 10 1 chiliad k arrivals every year, with all the attendant disruption together with mutual incomprehension. Hundreds of volunteers are quoted inwards the book, talking most how much they’ve learned, how naïve they were at get-go etc etc. But at that topographic point is hardly anything from members of the ‘community’ they are trying to help, together with precious few thoughts from local NGOs either. That simply feels wrong.
Duncan Green for fp2p also 29 deaths inwards 28 days after 25 years: thoughts on burning out together with smoldering on
Tomorrow volition in all likelihood convey a 30th decease for the month. It volition in all likelihood convey some disappointment, some mistakes, something of import nosotros miss, some longing for those nosotros love, some awareness of our weakness together with temptation to cover or pretend. But nosotros pray for ourselves together with those nosotros supervise that tomorrow volition also convey eyes broad opened upward to the deeper realities, curiosity to investigate together with delve deep, connecter with others, together with a few laughs. And a beat that paces us into the side yesteryear side 25.
Scott & Jennifer Myhre for Paradox Uganda. Perhaps I thought most including this postal service for a fleck likewise long. But inwards the end, despite my personal reservations most 'doing God's work' anywhere inwards the the world I decided that it provides substantial nutrient for thought when nosotros retrieve most 'resilience' together with dealing with the stress of assist work.

Our digital lives
Why Visa Privilege is a Press Freedom Issue
Despite espousing a belief inwards liberty of appear together with often criticizing other countries for their lack of press freedom, countries inwards the European Union often acquaint astounding barriers to journalists traveling hither for professional person reasons. From large, non-refundable fees, to invitation missive of the alphabet requirements, to pre-booked flights together with random, unexplained rejections, the European Union makes it hard — and sometimes impossible — for journalists from other countries to locomote hither for conferences, run together with research.In social club to convey journalists to Warsaw for less than a calendar week for our conference, nosotros had to navigate a breathtakingly arbitrary laid of standards for each terra firma that appeared chiefly designed to brand the applicant surrender on their wishing to exit their country, fifty-fifty briefly.
Christina Lee for hostwriter with an of import indicate most the ability of Northern passports & Visa regimes inwards the context of journalism.

Sex Is Not the Problem with Sex Work
Just because a task is bad does non hateful it is non a “real job.” When sexual practice workers assert that sexual practice run is work, nosotros are proverb that nosotros demand rights. We are non proverb that run is goodness or fun, or fifty-fifty harmless, nor that it has fundamental value. Likewise, situating what nosotros do within a workers’-rights framework does non constitute an unconditional endorsement of run itself. It is non an endorsement of capitalism or of a bigger, to a greater extent than profitable sexual practice industry. “People retrieve the indicate of our organization [the National Organization for the Emancipation of Women inwards a State of Prostitution] is [to] expand prostitution inwards Bolivia,” says activist Yuly Perez. “In fact, nosotros wishing the opposite. Our ideal the world is 1 gratis of the economical desperation that forces women into this business.”
Juno Mac & Molly Smith for the Boston Review with a real interesting excerpt from their latest book.

Journalism While Brown together with When to Walk Away
When a floor or column does non adequately, if at all, empathise or consider the perspectives of the nonwhite people it involves, what do you lot say? When a floor involving people of color is assigned with a colour-blind lens together with a faux sense of objectivity, what do you lot do? When you lot pitch projects on race together with multiple times reckon the boss prefer a race-related projection pitched yesteryear a mortal who is white, regardless of your read of the room, what is your recourse? When you lot ultimately halt pitching stories on race to save your ain sanity, what goodness are you lot doing the real nonwhite people whose perspectives you lot deem yourself to live inwards the newsroom to share?
How many battles do you lot receive got inwards you?
I decided to exit The Globe together with Mail because that in conclusion conversation within the bureau chief’s component crystallized what I had felt: What I brought to the newsroom did non matter. And it was at that 2nd that beingness a mortal of color at a paper together with inwards an manufacture that does non receive got plenty of us — particularly at the top — felt to a greater extent than futile than e'er before.
Sunny Dhillon on why he left Canada's Globe & Mail newspaper.

Publications
Nudge Fudge Leaves Policy Makers inwards the Dark
By harnessing psychological research, governments across the the world are trying to shape our behavior. While they are popular, our findings break that based on the OECD report, these psychological techniques are unreliable. The mutual declaration inwards back upward of using them is that they are toll effective, but hither also at that topographic point is nil inwards the study that helps the world assess if these psychological methods, when they work, are to a greater extent than toll effective compared to typical methods used yesteryear governments (e.g., taxes, bans, tariffs, mandates).
Magda Osman for Psychology Today on the limits of behavioral economics.

Assessing DFID’s results inwards improving Maternal Health
We were unable to confirm DFID’s global results claim on saving maternal lives, owing to shortcomings inwards the way it estimated the impacts of its programmes.
DFID’s policies prioritised reaching pitiable together with immature women but only a few programmes identified specific mechanisms or laid targets for reaching these key groups. Furthermore, real few programmes disaggregated their results, making it impossible to determine the impact of DFID programming on poor, immature or otherwise hard-to-reach women together with girls.
DFID has been a potent advocate for women’s together with girls’ rights internationally but could do to a greater extent than to reinforce this at community grade inwards priority countries.
We constitute that DFID’s maternal wellness programming during the Results Framework menstruation had a limited focus on the long-term evolution of wellness scheme infrastructure together with institutions.
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact takes a closer await at maternal wellness projects.

