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Hi all,

We are moving closer to a short, but well-deserved interruption (next week's review volition live the terminal for 2018), but inwards the meantime, there's some interesting, eyebrow-raising, thought-provoking together with inspiring reading around #globaldev!

Enjoy!

Development news
Sweden freezes back upwards to UNAIDS until leader removed
Sweden said Midweek it was freezing its back upwards to UNAIDS until its executive managing director is removed, after an practiced written report blasted the agency's leadership for systematically failing to address bullying, abuse together with sexual harassment.
The Swedish regime has no confidence inwards Michel Sidibe to Pb the organisation, a spokesman for the ministry building for international evolution cooperation told AFP, confirming reports inwards local media.
"We create got no confidence inwards him. He has to resign now," International Development Cooperation Minister Isabella Lovin told daily Svenska Dagbladet, adding "I've fifty-fifty told him together with then personally".
That's the AFP on Wednesday.

UNAIDS caput to quit post service early on next scathing report
A arguing from the United Nations agency on Th made no reference to terminal week's report, simply proverb that Sidibe wants to "have an orderly transition of leadership at UNAIDS" together with would resign the destination of June.
Critics pounced. Paula Donovan, co-director of AIDS-Free World together with its Code Blue Campaign, which industrial plant to destination impunity for sexual abuse past times United Nations personnel, said Sidibe "doesn't deserve to leave of absence on his damage together with on his timeline."
"A leader of whatsoever other major establishment who was defendant of the wrongdoing described inwards ... the written report would create got been summarily fired," she said, criticizing a "failure of leadership" past times United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres -- who tin burn Sidibe -- together with the UNAIDS board.
"This is the culmination of the abuse of might together with authorization that has marked Sidibe's tenure," Donovan said. "The civilization of impunity remains intact. Zero tolerance is ... naught to a greater extent than than empty slogan."
Jamey Keaten for Associated Press on Thursday. 2018, the twelvemonth of #AidToo, is coming to unopen together with the United Nations scheme sticks to diplomatic together with bureaucratic routines rather than using the chance to bargain with toxic direction differently.

The Crisis of Peacekeeping
In many cases, calling on the blueish helmets has top only a convenient substitute for a serious grappling with what it would select to convey peace. The same story hence repeats itself, whether inwards Bosnia, Congo, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Somalia, or South Sudan. After the outbreak of war, donor countries pledge millions of dollars inwards assist together with inquire the United Nations for help. Eventually, the warring parties telephone call upwards for cease-fires, sign agreements, together with handle elections. But soon, sometimes precisely days later, violence flares upwards again. Often, it has never truly ended; inwards many cases, it lasts for years.
The international community’s preferred strategy for dealing with conflict simply isn’t working: peacekeeping as currently practiced is a Band-Aid on a gaping wound. The goodness tidings is that in that location is a way to rethink the electrical flow strategy together with then that it has a ameliorate shot at establishing lasting peace: rely to a greater extent than on the really people it is ostensibly trying to protect.
Séverine Autesserre for Foreign Affairs with a long-read on the past, introduce together with uncertain hereafter of United Nations peacekeeping.

OPINION: We demand to beak most racism inwards the assist sector
No 1 is blatantly racist to your face. It isn’t overt. But the careless handling of professional person dark assist workers past times humanitarian assist organisations suggests a hierarchy of worth, with workers from the Global South, peculiarly if they are black, valued the least.
We came to this travel naively thinking everyone would live treated as regardless of race, gender or religious affiliation. It didn’t select us long to uncovering that equality is a charade inwards this sector.
The realities:
Hazardous weather condition — dark workers to a greater extent than probable to live lay inwards harm’s way.
Housing weather condition — ameliorate for whites than for dark colleagues.
Promotions — white workers promoted over to a greater extent than competent dark colleagues with years to a greater extent than experience.
Complaints most these together with other injustices — ignored together with dismissed.
(...)
There is soundless a touching of well-meaning, missionary zeal inwards the mental attitude of the northern assist workers towards the developing world. We demand to come across the talent alongside local workers, non imagine dependency. The ultimate aim must live to mitt over command to local agencies. This would involve setting inwards house leave of absence strategies for ex-pats together with implementing transparent career ladders for local workers.
Tindyebwa Agaba & Anonymous for openDemocracy with lots of nutrient for thought on racial biases, localization together with a post-#AidToo #globaldev sector.

DFID doesn’t fully select all findings from assist abuse report
DFID has today published its answer to the findings of the IDC’s written report and, inwards doing so, has sought to shift much of the responsibleness onto the the wider international evolution sector.
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Amongst the recommendations the regime took slight umbrage with was conducting an audit of the accessibility to whistleblowing systems together with protections for the people who role them.
Hugh Radojev for CivilSociety on how #AidToo is becoming de-/re-/politicized as to a greater extent than structural challenges emerge.

T.M. Landry together with the Tragedy of Viral Success Stories
That illness stems, inwards part, from political choices that create got rotted the social security internet together with made access to a goodness didactics the birthright of solely a tiny elite. But the illness is also, to a greater extent than perniciously, the legacy of the demand that dark children live raised as John Henrys, no thing if it kills them inwards the process.
We demand to halt substituting hopeful stories for justice. We must ensure that all children create got a truthful chance to realize their potential. We ought to subscribe to a novel vision of success, where the goal is non precisely great kids, but gratis together with whole ones too.
Casey Gerald for the New York Times with your weekly reminder that philanthrocapitalists, private success stories together with inspiration volition non Pb to systemic social alter inwards the US!

