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Welcome to a fresh link review from stormy too rainy Sweden!

Development news: Commitment to evolution (Sweden is #1!); Rwanda's cash transfer programme everybody is talking about; Canada's OECD-DAC peer review; United Nations Women staff sacked over #AidToo; is the UNSG nether siege? Citizens United Against Inhumanity; is pessimism a privilege? Positive thinking & poverty; edutainment meets behavioral science; CARE's humanitarian imaginary; Africa is ever portrayed equally a passive woman; accepting charity amongst dignity; challenging white drones; the radical history of Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

Our digital lives: Excuses are like...white manly someone panel edition; Mo' cryptocurrencies, mo' opportunities for revenue enhancement havens!

Publications: Investigative journalism inwards Africa; ending extreme poverty; medical encephalon drain? Not hence fast!

Academia: Caribbean Area hurricane vulnerability & British colonial plantations.

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Development news
Commitment to Development Index 2018

The Commitment to Development Index ranks 27 of the world’s richest countries on policies that touching on to a greater extent than than 5 billion people living inwards poorer nations. Because evolution is almost to a greater extent than than unusual aid, the Index covers 7 distinct policy areas: Aid, Finance, Technology, Environment, Trade, Security & Migration.
Ian Mitchell, Anita Käppeli, Lee Robinson, Caitlin McKee & Arthur Baker for CDG amongst all the details almost the Commitment to Development Index.

The Countries That Give The Most In Aid Aren’t Necessarily Helping
Apr Zhu for Bright Magazine amongst to a greater extent than background on the index inwards an interview amongst Anita Käppeli.

A/B Testing Foreign Aid
On Thursday, USAID released the results of this innovative A/B test. As it turns out, neither the holistic intervention nor the smaller cash transfers moved the needle much on nutrition. The tailored programme did increment savings, spell the small-scale cash transfer allowed individuals to repay debt too accumulate assets. Larger cash transfers (about $530 per household), however, had substantial effects. Households increased their productive assets past times 76 percent, saved lx pct more, too were able to eat 32 pct to a greater extent than than inwards the past. They were able to purchase to a greater extent than varied nutrient for their families. Children inwards these households were taller, weighed more, too were less probable to choke early.
Michael Faye too Paul Niehaus for the Atlantic...looks similar everybody showed inwards involvement inwards the Rwanda cash transfer program.


What create Canada’s peers say almost Canadian evolution cooperation?
The study raises concerns regarding Canada’s relationships amongst civil society, noting the government’s reliance on project-based funding, too refusal to provide programme or amount funding equally was its exercise inwards the past, preferring to exercise these organizations equally service providers or contractors rather than treating them equally evolution actors inwards their ain right. Similarly, it recommended that Canada provide multilateral evolution organizations amongst to a greater extent than unearmarked, amount funding. Also highlighted was the government’s continued lack of a clear strategy for engaging amongst the private sector, including measures to ensure that Canadian companies abide by human rights abroad.
The McLeod Group also takes on Canada's DAC peer review report.

Senior United Nations gender too youth official sacked over sexual misconduct
Kanikkannan said questions remained unanswered regarding the Karkara case, including the number of why United Nations Women had declined to advert him, why a re-create of the study would non last shared amongst victims, too why the adviser had non been referred to law before inwards the process.
She said: “Firing a staff fellow member is non a penalization proportionate to the severity of the crime. It remains to last seen if the United Nations follows through on its obligation to cooperate amongst the authorities. Its system-wide policy of jumping the delineate ahead of law activity has undoubtedly already jeopardised the judge process.”
The investigation into Karkara was carried out past times the United Nations Development Programme’s Office of Audit too Investigation, which delivered a study to United Nations Women at the terminate of August.
Hannah Summers for the Guardian on some other #AidToo impact story.

Trump Administration Plans U.N. Meeting to Ramp Up the International Drug War
The Trump direction volition opened upward a calendar week of high-level meetings at the United Nations General Assembly inwards New York amongst a drug policy lawsuit featuring President Donald Trump. Invites to the lawsuit are existence doled out exclusively to those countries that have got signed on to a controversial, nonnegotiable activity plan, according to documents obtained past times The Intercept — amid them the countries amongst the world’s most draconian drug laws.
Samuel Oakford for the Intercept is getting all of us inwards the mood for UNGA calendar week ;)!

The United Nations Is Under Siege, So Where Is the Secretary-General?
Guterres is fully aware of the UN’s political flaws equally good equally structural too staffing shortcomings. We must promise that he finds the fortitude non to shy away from the Sisyphean chore of transforming — too that is the word — how the United Nations does business. Could he exercise the Trump administration’s tightening of fiscal screws — including its nearsighted, heartless stop of funding to the UN’s Population Fund (Unfpa) too the Relief too Works Agency for Palestine Refugees inwards the Near East (Unrwa) too the Green Climate Fund, which supports the Paris Agreement — to create what long has needed doing?
Thomas G. Weiss for PassBlue shares his reflections on the tenure of the electrical flow UNSG.

