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Hi all,

The calendar week started relatively calm, but after a last-minute invitation to a corking conference on evolution volunteering inwards Cologne, a novel majority review as well as enough of interesting readings for the latest review I'm ready for my weekend!

Development news: UNEP's move expense problems; WHO abolishes unpaid internships; within the localization debate; a lot of assist is all the same tied to Northern expenses; Healing Solidarity; companies & SDGs-mainly empty promises; H&M's problem amongst 'good'; factories; African designers & sustainability challenges; gender activity & the Indian village; a immature MP rises inwards South Africa; Nepal's cool Kautam reminices on a career at UNICEF & #globaldev; getting the story of migration & assist workers on stage.

Our digital lives: H5N1 Mandela exhibition amongst a sour corporate aftertaste; mental wellness well-being inwards the gig economy.

Publications: The unprotected, unsupported & uncertain status of refugees inwards Greece; journalists fact-checking Africa.

Academia: New majority on civil rights, dark power, as well as the Ivy League; a alphabetic lineament to a prospective anthropology graduate student.

Enjoy!

New from aidnography
Algiers, Third World Capital (book review)
Algiers, Third World Capital, brings out the best inwards what I appreciate hence much most alternative writings most the history of development: Through the eyes of a fascinating personality the reader is immersed inwards a historical puzzle that vividly as well as also entertainingly, outlines the complexities of transformation, of alternatives ideas, unlike ideals as well as insights into societies, countries as well as larger parts of the globe inwards limbo. When it comes to pop forms of writing on global developments as well as using autobiographies every bit resources for teaching, enquiry as well as communicating #globaldev, create sure enough you lot alternative upwardly your re-create of Elaine Mokhtefi’s book!
Development news

Nations stop funding to United Nations environs programme every bit outcry over primary grows
Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said it was withholding its 2018 contribution of most $1.6m to Unep. “The ministry building is familiar amongst the criticism of Solheim’s move activities,” an MFA spokeswoman told the Guardian. “We select this seriously. We are right away awaiting the concluding audit study as well as its possible recommendations earlier nosotros pay additional funds.”
Sweden’s International Development Agency (Sida) said they would non approve whatsoever novel funding until all the issues raised had been resolved. “Sida takes all signals of misuse of funds real seriously,” a spokeswoman said.
Damian Carrington for the Guardian amongst a follow-up on the UNEP director's move expense problems.

UN agency's U-turn after unpaid internships row
But after a crusade led past times a one-time intern, the United Nations agency has agreed to render total fiscal back upwardly for its immature workers past times no afterwards than 2020.
It told the BBC that targets are also inwards identify to ensure that 50% of interns come upwardly from developing countries past times 2022."It's unacceptable that 80% of WHO's go goes into supporting people inwards developing countries, yet exclusively 20% of their interns come upwardly from them," says Ashton Barnett-Vanes, 29, a British medico of English linguistic communication as well as Jamaican heritage from Wolverhampton, who started the crusade after his internship inwards 2012.
Rianna Croxford for BBC News on how WHO is planning to lay an terminate to unpaid internships!

From the Blue Planet up: Inside the force to reshape local aid
Critics of the “localisation” agenda inquiry whether local assist organisations tin give notice e'er adhere to the humanitarian principles of independence as well as neutrality, peculiarly inwards conflict zones. Many donors have got also been reluctant to straight fund local NGOs, instead opting to go through intermediaries similar the major international assist groups. When funding does accomplish the ground, it is oftentimes earmarked for short-term projects.
Local assist organisations tell they’re inwards a constant struggle to survive. They’re quest for stable, longer-term funding that volition allow them to grow as well as sustain local expertise.
Money is important, but it’s non the exclusively factor. Local leaders tell they wishing a greater usage inwards making decisions. They’re also quest for assist to build skills as well as expertise on the ground, hence that grassroots groups volition live ameliorate equipped to Pb inwards time to come emergencies.
IRIN amongst a corking overview over the 'localization' of assist debate!

More than half of assist spent on procurement all the same goes to rich countries' firms - almost ii decades after commitment to terminate 'tied aid'
Simple strategies for opening upwardly procurement to firms inwards the global southward have got been good documented for many years. Yet evidence from xviii donor agencies who responded to our survey shows that such strategies are oftentimes ignored. Donors produce non consistently advertise contracts inwards the local media, they all the same laid real large contract sizes, as well as the procurement processes are oftentimes exclusively conducted inwards the languages of donor countries, but non the local languages of countries inwards the global south.
Meeks said: “If donors are actually committed to maximising the catalytic behave on of assist for evolution inwards the global southward – non precisely for their ain companies – they should urgently select activeness to untie their assist as well as improve their procurement processes.”
Eurodad amongst a novel briefing on 'tied aid'-a concept that I haven't seen inwards a long time, but glad to read an updated reminder about!