'They don't care': Facebook factchecking inwards disarray as journalists force to cutting ties
Current together with old Facebook factcheckers told the Guardian that the tech platform’s collaboration with exterior reporters has produced minimal results together with that they’ve lost trust inwards Facebook, which has repeatedly refused to release meaningful information most the impacts of their work. Some said Facebook’s hiring of a PR theater that used an antisemitic narrative to discredit critics – fueling the same sort of propaganda factcheckers regularly debunk – should live a deal-breaker.
“They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR,” said Brooke Binkowski, old managing editor of Snopes, a factchecking site that has partnered with Facebook for 2 years. “They’re non taking anything seriously. They are to a greater extent than interested inwards making themselves await goodness together with passing the buck … They clearly don’t care.”
Sam Levin for the Guardian. People who thought that Facebook would attention most journalistic ethics are in all likelihood also the people who maintain to telephone call upwards an advertising platform a 'social network'...

I was a contract worker inwards Google’s caste system—and it wasn’t pretty
So, ideally, Google would select the high road. If it wants to “do the correct thing,” as its motto goes, it tin hire most workers full-time. But that’s admittedly costly inwards damage of administration, benefits, compensation, together with potential liability. And what it’s doing isn’t unique—many Silicon Valley corporations rely on contractors for a mass of their marrow work. Microsoft did this too, until it settled a massive course of study activity lawsuit inwards 2000 with “permatemps” for $97 million.
Someday, maybe Google volition also destination upwards paying out to those who travel for less precisely to live at “the best” workplace inwards the world. For now, however, it seems that until labor laws alter to reverberate the electrical flow work reality together with incentivize full-time hiring, inequality volition persist—even as the companionship appears sugariness on the outside.
Ephrat Livni for Quartz...why should Google live ameliorate than the balance of the corporate world...

Taylor Swift’s Security Used Facial Recognition Technology to Monitor Concert Crowds for Stalkers. Is That Allowed?
Advocacy groups are concerned most the fiddling that nosotros do know most the role of the applied scientific discipline at the Swift concert. “Companies create got a responsibleness to honour human rights, together with they demand to brand sure enough whatsoever monitoring that they do is truly express to what is strictly necessary to range a legitimate aim,” says Sarah St. Vincent, a researcher together with advocate for Human Rights Watch. “If this companionship is learning that this somebody is attention a Taylor Swift concert together with maybe stood side past times side to sure enough other people or went to the bar to acquire a gulp or engaged inwards other things, that’s information that’s valuable for them to sell.” This makes it all the to a greater extent than important, argues St. Vincent, for companies to notify people when facial recognition is inwards role together with give them the adventure to opt out.
Aaron Mak for Slate. More crowd control-coming to a opposition rally, refugee army camp or #globaldev summit close you lot soon!

Publications
Human AI for Human Development
A human AI also requires developing incentives together with way for civil social club organizations, researchers, regulators, together with others, to demand that world policies together with programs live evaluated systematically using the best available information together with methodologies, to accommodate hereafter iterations together with contribute to a trunk of bear witness on what yields which results.
Data for transparency together with rational pity are a recipe for dealing with imitation tidings together with demagoguery.
Emmanuel Letouzé together with Alex Pentland for ITU.
It's an interesting paper, but maybe the ITU (another large international organization) could pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension on summarizing papers correct on their website rather than featuring extensive bios of the authors...

The State of the Humanitarian System 2018
An independent study compiling the latest statistics together with analysis on the size,
shape together with ambit of the humanitarian scheme together with assessing
overall performance together with progress.
ALNAP with its annual overview over humanitarian issues-a great format for a non-flagship report!

Communication for Development Case Study Compendium
This compendium of xv SBCC cases presents results together with learning from the Communication for Development (C4D) cross-sectoral interventions from xv states of Republic of Republic of India – all implemented during the solid reason programme 2013- 2017. Additionally, a national grade C4D Results Report ‘Resonating Change’ has also been compiled.
UNICEF India with a 206 page pdf document (sigh...); interesting content, presented inwards a typical United Nations publication way where less could create got been more...

Academia
It’s fourth dimension to rethink letters of recommendation
So, what tin live done? We could starting fourth dimension past times requesting fewer letters. In most situations it is to a greater extent than effective to simply inquire for names of referees together with their contact information. This would confine the alphabetic character writing to solely those who are beingness seriously considered, saving countless hours of travel for everyone. Or why non simply halt asking for letters altogether?
Rima Wilkes together with Howard Ramos for University Affairs. Like many other academic traditions, reference letters are a 20th century practise that is yet to live 'disrupted' xix years into the 21st century...

Ghent University is changing course of study with a novel career model for professorial staff
H5N1 predominantly quantitative together with output-driven academic evaluation procedure makes way for talent evolution together with growth, prioritizing vision evolution together with strategy – at the personal as good as the grouping level. Quality prevails over quantity. Needless to say, nosotros are confident that the intrinsic motivation of each ZAP fellow member ensures that no 1 needs a priori objectives inwards monastic enjoin to perform good inwards the marrow tasks of our university: education, query together with institutional or social engagement.
Belgian Ghent University is introducing a novel model to evaluate career together with 'success' at the university.

A Poem About Your University’s New together with Totally Not Time-Wasting Review Process for Tenure together with Promotion
In conclusion, nosotros would similar to remind you
That these changes won’t affect
Too many faculty members as
No 1 is truly on
The tenure rail anymore.
Indeed, the tenure rail is
Sort of similar a creepy together with abandoned
High-school running track
In a poorly-produced horror film.
But the happy few who are on this track
Can balance assured that
We volition live checking upwards on you.
Every breath you lot take
Every displace you lot make
Every bond you lot break
Every pace you lot take
We’ll live watching you.
Susan Harlan with some McSweeney's poetry...

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