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Hi all,

A good, rich, interesting #globaldev calendar week is coming to its end!

Development news: International Monetary Fund doesn't similar global consultancies (no, really!); novel humanitarians; DfID's privatization; don't believe the Gates & Pinkers of the world! UNDP reform, Vol. XXVI; Scammers target Finland's evolution funds; current myths; Pakistan's medico bride myths; women empowerment information myths; a private safety companionship disappeared inwards Afghanistan; Senegal's novel museum of dark civilizations; Cacao & blockchain; altruism meets voluntourism; Chiwetel Ejiofor inwards Malawi; humanitarian dogs; musicians inwards DRC.

Our digital lives: Facebook sell-outs.

Publications: How to live a goodness guest; UNDP & media engagement; a mass on goodness data.

Academia: Sleep, exhausting & beingness a dark adult woman inwards academia; MOOCs didn't disrupt much; an autoethnography of enquiry application writing.

Enjoy!

Development news
IMF main tells misfortunate countries to cutting exercise of global consultancy firms

“I’m looking around to consider whether at that topographic point are whatever of the McKinseys together with Boston Consulting Groups, together with if at that topographic point are delight hear to me.
“I consider many, many low-income countries together with emerging-market economies pass millions of dollars commissioning consultants to construct their strategy plan. I would recommend some saving live made past times taking the 17 principles, the actionable items, together with start amongst that.
“From there, the consultants tin really create their task of putting it into reality. But don’t reinvent it — it’s correct there. So much is wasted. That’s business office of the inefficient spending that tin really live saved.”

Tom Belger for Yahoo Lifestyle amongst a fascinating quote past times Christine Lagarde criticizing global consultancies' involvement inwards #globaldev.

Reform Clouds Darken the Future of the United Nations Development Program

In a oral communication to his executive board on Jan. 21, Steiner acknowledged that the novel construction of United Nations evolution operate volition require important staff changes. But he assured board members that “we made an extraordinary endeavor to re-staff UNDP’s leadership cadre at province flat inwards minimal time. . . . This exercise marked ane of the largest together with most complex leadership recruitments inwards UNDP’s history.”
Steiner said he had recruited 140 candidates qualified to serve as resident representatives nether UNDP command to compensate for the loss of those representatives who became resident coordinators, working for Mohammed. (Robert Piper of Commonwealth of Australia is heading the transition team, reporting to Mohammed.)
Through all the reshuffling, Steiner reported, “Our RR [resident representative] candidate puddle is instantly 50/50 gender balanced together with as geographically diverse.”
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“With the rearrangement of the chairs,” she said, “my fright would live that at that topographic point would live to a greater extent than politically motivated appointments as RCs [resident coordinators] together with less ideas-driven entrepreneurial individuals committed to cosmopolitan values together with cognition of development.”

Barbara Crossette for PassBlue amongst an update from UNDP on the never-ending storey that is 'UN reforms'...

Finland’s Foreign Ministry falls for €400K electronic mail scam

Scammers are suspected of duping the Finnish Foreign Ministry into handing over some 400,000 euros inwards evolution funds lastly February, according to the National Bureau of Investigation.

yle amongst a storey from Finland-most of the coin has been recovered but withal an interesting novel induce got on Internet-based scams...

New Book Busts Myths About Menstruation Spread By Public Health Groups

"Stigma compromises well for you lot engagement amongst one's body. It undermines self-care, critical thinking together with informed decision-making. It likewise hurts self-esteem together with social status," says Bobel.
In recent years, Bobel, an associate professor of women's, gender together with sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, says a major motion has emerged to back upward these girls.
But some of the activists' efforts induce got been misguided, says Bobel. "While these [groups] are busting [some] myths close menstruation, they're perpetuating other myths," she says.

Malaka Gharib for NPR Goats & Soda introduces Chris Bobel's interesting new, albeit a flake expensive, book. As amongst most aspects of the #globaldev discourse this is an interesting representative study close the might together with shortcomings of catchy statistics, products to 'fix' problems & approaching deep-rooted local challenges from a Westernized perspective.

The Myth of 'Doctor Brides'

A woman individual player expressed that “most men create non desire equal life partners together with create non permit their wives work” whereas a manly individual player added that piece “every human being wants his immature adult woman to live a doctor, most men create non permit their wives [practice].”
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The solution lies inwards resolving the structural barriers within medicine for both women together with men past times improving the lineament of preparation programs, increasing salaries for trainee physicians together with providing facilities for women, such as flexible working hours together with day-care centres, practical steps which induce got been taken past times other countries.
Moreover, considering the embedded social norms of gender roles within the Pakistani society, it would seem to us that the Chief Justice’s proposition to women to convince their families to operate is unlikely to atomic number 82 to practical results. Allowances together with social changes must evolve from within the scheme amongst the hope that the gild volition evolve gradually, together with thence intermission downwardly strict gender roles that entrap men together with women both.
However, inwards the brusk run, addressing some of the immediate issues the study highlights including misfortunate together with unstructured postgraduate preparation systems, together with lack of basic facilities would pave the way inwards resolving the number of physician shortages.

Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani & Farhat Moazam for Dawn on gender roles & expectations together with medical educational activity inwards Pakistan.

Spooked past times a Ghost Statistic: Challenges to How We Approach Women’s Empowerment

If nosotros are beingness honest, isn’t this why instrumentalist narratives persist fifty-fifty inwards organizations amongst transformative missions? CARE struggles to clearly explicate the complexity of our operate to an audience that is sometimes uncomfortable amongst together with potentially hostile to the requirements of profound systemic change. So nosotros offering simplified narratives, ghostly or not, together with speak the incontrovertible linguistic communication of investment returns as an choice to deeply political concepts of gender jurist together with human dignity.

Hilary Mathews for CARE reflects on Kathryn Moeller's recent essay on women empowerment's ghost statistics (also featured inwards link review 307) & the challenges of communicating complex #globaldev topics inwards the framework of Care's work.

Reform Clouds Darken the Future of the United Nations Development Program

In a oral communication to his executive board on Jan. 21, Steiner acknowledged that the novel construction of United Nations evolution operate volition require important staff changes. But he assured board members that “we made an extraordinary endeavor to re-staff UNDP’s leadership cadre at province flat inwards minimal time. . . . This exercise marked ane of the largest together with most complex leadership recruitments inwards UNDP’s history.”
Steiner said he had recruited 140 candidates qualified to serve as resident representatives nether UNDP command to compensate for the loss of those representatives who became resident coordinators, working for Mohammed. (Robert Piper of Commonwealth of Australia is heading the transition team, reporting to Mohammed.)
Through all the reshuffling, Steiner reported, “Our RR [resident representative] candidate puddle is instantly 50/50 gender balanced together with as geographically diverse.”
(...)
“With the rearrangement of the chairs,” she said, “my fright would live that at that topographic point would live to a greater extent than politically motivated appointments as RCs [resident coordinators] together with less ideas-driven entrepreneurial individuals committed to cosmopolitan values together with cognition of development.”

Barbara Crossette for PassBlue amongst an update from UNDP on the never-ending storey that is 'UN reforms'...

Finland’s Foreign Ministry falls for €400K electronic mail scam

Scammers are suspected of duping the Finnish Foreign Ministry into handing over some 400,000 euros inwards evolution funds lastly February, according to the National Bureau of Investigation.

yle amongst a storey from Finland-most of the coin has been recovered but withal an interesting novel induce got on Internet-based scams...

New Book Busts Myths About Menstruation Spread By Public Health Groups

"Stigma compromises well for you lot engagement amongst one's body. It undermines self-care, critical thinking together with informed decision-making. It likewise hurts self-esteem together with social status," says Bobel.
In recent years, Bobel, an associate professor of women's, gender together with sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, says a major motion has emerged to back upward these girls.
But some of the activists' efforts induce got been misguided, says Bobel. "While these [groups] are busting [some] myths close menstruation, they're perpetuating other myths," she says.

Malaka Gharib for NPR Goats & Soda introduces Chris Bobel's interesting new, albeit a flake expensive, book. As amongst most aspects of the #globaldev discourse this is an interesting representative study close the might together with shortcomings of catchy statistics, products to 'fix' problems & approaching deep-rooted local challenges from a Westernized perspective.

The Myth of 'Doctor Brides'

A woman individual player expressed that “most men create non desire equal life partners together with create non permit their wives work” whereas a manly individual player added that piece “every human being wants his immature adult woman to live a doctor, most men create non permit their wives [practice].”
(...)
The solution lies inwards resolving the structural barriers within medicine for both women together with men past times improving the lineament of preparation programs, increasing salaries for trainee physicians together with providing facilities for women, such as flexible working hours together with day-care centres, practical steps which induce got been taken past times other countries.
Moreover, considering the embedded social norms of gender roles within the Pakistani society, it would seem to us that the Chief Justice’s proposition to women to convince their families to operate is unlikely to atomic number 82 to practical results. Allowances together with social changes must evolve from within the scheme amongst the hope that the gild volition evolve gradually, together with thence intermission downwardly strict gender roles that entrap men together with women both.
However, inwards the brusk run, addressing some of the immediate issues the study highlights including misfortunate together with unstructured postgraduate preparation systems, together with lack of basic facilities would pave the way inwards resolving the number of physician shortages.

Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani & Farhat Moazam for Dawn on gender roles & expectations together with medical educational activity inwards Pakistan.

