Report: Global Risks 2014
World Economic Forum
January 2014
http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2014/

Excerpt from Executive Summary
The Global Risks 2014 report highlights how global risks are not only interconnected but also have systemic impacts. To manage global risks effectively and build resilience to their impacts, better efforts are needed to understand, measure and foresee the evolution of interdependencies between risks, supplementing traditional risk-management tools with new concepts designed for uncertain environments. If global risks are not effectively addressed, their social, economic and political fallouts could be far-reaching, as exemplified by the continuing impacts of the financial crisis of 2007-2008.

The systemic nature of our most significant risks calls for procedures and institutions that are globally coordinated yet locally flexible. As international systems of finance, supply chains, health, energy, the Internet and the environment become more complex and interdependent, their level of resilience determines whether they become bulwarks of global stability or amplifiers of cascading shocks. Strengthening resilience requires overcoming collective action challenges through international cooperation among business, government and civil society.

Based on a survey of the World Economic Forum’s multistakeholder communities, the report maps 31 global risks according to level of concern, likelihood and impact and interconnections among them.

The risks of highest concern to respondents are fiscal crises in key economies, structurally high unemployment and underemployment, and water crises:

Ten Global Risks of Highest Concern in 2014

1. Fiscal crises in key economies
2. Structurally high unemployment/underemployment
3. Water crises
4. Severe income disparity
5. Failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation
6. Greater incidence of extreme weather events (e.g. floods, storms, fires
7. Global governance failure
8. Food crises
9. Failure of a major financial mechanism/institution
10. Profound political and social instability

Source: Global Risks Perception Survey 2013-2014. Note: From a list of 31 risks, survey respondents were asked to identify the five they are most concerned about.

The risks considered high impact and high likelihood are mostly environmental and economic in nature: greater incidence of extreme weather events, failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation, water crises, severe income disparity, structurally high unemployment and underemployment and fiscal crises in key economies. Female respondents perceived almost all global risks as both more likely and more impactful than did males, especially in the environmental category. Younger individuals gave higher scores for the impact of almost all of the risks, particularly environmental risks, such as water crises, greater incidence of natural catastrophes, the loss of biodiversity and greater incidence of extreme weather events.

The risks perceived to be most interconnected with other risks are macroeconomic – fiscal crises, and structural unemployment and underemployment – with strong links between this macroeconomic risk nexus and social issues, such as rising income inequality and political and social instability. The failure of global governance emerges as a central risk that is connected to many different issues. Mapping perceived interconnections between risks helps to understand the potential transmission channels between them.

The decline of trust in institutions, lack of leadership, persisting gender inequalities and data mismanagement were among trends to watch, according to survey respondents. Experts added further concerns including various forms of pollution, and accidents or abuse involving new technologies, such as synthetic biology, automated vehicles and 3-D printing.

Three Risks in Focus 
Of the many conceivable ways in which possible interconnections and interdependencies between global risks could play out systemically over the 10-year horizon considered by this report, three are explored in depth:

Instabilities in an increasingly multipolar world: Changing demographics, growing middle classes and fiscal constraints will place increasing domestic demands on governments, deepening requirements for internal reform and shaping international relations. Set against the rise of regional powers, an era of greater economic pragmatism and national self-protection might increase inter-state friction and aggravate a global governance vacuum. This may hinder progress on cross-cutting, long-term challenges, and lead to increased inefficiencies and friction costs in strategically important sectors, such as healthcare, financial services and energy.   Managing this risk will require flexibility, fresh thinking and multistakeholder communication.

Generation lost? The generation coming of age in the 2010s faces high unemployment and precarious job situations, hampering their efforts to build a future and raising the risk of social unrest. In advanced economies, the large number of graduates from expensive and outmoded educational systems – graduating with high debts and mismatched skills – points to a need to adapt and integrate professional and academic education. In developing countries, an estimated two-thirds of the youth are not fulfilling their economic potential. The generation of digital natives is full of ambition to improve the world but feels disconnected from traditional politics; their ambition needs to be harnessed if systemic risks are to be addressed.