Lessons as well as Reflections on Healing Solidarity
The message from these speakers was real pure as well as clear: nosotros must select to a greater extent than joy as well as dearest into the assist as well as evolution sector if nosotros are to challenge as well as transform it. There were some wonderful grounding techniques led past times Agnes Otzelberger as well as Mary Ann Clements amidst others (sorry I couldn’t acquire to them all!) that helped lay this regulation into practice, as well as which nosotros tin give notice usage inwards our day-to-day lives to assist us connect amongst ourselves as well as others. All inwards all, at that spot was hence much to select away from this conference; to go amongst inwards ourselves, as well as inwards our communities as well as organisations. As Mary Ann Clements pointed out inwards her closing remarks at the terminate of the conference, infinite has opened upwardly for us to challenge situations of patriarchy as well as racism inwards our sector. In this regard, I believe healing solidarity agency 3 things: recognising our ain positioning within these situations, recognising where other people are at amongst regard to agreement the problems, as well as beingness willing to run into them as well as ourselves on this trajectory amongst pity as well as the belief that nosotros all have got a usage to play inwards creating to a greater extent than positive models of evolution as well as power.
Gemma Houldey shares some of her reflections around in conclusion week's Healing Solidarity online event.

Are Big Companies Walking Their Talk on the SDGs? New study digs into the evidence
The SDGs prompted hope that their ambition as well as collective vision would mobilize occupation organization to a novel grade as well as render farther momentum to efforts to to a greater extent than fundamentally align occupation organization models as well as strategies amongst sustainable development. The evidence to appointment doesn’t seem to validate this hope. Instead, our findings appear to confirm a broader trajectory of the corporate sustainability agenda, which over the years has go increasingly company-driven (vs. stakeholder-driven) as well as focused on a narrow ‘business case’ every bit primary motivator for companies to engage inwards sustainability issues. This approach is probable to disappoint our collective expectations of business’ contribution to achieving the SDGs.
Namit Agrawal, Uwe Gneiting as well as Ruth Mhlanga for fp2p innovate a novel Oxfam study on occupation organization as well as the SDGs.

Employment violations uncovered at Gold rated H&M suppliers
Damning novel enquiry claims to have got uncovered serious work violations as well as ‘poverty wages’ at H&M gilt suppliers. Researchers interviewed garment mill workers from Bulgaria, India, Kingdom of Cambodia as well as Turkey. Interviewed workers inwards Republic of Republic of India as well as Turkey earn most a 3rd as well as inwards Kingdom of Cambodia less than half of the estimated living wage, claim the researchers, spell Republic of Bulgaria interviewed workers’ salary at H&M’s gilt supplier is claimed to live “not fifty-fifty 10 per cent of what would live required for workers as well as their families to have got decent lives.”
The findings, published past times Clean Clothes Campaign, go far at a fourth dimension when H&M has precisely published a press authorities annotation suggesting it has reached almost 1 1000000 workers amongst its ‘fair living wage’ strategy.
Victoria Gallagher for Apparal Insider amongst a storry that sounds real familiar when CSR meets the realities of unsustainable value chains...

African fashion brands select sustainability to the runway, but tin give notice they scale upwardly as well as remain green?
Erwiah is trying to residuum scale amongst ameliorate reward (although she would non give farther details) as well as working conditions. With a mill inwards Accra, Studio 189 is already unlike from many other manufacturers. For starters, the label came out of Fashion Rising, a projection on the dorsum of the One Billion Rising global crusade against gender-based violence.
The mill was partly funded through a partnership from the International Trade Center, the Swiss as well as Ghanaian governments, which sponsor a computer program to grow the local fashion industry. Its focus on sustainability earned the occupation solid this year’s Council of Fashion Designers of America as well as Lexus Fashion Initiative award.
Lynsey Chutel for Quartz Africa looks at some of the African designers as well as fashion companies at the Londo Fashion Week.

Sex as well as the village: The sexual lives of rural Indian women
In a study conducted past times Nirantar every bit component of the sexuality workshop, adolescent girls shared a colourful make of fantasies. One said she wanted to apparel exclusively her underclothes as well as burn downwards bullets from a gun. Some girls only wanted to cutting their pilus as well as walk around belongings hands amongst virile soul friends.
Then at that spot is S. Her arms wound from milking the cows everyday. Sometimes fifty-fifty the walk from the champaign to her domicile seems too long as well as lonely. Her clan doesn’t allow widows to remarry. But for her, to wishing as well as to live desired are things she doesn’t demand societal approving for. She says if she keeps worrying ki log kya kahenge (what volition people say), who volition worry most her? Two decades after the initiative off fourth dimension she had sex, it’s non the human being lone who calls the shots inwards the bedroom. Sex is never over till S too has had an orgasm.
Ashwaq Masoodi for Live Mint amongst an article from rural Republic of Republic of India that explores of import links betwixt women's empowerment, gender activity & pleasure.