IHSA Conference 2018 | H5N1 failing United Nations too the prospects of the world citizenship past times Antonio Donini
And this brings us to United Against Inhumanity (UAI), an emerging global motion of citizens too civil lodge who are outraged past times the inability too unwillingness of the formal international scheme to address the causes too consequences of armed conflict. One of the goals of UAI is to move amongst citizen too civil lodge organisations too to pose the citizen at the middle of efforts to fight the inhumanity of warfare too the abomination of measures that deny those inwards demand of refuge the correct to seek asylum. It aims to increment the political too reputational harm to perpetrators too to back upward civil lodge mobilisation actions on the inhumanity of state of war too the erosion of asylum.
Antonio Donini for the International Humanitarian Studies Association shares his vision of a futurity amongst novel forms of civil lodge activism.

New Yorker’s Ariel Levy Reflects on Ophelia Dahl, too Optimism equally a “Moral Choice”
Ophelia told me that pessimism is the worst possible human face of privilege. Because hence you're basically writing off millions of people who exactly can't afford to call back that way: they can't seem at the statistics too conclude, "You know, it doesn't seem hence skilful for my family. I call back we'll exactly give up." I assay to hang on to that thought when I experience hopeless, that optimism is a moral choice. That the choice is a failure of non exactly empathy, but imagination.
Partners inwards Health utter to Ariel Levy almost her experiences inwards Sierra Leone. Pessimism equally privilege...interesting nutrient for discussion...

Why positive thinking won’t larn you lot out of poverty
As a consequence, this approach individualises the ‘problem’ of poverty whilst failing to acknowledge, contextualize, highlight or analyse the structures, institutions too actors that genuinely brand too maintain some people poor. For example, the thought that purpose models tin last effective inwards changing people’s behaviour, emotions too self-concepts isn’t new; what’s novel is the belief that these aspirations tin elevator people out of poverty without broader changes inwards politics, social structures too institutions. Returning to the brothels of Kolkata, advocating for the removal of psychological barriers may non last effective if the working weather condition of sexual activity workers too the structures on which their textile deprivation stands move along to move unchallenged.
Farwa Sial & Carolina Alves for Open Democracy select on the original New York Times slice of how positive thinking may aid to terminate poverty.

Bringing Behavioral Science to “Edutainment”
Behavioral scientists tin maintain demonstrating value to edutainment too social too behavioral alter communication, inwards business office through futurity deployments of this method too increasing the base of operations of evidence. They tin create hence through much to a greater extent than enquiry almost the psychological mechanisms of edutainment, which nosotros have got petty agreement of yet. In everything from peace edifice to fertilizer use, edutainment has been used, too behavioral scientific discipline should last used too.
What is sure is that nosotros must maintain working together. Edutainment is the best-funded, best-evidenced approach to behaviour alter communication at scale. It is vital, too it is non equally skilful equally it could be. Behavioral scientific discipline has much to offering inwards maximizing its impact.
Tom Wein for the Behavioral Scientist. Tom is a graduate of our ComDev MA program too asks of import questions inwards his essay on how the impact of 'edutainment' tin move to a greater extent than scientific.

Gender inwards Humanitarian Imagery: The Case of CARE International
The analysis of CARE International’s visual communication on Twitter demonstrates that CARE’s imagery has shifted to portray a greater representation of empowered women. Yet, images of women vastly outnumber those of men, too women are portrayed equally victims to a greater extent than oftentimes than men. As such, CARE’s communication tin last characterized past times a lack of gender equally good equally contextual variability. Thus, CARE’s communication reflects a greater entrenchment in, too perpetuation of, a victim prototype that inadequately represents the needs too capabilities of both genders.
In moral too ethical terms, the emotions of pity too empathy should last unconstrained past times gender. Though women create endure disproportionately equally a resultant of humanitarian crises, their over-utilization equally a way of eliciting pity too empathy points to an unequal sublimation of who may last deserving of an assistive response. This delineates who tin too cannot last a victim, elevating gender roles too dichotomies too marginalizing the agency of both.
The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy amongst a well-referenced instance study on visual representations of beneficiaries inwards the context of CARE's communication.

Why is Africa ever portrayed equally a passive woman?
It’s equally good slow for fifty-fifty people who know meliorate to depict Africa inwards relation to its seat inwards Western too instantly Eastern commodity chains, to select that the challenge is inwards finding a suitor rather than emphasising the agency of African people. We pick upward the discourse uncritically too inwards hence doing reinforce it. Africa represents “a novel economical frontier” too not, for example, a home. “What’s Trump’s seat on Africa?” nosotros scramble to reply equally if Africa cannot be without Trump expressing an catch on it. Yes, it’s inwards the nature of international economical too political discourse to unsee people, but shouldn’t nosotros resist this dehumanising language?
There’s surely truth inwards that African political leaders are hence eager to driblet everything too traipse around the world, begging bowls inwards hand, at the beck too telephone telephone of leaders from other parts of the world. In 2014, rather than see diverse African countries, for example, Obama exactly summoned them all for a coming together inwards Washington DC. And they came. Tony Blair did the same thing inwards 2004. Our presidents scurry off to Brussels too Paris, too mainland People's Republic of China every 3 years.
Nanjala Nyabola for African Arguments taking on the visual linguistic communication too rhetoric of 'Africa' displayed at international gatherings too inwards politics for generally.