Information together with Communications for Development 2018 : Data-Driven Development
The Information together with Communications for Development study takes an in-depth await at how information together with communication technologies (ICT) are impacting economical growth inwards developing countries. This novel report, the quaternary inwards the series, examines the theme of data-driven development, or how ameliorate information makes for ameliorate policies. The objective is to assist developing terra firma firms together with governments to unlock the value of the information they take away hold for ameliorate service delivery together with determination making, together with to empower individuals to receive got to a greater extent than command of their personal data. The chapters of the study explore unlike themes associated with the furnish of data, the technology scientific discipline underlying it, together with the demand for it.
The World Bank with a More Than Me: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tragic failure of philanthropy
Here’s the thing, though: Katie Meyler didn’t create More Than Me on her own. She had lots of help. She has been financed yesteryear foundations together with USA regime agencies that, arguably, should receive got known better, especially 1 time the rapes came to light; she won a popularity competition funded yesteryear JPMorgan Chase that awarded More Than Me a httpm prize to create MTM Academy; she was repeatedly lauded yesteryear credulous reporters; together with she benefited from the persistent appeal of what has been called the white savior complex, a mindset that regards people inwards Africa, especially children, every bit helpless victims awaiting rescued yesteryear western do-gooders.
Marc Gunther for Nonprofit Chronicles on how the More Than Me debacle should enhance some ruby flags for component of the #globaldev together with philanthropy industry.
Interview: Why the ICRC is Turning to Crowdfunding
Delegations approach us with their projection that must ideally live small, concrete together with easily implementable on the ground.
There is a listing of criteria that helps our squad to select the type of projects nosotros select:
Projects must improve the province of affairs of people affected yesteryear armed conflict or other situations of violence real concretely. They demand to assist categories of people with specific vulnerabilities, such as, for instance, children, people with disabilities or the elderly. It should also live projects that are appealing to the world – something that volition provide a compelling message or promote a real specific induce so that the audience tin flaming genuinely connect to it. As mentioned, projects should live easily together with apace implemented, with uncomplicated together with measurable outcomes. Finally, the in conclusion amount to live raised should live reasonable to guarantee the success of the project.
Timo Luege speak to Coline Rapneau for Social Media for Good. I am non solely convinced that ICRC needs to come inwards the crowded crowd-funding marketplace. I am also non solely convinced most whether this is an effective way for a global instrumentalist similar ICRC to run projects or whether it risks turning into PR together with superficial communication for development...

Surprise (or not)! Toy-in-soap intervention increases handwashing with kids inwards emergency contexts
Watson, et al. present an intervention focused on motivations without health-based messaging inwards a non-school setting for older kids tin flaming live successful, fifty-fifty inwards an emergency context. That’s goodness tidings for a few reasons. Previous handwashing with lather query has shown that wellness is non an effective conduct modify motivator. Additionally, the toy-in-soap intervention tin flaming live implemented yesteryear patch staff without requiring additional formal grooming which tin flaming relieve fourth dimension together with coin yesteryear avoiding time-intensive trainings. Response times are key during emergencies, together with the authors provide evidence that an intervention could live scaled apace together with inwards a cost-effective way. Before reading this novel article, I never thought that toys within lather could brand such a divergence with increasing handwashing. It feels similar mutual sense though, yes?
Corey White for Research for Evidence. N=40 is a fleck of a smaller sample size, but an interesting update on mitt washing campaigns, every C4Ds person's favorite social modify projection ;)!

Who wants to live a Volunteer? Book Review
firstly, at that topographic point is almost no evidence cited from query on the actual impact of volunteering – simply a string of anecdotes together with reminiscences. There must live to a greater extent than than that out there, surely? What impact does sustained exposure to volunteering receive got on norms, community cohesion, social mobility together with income? Would appreciate some links together with references. Even to a greater extent than alarming is the almost total absence of the volunteered-upon – the families together with communities who host those 10 1 chiliad k arrivals every year, with all the attendant disruption together with mutual incomprehension. Hundreds of volunteers are quoted inwards the book, talking most how much they’ve learned, how naïve they were at get-go etc etc. But at that topographic point is hardly anything from members of the ‘community’ they are trying to help, together with precious few thoughts from local NGOs either. That simply feels wrong.
Duncan Green for fp2p also report that I volition read to a greater extent than closely this time...

The Politics of Development Metrics together with Measurement: Impact Evaluations inwards Fairtrade‐certified Plantation Agriculture
This article presents an analysis of impact evaluations inwards the example of Fairtrade International inwards social club to runway the political effects of metrics together with measuring procedures inwards evolution do today. Metrics or ‘indicators’ receive got long been understood to receive got the trial of transforming the political visions of socioeconomic modify that shape evolution interventions into seemingly non‐contentious, technical models. (...)
The authors find, first, that debates over competing visions or definitions of evolution became concealed inwards technical debates over adequate metrics together with measurements; and, second, that such debates over metrics together with measuring consolidated the roles of experts together with proficient knowledge every bit mediators of what evolution tin flaming or should be.
Angus Lyall & Elizabeth Havice with a novel article inwards Development & Change which is currently gratis to access. 

Academia
Rewiring Puerto Rico: Power together with Empowerment after Hurricane Maria
Understanding what happened inwards Puerto Rico paints a painting of what could hap 1 time to a greater extent than elsewhere inwards the region. It is of import to acknowledge, too, that to a greater extent than than its electrical grid is inwards disrepair. Similar problems of governance, financing, together with equity are reproduced across diverse sectors every bit the isle rebuilds, with them: housing, forestry, tourism, healthcare, education, water, coastal management, together with more. Yet, the enduring spirit of Puerto Ricans is captured yesteryear a slogan that began to circulate non long after the tempest subsided: Puerto Rico se levanta. Puerto Rico volition rise. In this critical 2nd of rewiring comes an chance to convey ideas most innovative approaches for resilience into light.
Lily Bui for Alternautas with some anthropological reflections on 'rewiring' Puerto Rico physically together with decolonially.

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