Why I turn down to rethink evolution – over again (and again, as well as again…)
The rootage of my discontent is that spell everyone continuously debated “development” as well as attempted to “rethink” it, non in 1 lawsuit it was clarified what the (minimum) mutual denominator of the “development” to live rethought would be. Were nosotros talking most intervention, projects, stakeholders, cooperation? Were nosotros rethinking technical modes of intervention? Ways of studying or researching? Or were nosotros questioning the roots of persistent inequalities, the sources of poverty as well as the causes of injustices (e.g. the legacy of colonialism, global capitalism as well as our regal fashion of living)?
Julia Schöneberg for Developing Economics amongst a reminder most challenging the term 'development' as well as turning the concept on its feet.

The Young Leader Challenging South Africa's Racial Boundaries
Now 29 as well as a fully fledged MP, Ngwenya is charged amongst putting together an irresistible suggestion for voters ahead of the 2019 presidential elections every bit the DA’s initiative off caput of policy. Quite a responsibility, considering 2019 represents the initiative off fourth dimension inwards democratic South Africa that whatsoever political party likewise the African National Congress (ANC) has fifty-fifty an exterior run a hazard of winning.
As early on every bit her teenage years, Ngwenya “just knew” she was a liberal who believed inwards the importance of private rights. The best groups, she says, are ones where members are costless to join, costless to leave of absence as well as costless to determine what the grouping stands for. Some groups — those demarcated along racial or gender lines, for illustration — are “the exact opposite” every bit they are mostly “ruled past times a hegemonic elite.” It’s e'er riled her when “someone stands upwardly as well as says, ‘Black people experience this …’ or ‘Women wishing that …’ ”
Nick Dall for Ozy amongst a corking portrait of South African MP Gwen Ngwenya.

Rejection By The King Of Nepal Was Not The End Of The Road
The discrimination Gautam faced every bit a swain exclusively made him grapple harder. The 2d fourth dimension he applied for a passport, a mid-level authorities official who had also risen from a rural hamlet sympathized amongst his plight as well as approved his application.
Gautam was going to America.
"From that bespeak on, I felt — ah! I have got managed to produce something impossible," he says early on inwards the interview. His loving cup of tea, forgotten, cools earlier him every bit he recalls the hurting as well as and hence joy of his challenges. "Even when the virile soul monarch rejects you, that's non the terminate of the road."
For Gautam, the route would extend all the way to a top leadership seat amongst the United Nations.
In 1971, he graduated from Dartmouth, where he studied international relations, after precisely 3 years. Next, he received his master's grade inwards economical evolution as well as modernization from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School inwards 1973.
After that, he ascended the ranks of the United Nations, get-go every bit a computer program officeholder for UNICEF as well as climbing to the seat of assistant secretarial assistant full general of the U.N. from 2000 to 2008.
Melody Schreiber for NPR Goats & Soda talks to Kul Gautam-another UN(ICEF) memoir I have got on my desk as well as facial expression forrard to read!

How tin give notice refugee stories live told inwards the theatre? Dr Glenda Cooper on using drama to explore humanitarian issues
Certainly many of the electrical flow theatrical productions are heavily based on existent life experience, if fictionalised inwards part. Part of The Jungle’s mightiness is the fact that you lot know this comes from Murphy as well as Robertson’s ain experience running the Good Chance house dome inwards the army camp itself. My ain play Aid Memoir which opens at the Pleasance Theatre, Islington inwards October, as well as is performed at City University inwards Nov earlier going on tour, uses my ain experience every bit a journalist as well as working for a major assist agency.
While The Jungle sites itself inwards the specific months leading upwardly to the demolition of the army camp as well as uses cinema of Alan Kurdi to locate it inwards existent life, I chose to create a fictional refugee army camp – laid inwards England, run past times African assist workers who allow the winner of Kenya’s Got Talent to run a celebrity appeal to relieve the UK refugees. By switching circular the sufferers as well as the saviours, Aid Memoir straight tries to challenge the audience’s preconceptions around aid.
The challenge for whatsoever author is to engage audiences amongst these issues, which let’s confront it produce non create for a relaxing evening. Part of this is telling engaging human stories – showing refugees as well as assist workers every bit existent people – non precisely saints or archetypes.
Glenda Cooper for the Humanitarian News Research Network on theatre, refugees as well as her ain novel play that volition select #globaldev to am phase nigh you lot inwards the UK!