'Accepting charity is an ugly business': my homecoming to the refugee camps, thirty years on
“Because people desire every hr too dollar they give to last stretched thin.” Hutchings told me that his biggest work was the volunteers, donors, too their lofty expectations. Many donors desire to assign criteria to how their nutrient is given out. They desire their money feeding equally many equally possible, to brand sure you lot pass it exclusively on eggs too bread. They desire to police. They don’t aid almost the “how”. Even the most good-hearted volunteers desire to experience thanked. Refugee Support began its move inwards Apr 2016 at Alexandreia campsite close Thessaloniki, Greece. They laid out to opened upward a nutrient store, hence a have on store, a well-designed, peaceful marketplace stocked amongst donations, where a someone of annotation wouldn’t last ashamed to shop. When Hutchings showed me photographs, I thought: my mother, an Iranian doctor, would store there. My grandfather, a landowner, would last proud to run into a neighbor there. It was a far yell from the item-specific trucks.
At first, residents made appointments too collected prepared baskets of food, thoughtfully arranged amongst necessities for each family. Everyone received the same thing, regardless of allergies, habits or taste. But people didn’t have got the same needs, too shortly at that spot were grumblings, barter, waste.
Hutchings too Sloan decided to display the goods too give people the abide by of choosing for themselves. The store’s currency would last points distributed weekly similar income – 100 points per adult, 50 per child, 150 for important women. Store prices would last pegged to marketplace prices (20 points per euro). Sanitary items would last free. If residents wanted to pass all their points on chocolate spread, they had that right.
Dina Nayeri for the Guardian on charity, dignity & treating refugees right. 

White drones — white pigeons
The Republic of Guyana instance offers clues to aid the displace towards structural change, equally it highlights issues UNICEF Innovation ignores: the relevance of attitudes too values that frame projects/programs, the demand to collaborate amongst people equally equals too the purpose hardware plays inwards this, the demand to seat too tackle mightiness imbalances inwards every intervention, the demand for cognition equity, capabilities, too autonomy for adequate impact too sustainability, the demand to empathise alter is a long term thing, non the resultant of a applied scientific discipline transfer scheme (the tribes too Digital Democracy have got been partnering for to a greater extent than than 10 years).
Paz Bernaldo amongst a long too detailed critique of UNICEF Innovation's approach to conception & challenging neo-/post-colonial narratives around drones inwards Guyana.

Meet Haiti's Founding Father, Whose Black Revolution Was Too Radical for Thomas Jefferson
Dessalines’ vision of an autonomous dark dry soil – a nation founded past times enslaved people who killed their colonial masters – alarmed the patrician Virginia plantation owner, Jefferson’s letters show. The U.S. was also existence pressured past times southern slave states too French too British diplomats to shun Haiti.
Rather than reckoning amongst the ills of racial oppression too colonialism, most prominent thinkers across the Americas too Europe interpreted Dessalines’ state of war equally an instance of African barbarity.
Julia Gaffield for the Conversation on the re-emergence of a dark Caribbean Area figure that deserves to a greater extent than infinite inwards history-making & anti-slavery lectures.

Our digital lives
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Chris Hardie for McSweeney's.

The Tiny Nations Plotting to Become Tax Havens for Cryptocurrencies
Binance, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, has moved from China, where it was founded inwards 2017, to Malta, where it is creating a blockchain-based banking enterprise called the Founders Bank. Yanislav Malahov, 1 of the creators of Ethereum — the second-most pop cryptocurrency after bitcoin — has chosen Principality of Liechtenstein equally his base of operations to construct a novel blockchain called Aeternity. And companies similar remittance theatre eXlama decided to laid upward store inwards Gibraltar, because it was “one of the first” territories to “answer to the demand” for a legal framework for blockchain, cryptocurrencies
Eric Czuleger for Ozy on the side past times side frontier inwards 'financial services' & revenue enhancement havenism...

Publications



Academia
The Plantation’s purpose inwards enhancing hurricane vulnerability inwards the nineteenth-century British Caribbean
Despite all of its attendant vulnerabilities, the plantation remained the middle of British Caribbean Area lodge into the belatedly nineteenth century. The fact that the British vision for the part developed hence petty meant that the plantation continually exposed the region’s inhabitants to increased risk. H5N1 hurricane inwards 1898 that hitting Barbados too St. Vincent caused landslips that rendered many homeless too necessitated the rapid importation of provisions too timber. This system, equally unsustainable too ill-suited to the region’s environs equally it was, remained because it primarily benefitted a select grouping of people who were far removed from its consequences. Such a decision should drive us to reverberate on acquaint hateful solar daytime developments inwards the Caribbean.
Oscar Webber for Alternautas amongst a neat historical essay too a reminder that 'natural disasters' are rarely exactly 'natural' too oftentimes come upward amongst a baggage of history, exploitation, vulnerabilities too marginalization equally seen inwards from a British colonial perspective inwards the Caribbean.

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