Spooked past times a Ghost Statistic: Challenges to How We Approach Women’s Empowerment

If nosotros are beingness honest, isn’t this why instrumentalist narratives persist fifty-fifty inwards organizations amongst transformative missions? CARE struggles to clearly explicate the complexity of our operate to an audience that is sometimes uncomfortable amongst together with potentially hostile to the requirements of profound systemic change. So nosotros offering simplified narratives, ghostly or not, together with speak the incontrovertible linguistic communication of investment returns as an choice to deeply political concepts of gender jurist together with human dignity.

Hilary Mathews for CARE reflects on Kathryn Moeller's recent essay on women empowerment's ghost statistics (also featured inwards UNDP’s Engagement amongst the Media for Governance, Sustainable Development together with Peace

New challenges together with opportunities brought close past times these transformations instantly intersect amongst longer-standing challenges to media pluralism, liberty together with independence.

Get a proper landing page, UNDP, so I don't induce got to post such meaningless blurbs! It looks similar an interesting publication, but delight brand at to the lowest degree a picayune endeavor to sell it to readers!

Good Data

Moving away from the strong trunk of critique of pervasive ‘bad data’ practices past times both governments together with private actors inwards the globalized digital economy, this mass aims to pigment an alternative, to a greater extent than optimistic but withal pragmatic pic of the datafied future. The authors examine together with advise ‘good data’ practices, values together with principles from an interdisciplinary, international perspective. From ideas of information sovereignty together with justice, to manifestos for alter together with calls for activism, this collection opens a multifaceted conversation on the kinds of futures nosotros desire to see, together with presents concrete steps on how nosotros tin start realizing goodness information inwards practice.

Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt & Monique Isle of Man amongst a novel edited book.

Academia
Better Sleep Habits Won't Save Me From the Exhaustion of Academia

The number isn’t precisely close the lineament of daily sleep. What I demand inwards monastic tell to finally, truly, ease is non precisely ameliorate slumber hygiene: I demand way together with autonomy over what I create amongst together with demand of my body. No number of goodness nights of slumber or nap scheduling tin substitute for beingness able to fully dictate what sort of operate you lot do, how you lot create it, together with when you lot create it. It isn’t precisely a lack of slumber that exhausts: I am exhausted past times the way I am alienated from the operate that I genuinely love—and, ultimately, my humanity. I am exhausted past times the fact that, for reasons I can’t control, I must select betwixt either working until I tin no longer remain awake or putting myself to slumber inwards monastic tell to live to a greater extent than efficient—never leisurely letting myself autumn into slumber.

Zoé Samudzi for Vice Broadly on beingness a dark academic & so much to a greater extent than than sleep...

Inspiring utter btw Ben Fine @SOASEconomics together with Michael Alvarez @UiB at CMI @cmi_no

How #PoliticalEconomy became economic science past times desocialisation together with dehistoricisation processes. Current economic science lack theory, a focus on processes, relationships,dynamics & an open-minded reflexivity. pic.twitter.com/p6NoEi3V00

— Hannah Pilgrim (@FRLXPilgrim) January 31, 2019

MOOCs neglect inwards their mission to disrupt higher education

The authors of the study, Justin Reich together with José H5N1 Ruipérez-Valiente, state the hope of a disruptive transformation of post-secondary educational activity heralded inwards 2012 – when it was showtime announced that video lectures from the world’s best professors could live broadcast to every corner of the basis via MOOCs – has non been realised.
The hope of extending access inwards areas barely reached past times traditional 3rd provision, amongst students beingness able to demonstrate their attainment online past times using figurer graded assessments, has non been fulfilled.
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It likewise calls into interrogation the might of MOOCs to extend higher educational activity participation into areas of the basis that traditional provision doesn’t gain together with predicts inwards time to come a greater concentration on those amongst the might to pay.

Brendan O’Malley for University World News amongst enquiry findings from the Captain Obvious project...

Dear SSHRC, What Do You Want? An Epistolary Narrative of Expertise, Identity, together with Time inwards Grant Writing

This autoethnographic study provides an insider perspective on the intellectual, emotional, together with physical sense of grant writing. H5N1 squad of scholars document the production of a enquiry grant for their major national funding agency, the Social Sciences together with Humanities Research Council of Canada. The storey is presented through epistolary narrative inwards the cast of a serial of unsent letters addressed to the funding agency. The letters foreground themes of expertise, identity, together with fourth dimension as they were shaped through the grant-writing process. The analysis draws attending to unnecessary complexities together with challenges that could together with should live eliminated from granting processes if the intention is to foster lineament enquiry together with strengthen enquiry capacity.

Michelle K. McGinn, Sandra Acker, Marie Vander Kloet & Anne Wagner amongst an opened upward access article inwards FQS.