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Hi all,

If y'all are celebrating Easter y'all are in all probability looking for some adept readings for the long weekend!

Development news: AP investigates United Nations peacekeeping troubles inward Haiti; do nosotros demand less humanitarian crises appeals? The complexities some outsourcing surrogacy; extreme poverty to ascent inward Southern Africa; Skoll World Forum betwixt excogitation & buzzword bingo; ICT4D failings some Syrian refugees; how to protect staff who receive got to sentinel digital atrocities? Aid worker lives inward the Philippines; Is ‘beg-packing’ a thing inward Asia? Finding a adept M&E guide; #allmalepanel.

Our digital lives: Who benefits from ‘fake news’? How Al Jazeera grew its video audience.

Publication: C4D Network Mapping study.

Academia: A syllabus for the refugee crisis; #OER17 was a adept conference; gendered academia & women’s service load; the extinct species of the unsafe academic.

Enjoy!

Development news
AP Exclusive: United Nations kid gender activity band left victims but no arrests
U.N. officials went to Republic of Haiti to investigate, but the Pakistanis abducted the man child to maintain him from detailing the abuse that had gone on for to a greater extent than than a year, according to Peter Gallo, a quondam U.N. investigator familiar alongside the case.
Finally, the men were tried inward a Pakistani armed forces tribunal, as well as eventually sent dorsum to Pakistan. In theory, the judicature could receive got allowed for amend access to witnesses, but it's unclear whether whatever were called. The Pakistani authorities also refused to let the U.N. to detect the proceedings. In the end, ane homo was sent to prison theatre for a year, according to Ariane Quentier, a spokeswoman for the Republic of Haiti mission.
"It's an indictment of how the whole U.N. scheme works," Gallo told the AP.
Pakistan's armed forces has refused several requests for comment on the case.
Paisley Dodds for AP highlights some of the inherit governance problems inward United Nations peacekeeping inward her detailed long-read. When undemocratic, untrained as well as unaccountable armed forces are deployed some the Earth to 'keep peace' they are exporting their ethos to other parts of the world. More coin for amend grooming as well as alternative of peacekeepers as well as a to a greater extent than substantial involvement of amend trained armies would live on a offset step-but it costs coin which no province is actually willing to invest as well as political effort; the United Nations pretty much needs to receive got the peacekeepers they larn offered-and inward Republic of Haiti it has done a lot of harm.

Crisis appeals toll us political action
Equally culpable are the evolution investments as well as political processes that receive got failed to resolve the protracted conflicts that force countries as well as communities to the brink.
So, rather than using fearfulness as well as compassion to enhance awareness as well as funds, why non usage social as well as mainstream media to tap into world scandalize as well as activism as well as address what set these countries inward crisis inward the offset place?
This way putting force per unit of measurement area on politicians to invest political uppercase as well as unloose energy into ending conflicts. It also way pushing assist agencies as well as their donors to human activity early on as well as alongside a substantial injection of funds to forestall loss of life as well as human suffering where nosotros know it is probable to occur.
Christina Bennett for ODI. I am non sure what 'evidence' as well as mainstream media tin do correct at nowadays well-nigh Yemen, South Sudan or parts of Nigeria. There is neither political volition nor whatever movement towards long-term, preventative action. The fact that the assist manufacture resorts to talking well-nigh 'the worst crisis ever' is a sign of the helplessness of those who receive got been around, who receive got been on the Earth as well as who receive got been sending alert signs when 'the West' offset decided that they should plough a blind oculus on Saudi-Arabia's armed forces activity inward Yemen, for example.

Outsourced labour: international surrogacy as well as women’s rights
But the vocalism that nosotros possibly most demand to take away heed inward this fence is the vocalism of women who run every bit surrogates. As governments scramble for answers, both inward developed as well as developing countries, it is this vocalism that is missing from policy debates. Parents seeking surrogates to behave their children receive got mobilised as well as organised inward many countries – including inward Australia, where they advocated successfully for a parliamentary inquiry. Western feminists are debating as well as disagreeing on this issue. But it is non our bodies as well as livelihoods that are on the line.
Civil lodge as well as evolution actors may demand to consider how best they tin back upward the raising of surrogate voices, hence they are non marginalised inward debates that nitty-gritty on their ain protection as well as exploitation.
Ashlee Betteridge on the Devpolicy blog presents the emerging number some global surrogacy alongside a wide arrive at of interesting arguments, focusing on Commonwealth of Australia as well as Kingdom of Cambodia every bit instance studies.

Extreme poverty laid to ascent across Southern Africa
First, Southern African economical growth has non as well as is non expected to trickle downwards to the most vulnerable members of society. Southern Africa has the highest score of inequality (as measured past times the Gini coefficient) of whatever share inward the Earth as well as is expected to run into a slight growth inward inequality over time.
Second, Southern Africa has non as well as is non expected to register economical growth that is high plenty to both furnish for its chop-chop growing population as well as trace upward those already inward poverty. The share every bit a whole is expected to average 3.5% annual growth (see Figure three for regional variation) to 2040, which is lower than every other share on the continent salve for Central Africa. Meanwhile, population growth is expected to average 2% over the same fourth dimension period.
Alex Porter for the Institute of Strategic Studies alongside an of import reminder that the macro fence on 'the Earth is inward a amend province as well as fewer people alive inward poverty' is much to a greater extent than complicated; capitalist growth is non the 'solution'.

aid worker voices, looking at the Philippines as well as the relationships betwixt expat as well as local assist workers.