Our digital lives
The British Council’s Mandela exhibition: history or corporate whitewash?
The “Mandela as well as Me” exhibition at the British Council inwards London marks the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s nativity inwards 1918. The exhibition is sponsored past times Anglo American, the mining giant that was the biggest corporation inwards South Africa during apartheid as well as has, since 1999, been headquartered inwards London.
This corporate connector influences the narrative that is spun at the exhibition. For example, it completely ignores Anglo’s ain usage every bit a founder as well as principal beneficiary of both British colonial dominion as well as afterwards the apartheid regime.
A cinema shown every bit component of the exhibition features immature South Africans relaying what Mandela agency for them. They appear inspired. Yet, I couldn’t assist feeling that this was an exercise inwards the structure of populace retentiveness that has connotations of manipulation.
Adam Higginbottom for The Conversation on corporate mining sponsorship as well as the legacy of South Africa's apartheid.

Well-Being as well as Mental Health inwards the Gig Economy
This enquiry suggests the demand to consider the time to come of go non exclusively from an economical or work constabulary perspective but from a mental wellness 1 too. What are the psychological implications of precarious go as well as how are factors such every bit fiscal instability, the feedback economic scheme as well as personal relationships reflected inwards mental wellness outcomes or connected to the occupation organization relationships most musicians as well as other gig economic scheme participants go under?
Sally-Anne Gross, George Musgrave & Laima Janciute amongst novel policy brief for University of Westminster University Press.

Publications
Unprotected, unsupported, uncertain
Over the past times half dozen months, the IRC has been gathering the testimony of clients who attend our mental wellness midpoint inwards Mytilene, the uppercase of Lesvos. This brief outlines our findings as well as puts forrard recommendations for the Greek local as well as cardinal government, European Union leaders as well as donors, to ensure that all asylum seekers at Moria inwards demand of mental wellness services are able to access it as well as that living atmospheric condition produce non trigger or exacerbate existing trauma.
The International Rescue Committee amongst a novel study from Greece's migration frontlines.

“Fact-Checking Africa”
a serial of independent data-driven organisations are emerging to fact-check legacy word media every bit good every bit other word sources. This study examines how these actors advocate as well as adopt journalistic exercise as well as the perceived behave on they have got on word journalism. We depict our information from in-depth interviews amongst fourteen practitioners working inwards 3 organisations—Code for Africa, Open Up as well as Africa Check—that are currently leading major information as well as fact-checking operations inwards sub-Saharan Africa. Our findings present that spell these non-journalistic actors are at the periphery of word media every bit institutions, their operations, activities as well as goals are at the see of journalistic discourse.
David Cheruiyot & Raul Ferrer-Conill amongst a novel opened upwardly access article for Digital Journalism.

Academia
‘Upending the Ivory Tower’
Finally, they learned that at that spot was aught peculiarly sacred most tradition inwards the Ivy League -- especially the traditions surrounding exclusive whiteness. By decolonizing the curricula to include dark studies units, as well as inwards creating their ain affinity groups as well as spaces, they learned how blackness could elevate fifty-fifty the most elite white institutions. Laudably, most of the people featured inwards the majority continued to think most themselves every bit component of a larger displace for dark liberty as well as used their Ivy influence (through dark alumni networks or their careers) to engineer opportunities for others.
Scott Jaschik talks to Stefan Bradley for Inside HigherEd on his novel majority on Civil Rights, Black Power, as well as the Ivy League.

Anthropology Needs You Much More than You Need Anthropology
Your projection is at the intersection of anthropology as well as ethnic studies, as well as draws on history, critical race theory, as well as literature. I dearest that! This is going to pose major problems for you. Anthropological empiricism tin give notice homecoming critical race theory as well as literary studies fundamentally suspect. Furthermore, anthropology all the same hasn’t figured out what to create of ethnic studies. Studying Asia or Latin America is highly prestigious. Studying immigrants? Not hence much. This is the go of sociologists, or of people overly invested inwards identity politics. If you’re a soul of color studying a minority grouping inwards the United States, a goodness number of anthropologists volition write you lot off every bit “studying yourself.” (Feeling incredulous yet? You’re inwards goodness company.) Anthropology has, for centuries, freely studied the world’s nonwhite populations, but “home” is to a greater extent than complicated. To clarify, anthropology does admit our settler-colonial history, but Native Americans don’t figure into this Definition of home. I’m talking most white middle-class academics, who contain the mainstay of anthropology.
Shalini Shankar for Cultural Anthropology amongst a 'welcome letter' to prospective graduate students of anthropology.

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