Digital disintegration: So far, cyberspace has proved resilient to attacks, but the underlying dynamic of the online world has always been that it is easier to attack than defend. The world may be only one disruptive technology away from attackers gaining a runaway advantage, meaning the Internet would cease to be a trusted medium for communication or commerce.  Fresh thinking at all levels on how to preserve, protect and govern the common good of a trusted cyberspace must be developed.

Collaborative multistakeholder action is needed. Wide variance in how risks are identified and managed still exists. Businesses, governments and civil society alike can improve how they approach risk by taking steps such as opening lines of communication with each other to build trust, systematically learning from others’ experiences, and finding ways to incentivize long-term thinking. By offering a framework for decision-makers to look at risks in a holistic manner, the Global Risks 2014 report aims to provide a platform for dialogue and to stimulate action.
http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2014/executive-summary/

OXFAM: The Food Index
January 2014
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-do/good-enough-to-eat

Overview Excerpt
Interactive snapshot of 125 countries showing the best and worst places in the world to eat, and the challenges people face getting enough of the right food. Around the world, one in eight people go to bed hungry every night, even though there is enough food for everyone. Our graph illustrates how overconsumption, misuse of resources and waste are common elements of a system that leaves hundreds of millions without enough to eat.

Eight established global data sources were identified that capture aspects of the food market relevant for this index. The statistics are from different years, but all the figures are the most recently available from global data sources, such as the World Health Organisation, Each of the sources used different scales in measuring the countries, requiring a process to standardise them so that they could be compared. The standard MIN / MAX rescaling method was used, generating re-scaled values of 0-100 where 0 points is the minimum score (best) and 100 points is the maximum score (worst). The process is based on identifying the countries with the minimum and maximum scores in the original data, scoring them 0 and 100 respectively and then measuring how far every other country is from these maximum and minimum values.

All countries with data for each measure were included in the re-scaling process to ensure that the final result was a globally comparable one. However, only the countries that had data for all eight measures were included in the final index, with one exception. For most developed countries, there is no data available for the underweight children measure. For those countries that achieved the minimum score for the undernourishment measure they were assumed to also be amongst the best in the world for measures for underweight children. The Good Enough To Eat database therefore includes 125 countries. That some of the measures do not include minimum or maximum scores illustrates that there are countries that are better or worse but are not included in the index because they do not have data available for the other measures.

Comment: Development – Time to leave GDP behind
Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success. Countries should act now to embrace new metrics…
Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, Enrico Giovannini, Hunter Lovins, Jacqueline McGlade, Kate E. Pickett, Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir, Debra Roberts, Roberto De Vogli& Richard Wilkinson
http://www.nature.com/news/development-time-to-leave-gdp-behind-1.14499
Nature, 15 January 2014

Excerpt
Robert F. Kennedy once said that a country’s gross domestic product (GDP) measures “everything except that which makes life worthwhile”. The metric was developed in the 1930s and 1940s amid the upheaval of the Great Depression and global war. Even before the United Nations began requiring countries to collect data to report national GDP, Simon Kuznets, the metric’s chief architect, had warned against equating its growth with well-being.

GDP measures mainly market transactions. It ignores social costs, environmental impacts and income inequality. If a business used GDP-style accounting, it would aim to maximize gross revenue — even at the expense of profitability, efficiency, sustainability or flexibility. That is hardly smart or sustainable (think Enron). Yet since the end of the Second World War, promoting GDP growth has remained the primary national policy goal in almost every country1.

Meanwhile, researchers have become much better at measuring what actually does make life worthwhile. The environmental and social effects of GDP growth can be estimated, as can the effects of income inequality2. The psychology of human well-being can now be surveyed comprehensively and quantitatively3, 4. A plethora of experiments has produced alternative measures of progress (see Supplementary Information).