'Beg-packers': White tourists who beg inward southeast Asia
We regain it extremely foreign to enquire other people for coin to aid y'all travel. Selling things inward the street or begging isn’t considered respectable. People who do hence are actually inward need: they beg inward monastic enjoin to purchase food, pay their children’s schoolhouse fees or pay off debts. But non inward monastic enjoin to do something seen every bit a luxury!
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This turns our continent into a caricature, a mystical solid soil total of adventures or, inward other words, a playground for white people. People come upward hither on a journeying of self-discovery, eager for exotic experiences. Sometimes, I desire to enquire them: what makes y'all recall that this form of take away is normal inward Asia? Why don’t y'all do the same thing at home?
Sarra Grira for France24's The Observers. These are interesting observations from Asia, highlighting some of the problems of backpacking, voluntourism as well as journeys of self-discovery inward the global South.

The Best Project Monitoring as well as Evaluation Guides
Vipul Nanda for Socialcops alongside a non bad arrive at of resources that tin serve every bit a primer into M&E guides.

If Men Really Didn't Like All-Male Panels, There Wouldn't Be All-Male Panels
Unfortunately, throughout our run at GenderAvenger we’ve establish that zero industrial plant quite every bit good every bit a fiddling shame to motivate an organisation to receive got activity as well as live on accountable. An old GenderAvenger friend, Ron Fournier, has a policy that when he finds himself on an all-male panel for run he volition hence at nowadays telephone phone the organisation out publicly on social media. This draws attending to the problem, rallies people to support, as well as to a greater extent than oftentimes than non makes conference organizers recall a fiddling harder well-nigh their all-male panels for the adjacent event.
Soraya Membreno for Gender Avenger alongside a reminder on how to bargain alongside (and hopefully avoid) the notorious #allmalepanel...

Our digital lives
Fantastical Maps
Florida devotes merely xviii pages to the megacities of the developing world. Most of his suggestions, similar hence many of the glittering renderings as well as fantastical maps that populate contemporary discourse well-nigh cities, are both theoretically appealing as well as practically infeasible. The correct ideas at the incorrect time.
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It’s indicative of the tenor of this book, which is heavy on studies from sociologists as well as economists (at ane point, there’s a page where to a greater extent than than one-half the sentences innovate a novel ratio), but addresses history solely inward brusk anecdotes, as well as politics hardly at all. This blindness to the perversity of American politics (which Florida otherwise follows closely) weighs heavily on the book.
Henry Grabar review Richard Florida's latest majority for Slate. It is of import inward the feel that feel that reminds us that 'evidence' as well as 'innovative ideas' are non plenty to create sustainable as well as transformative social change-and that politics inward many ways provides stronger resistance to alter than inward the decades before.

Hot off the digital press
Launch of our Network Yearbook as well as 2016/17 Network Mapping Study (March 2017)
The most pregnant C4D approaches that are used  are take away alter as well as advocacy; followed past times media development, social alter communication as well as social mobilisation.
C4D contributes to many unlike programme areas or themes inward development, every bit determined past times country  context; telephone commutation areas are health, education, as well as agriculture.
Many varied C4D areas (strategies, channels and tools) are used; as well as piece social media as well as broadcasting are dominant channels, approaches and strategies are highly varied, but alongside a prioritising of participatory as well as edutainment methods.
The C4D Network presents findings from their recent global mapping exercise.

Academia

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Relying on Women, Not Rewarding Them
“We regain rigid prove that, on average, women faculty perform to a greater extent than service than manful someone faculty inward academia, as well as that the service differential is driven peculiarly past times participation inward internal rather than external service,” the report says. “When nosotros facial expression within departments -- controlling for whatever type of organizational or cultural ingredient that is subdivision specific -- nosotros even hence regain large, pregnant differences inward the service loads of women versus men.”
All that matters because service loads “likely receive got an affect on productivity inward other areas of faculty endeavour such every bit research as well as teaching, as well as these latter activities tin atomic number 82 straight to salary differentials as well as overall success inward academia,” the newspaper says. “In the urgency to redress non solely differences inward fourth dimension usage but compensation imbalances, every bit well, the service imbalance is ane that deserves to ascent to the forefront of the discussion.”
Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed alongside novel research on gendered roles inward academia. It's a complicated topic-maybe women receive got to a greater extent than 'impact' through their service run as well as men larn the praise for publishing yet to a greater extent than books as well as articles alongside less affect on students as well as society? But the electrical flow scheme of metrics as well as numbers clearly rewards publishing over basically anything else...

The Dangerous Academic is an Extinct Species
The corporatized university, similar corporations generally, is an uncontrollable behemoth, absorbing greater as well as greater quantities of uppercase as well as human lives, as well as churning out fiddling of long-term social value.
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The corporatized academy serves nobody as well as zero except its ain interplanetary space growth. Students are indebted, professors lose task security, surrounding communities are surveilled as well as displaced. That is something dangerous.
Left professors almost surely feel this. They run into themselves disappearing, the campus becoming a steadily to a greater extent than stifling environment. Posturing every bit a macho revolutionary is, similar all displays of machismo, driven partially past times a desperate fearfulness of one’s impotence. They know they are non dangerous, but they are happy to play into the conservative stereotype.
Yasmin Nair for Current Affair alongside lots of nutrient for thought. 

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