The chance to dethrone GDP is now in sight. By 2015, the UN is scheduled to announce the Sustainable Development Goals, a set of international objectives to improve global well-being. Developing integrated measures of progress attached to these goals offers the global community the opportunity to define what sustainable well-being means, how to measure it and how to achieve it. Missing this opportunity would condone growing inequality and the continued destruction of the natural capital on which all life on the planet depends…

… Alternative measures of progress can be divided into three broad groups (see Supplementary Information). Those in the first group adjust economic measures to reflect social and environmental factors. The second group consists of subjective measures of well-being drawn from surveys. The third group relies on weighted composite indicators of well-being including housing, life expectancy, leisure time and democratic engagement.

Adjusted economic measures. These are expressed in monetary units, making them more readily comparable to GDP. Such indices consider annual income, net savings and wealth. Environmental costs and benefits (such as destroying wetlands or replenishing water resources) can also be factored in. One example is the genuine progress indicator (GPI). This metric is calculated by starting with personal consumption expenditures, a measure of all spending by individuals and a major component of GDP, and making more than 20 additions and subtractions to account for factors such as the value of volunteer work and the costs of divorce, crime and pollution6.

Crucially, unlike other measures in the first group, GPI considers income distribution. A dollar’s worth of increased income to a poor person boosts welfare more than a dollar’s worth of increased income does for a rich person. And a big gap between the richest and the poorest in a country — as in the United States and, increasingly, in China and India — correlates with social problems, including higher rates of drug abuse, incarceration and mistrust, and poorer physical and mental health5…

…Subjective measures of well-being. The most comprehensive of these is the World Values Survey (WVS), which covers about 70 countries and includes questions about how satisfied people are with their lives. Starting in 1981, the WVS is conducted in ‘waves’, the sixth of which is currently in progress. Another example is the gross national happiness index used in Bhutan. This measure uses elaborate surveys that ask how content people feel in nine domains: psychological well-being, standard of living, governance, health, education, community vitality, cultural diversity, time use and ecological diversity.

Subjective well-being has been highly studied, and has even been recommended as the most appropriate measure of societal progress7. But subjective indicators are tricky to compare across societies and cultures. For example, self-reported health tracks with clinically reported rates of morbidity and mortality within countries but not across them8. And people are not always aware of the things that contribute to their well-being. Few of us give credit to ecosystem services for water supply and storm protection, for example.

Weighted composite measures of several indicators. A comprehensive picture of sustainable societal well-being should integrate subjective and objective indicators9(see Supplementary Information, Figure S1), as these measures begin to do. One example is the Happy Planet Index, introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006. This multiplies life satisfaction by life expectancy and divides the product by a measure of ecological impact.

Other indices in the third group combine a range of variables, such as income, housing, jobs, health, civic engagement, safety and life satisfaction. The Better Life Index, developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, maintains a website that allows users to choose how to weight variables, revealing how the emphasis on different variables can influence countries’ rankings…

…If undertaken with sufficiently broad participation, the hunt for the successor to GDP might be completed by 2015. There are significant barriers to doing this, including bureaucratic inertia and the tendency of governments, academia and other groups to work in isolation. These barriers can be overcome with dedicated leadership. Crucially, people can now communicate across the globe with an ease unthinkable in the days of Bretton Woods.

Any ‘top-down’ process must be supplemented with a ‘bottom-up’ engagement of civil society that includes city and regional governments, non-governmental organizations, business and other parties. We recently formed the Alliance for Sustainability and Prosperity (www.asap4all.com) to do just that. This web-based ‘network of networks’ can communicate research about sustainable quality of life and the elements that contribute to it (see Supplementary Information), and so help to build consensus among the thousands of groups now concerned with these issues.

The successor to GDP should be a new set of metrics that integrates current knowledge of how ecology, economics, psychology and sociology collectively contribute to establishing and measuring sustainable well-being. The new metrics must garner broad support from stakeholders in the coming conclaves.

It is often said that what you measure is what you get. Building the future we desire requires that we measure what we want, remembering that it is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

http://www.nature.com/news/development-time-to-leave-gdp-behind-1.14499

AMREF

Ugandan Community Lauds Efforts To Improve Education, Health and Sanitation
“Were it not for AMREF, we would probably still be drinking water from the wells,” recounted 38 year old Mary Among referring to the boreholes drilled and equipped by AMREF.  “Thankfully,  we can now access clean drinking water from nearby boreholes.”   Her sentiments were echoed by the people of Katine sub-county in Soroti district  who were thrilled by the work AMREF has been doing to improve education, health and sanitation through its various programmes.

BRAC

BRAC distribute 20,000 blankets in 13 districts of Bangladesh
16 January 2014, Dhaka. BRAC distributed 20,000 blankets in the coldest districts of northern and southern Bangladesh. The first cold wave of this year hit the people of northern and southern part of the country the hardest, causing many to suffer. BRAC promptly took the initiative to distribute blankets in 81 upazila under 13 districts. During 12-16 January 2014, 1,000 blankets in Panchagarth; 2,000 in Nilphamari; 1,500 in Thakurgaon; 2,000 in Dinajpur; 1,500 in Joypurhut; 1,000 in Pabna; 1,5……Read More

Haiti’s on its feet again, literally
January 12, 2014 by Scott MacMillan
Today marked the four-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. Our friends at AmeriCares write about Herve, a patient at the BRAC Limb and Brace Center, who like so many others lost his legs in the quake…

BRAC @BRACworld Jan 18
Here’s BRAC distributing warm clothes amongst the needy in 13 districts of #Bangladesh – http://on.fb.me/1dFG1hC  pic.twitter.com/Y4fFl733PK
3:39 AM – 18 Jan 2014

BRAC @BRACworld Jan 18
BRAC Maendeleo with support from @gatesfoundation out to help Tanzania’s small & medium http://farmers-bit.ly/1e0AjDj  #Africa #agriculture
3:36 AM – 18 Jan 2014

BRAC @BRACworld Jan 15
BRAC’s Mushtaque Chowdhury introducing Lancet series on “Bangladesh miracle” @RockefellerFdn in NYC http://www.thelancet.com/series/bangladesh …
3:43 PM – 15 Jan 2014

BRAC @BRACworld Jan 14
BRAC, @UN_Women & gov of Norway create a training prog to help natural #disaster victims of #Bangladesh – http://bit.ly/1anba7Y 
8:25 PM – 14 Jan 2014

Casa Alianza

Covenant House a Finalist in the Partnership for Freedom Opportunity Challenge
01/14/2014 – 10:15am
Covenant House and LifeWay Network have been named finalists in the Partnership for Freedom Reimagine Opportunity Challenge, a competition seeking innovative ideas to better care for survivors of modern-day slavery in the United States.

To Stop Traffickers, Stop Their Supply of Kids
Kevin M. Ryan
President and CEO, Covenant House
Huffington Post Blog
Posted: 01/16/2014 11:58 am
Eighteen-year-old Julie told me in no uncertain terms how she got involved in prostitution. “The situation was forcing me,” she said. “I just couldn’t do the homeless thing. I just couldn’t stand to be on the streets anymore.”

No homeless kid sells his or her body to a john by choice. A recent study by Covenant House New York and Fordham University found that almost one in four of surveyed homeless youth were either victims of trafficking or felt they needed to trade sex in order to survive. Almost half of them said that not having a place to stay was a main reason for their trafficking exploitation. All of them regretted having to trade their bodies.

In a few weeks, the world is coming to Rutherford, N.J., for the Super Bowl. While there are no firm numbers of how much the forced sex and labor trade expands during the week of the Super Bowl, the influx of hundreds of thousands of visitors means more homeless kids may be put at risk. And make no mistake, vulnerable kids are at risk. This week’s announcement by New Jersey’s acting Essex County prosecutor of indictments against four individuals for allegedly trafficking a 15-year-old girl for months across the state, forcing her to have sex with strangers, makes that crystal clear.

We already know from our outreach efforts there are a large number of pimps who hang out and recruit near bus and train stations and specific shops and fast food places where homeless youth are known to congregate. They ensnare thousands of kids each year: In New York City alone, 2,200 child victims of human trafficking are discovered annually, with another 400 upstate, ranking New York fourth after California, Texas, and Florida, for the number of minor victims.

I suspect that prostitutes, mostly women, will be brought into the New York/New Jersey area for the Super Bowl on February 2. Many of the young trafficking victims Covenant House serves have told stories of being taken on “the circuit,” moved from city to city, based on where the conventioneers or sports fans were gathering. It certainly makes sense that pimps would follow the demand for sex-for-sale, with the added benefit to them of keeping their workers moving from place to place, steps ahead of the law, disconnected from the communities and the people who could help them escape and build a safer life.

At Covenant House, we see that every single instance of trafficking leaves behind damaged souls and bodies, particularly when the trafficked person is underage. As is so often the case, many of these kids have already confronted the steepest of challenges; they are survivors of homelessness, long-term foster care, broken families, and other circumstances that make it very difficult to build a safe new life.

Prevention efforts of advocates and law enforcement officials for February 2 are in full swing, and I commend these efforts. At Covenant House in New York City and New Jersey, we are ramping up our outreach efforts to protect vulnerable children from harm, and our shelters will be open 24 hours a day for any youth in need of shelter.

There is good news on the anti-trafficking front. Much advocacy work is being done to bring about stricter punishments for those who traffic children and for the adults who buy their bodies. Just this month, New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, signed critically important legislation to protect all of New York’s commercially sexually exploited children, extending the ground-breaking Safe Harbor Act to 16- and 17-year-olds. In addition to being the first state in the country to pass a version of Safe Harbor, which helps minors who have been commercially sexually exploited receive social services, instead of jail sentences, New York has continued its leadership as the first state to develop Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, which specialize in prostitution and trafficking cases. We have the legal framework in New York to help all commercially exploited youth. Now, we need services.

We know all too well that there are not enough beds for homeless young people across the country, and when vulnerable youth do not have access to shelter and services, there is a pimp or trafficker lying in wait to lure them. We have put together a petition asking Gov. Cuomo to include $20.2 million to provide shelter and services for trafficking victims and homeless youth.    Please consider signing it here, because clearly, more support for outreach and safe shelters for homeless youth is critical. Let’s make it harder for traffickers to stay in business, by keeping vulnerable kids off the streets in the first place.

It is clear that advocates for victims of child sexual exploitation have our work cut out for us, during Super Bowl week and every day of the year. No child should be left to fend for himself or herself on the streets of our cities. Most of us have been blessed with moms, dads, grandparents, or other people who believe wholeheartedly that we need to be kept safe when we are children. For the thousands who have been denied this basic right, it is our moral responsibility to protect and nurture them.

No child should be forced to sell his or her body to strangers, many times a night, for someone else’s profit.

ECPAT

ECPATUSACarol @ECPATUSACarol Jan 18
ECPAT-USA is part of the End It Movement February 27 is the big day http://tinyurl.com/llb5lp4  #trafficking
7:22 AM – 18 Jan 2014

ECPAT International @ECPAT Jan 17
We are hiring! ECPAT is looking for a #Thailand External Relations and Program Officer to join our team. http://www.ecpat.net/employment 
1:02 AM – 17 Jan 2014

Handicap International

Handicap Intl UK @HI_UK Jan 17
We’ve launched new demining activities in DRC – 30,000 square metres of land will be cleared http://bit.ly/1j8NOWj  #landmines
8:14 AM – 17 Jan 2014

Handicap Intl UK @HI_UK Jan 15
Here’s our written evidence to the @CommonsIDC #Disability and #Development Inquiry http://bit.ly/L3Kjo7  @boggs_dorothy
2:30 AM – 15 Jan 2014

Dorothy Boggs @boggs_dorothy Jan 14
Watch Ola Abu Alghaib from @HI_UK present oral evidence at @CommonsIDC #disability and #development inquiry session this morning
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Heifer International

January 17, 2014
Haiti Four Years After the Quake: There’s Good News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
Four years ago this week a devastating earthquake hit the Caribbean Island of Haiti. In the years that have passed, many smallholder farmers have seen important improvements in their lives.
Full Press Release

January 15, 2014
Heifer International Receives $25.5M Grant to Expand Its East Africa Dairy Development Program – ‘Milk for Health and Wealth’
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
Heifer International received a $25.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project and assist more than 136,000 farm families in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Full Press Release

Heifer International ‏@Heifer Jan 17
Watch: Africa Programs VP talks about the second phase of the East Africa Dairy Development Program. http://hefr.in/1dg5zNH 
5:00 PM – 17 Jan 2014

Pierre Ferrari @HeiferCEO Jan 13
Glad to see @Heifer is in great company: 101 Organizations to Watch in 2014 http://goo.gl/HnB37O#.UtBti3z9YJU.twitter … via @Food_Tank #IYFF14
6:01 AM – 13 Jan 2014

HelpAge International

HelpAge @helpage Jan 17
An introduction to humanitarian accountability from @HAPInt in simple terms and in under 4 mins http://bit.ly/1dBJGhT 
7:33 AM – 17 Jan 2014

HelpAge @helpage Jan 17
Congrats to our partner COSE! They’ve just won an award from the Philippine Government for humanitarian work! #Haiyan pic.twitter.com/6ZkfoJniTb
2:22 AM – 17 Jan 2014

HelpAge @helpage Jan 15
#Haiyan destroyed 15mil coconut trees, leaving farmers without work. We’re given them 5,500 bags of seed & fertiliser http://bit.ly/1aoeNYj 
6:53 AM – 15 Jan 2014

HelpAgeUSA @HelpAge_USA Jan 15
The answer: 52% of small-scale farmers in the #Philippines are aged 50+! Learn how we support them http://bit.ly/1eSBBST 
11:59 AM – 15 Jan 2014 ·

HelpAgeUSA ‏@HelpAge_USA Jan 13
4yrs after the #Haitiearthquake we continue 2 support 200K+ victims, including providing new homes 4 older farmers http://twitpic.com/ds5ojy 
7:31 AM – 13 Jan 2014 ·

International Rescue Committee

David Miliband @DMiliband Jan 18
My @washingtonpost Op-Ed on the siege in #Syria>>> http://bit.ly/1eIl3MT  #Geneva2
Retweeted by Intl Rescue Comm IRC
4:15 AM – 18 Jan 2014

Intl Rescue Comm IRC @theIRC Jan 17
Our president @DMiliband went on @ReutersInsider & talked about #resettlement for #refugees in the US & more. Video: http://reut.rs/1b5dWzo 
11:53 AM – 17 Jan 2014

Intl Rescue Comm IRC @theIRC Jan 17
On @HuffPostPol, IRC’s Sharon Waxman calls on the US & others to open their doors to #SyrianRefugees: http://bit.ly/1j8FSEt  #resettlement
7:52 AM – 17 Jan 2014

Intl Rescue Comm IRC ‏@theIRC Jan 16
IRC + partners have distributed 20k+ #WakaWaka lamps in #Syria. A first hand account of @SolarForSyria‘s power>> http://bit.ly/1eOczpQ 
12:51 PM – 16 Jan 2014

Intl Rescue Comm IRC ‏@theIRC Jan 13
In the 4 yrs since the #Haiti earthquake, IRC has reunited over 1k children w their families. Read Fifie’s story: http://bit.ly/1djzTLK 
10:18 AM – 13 Jan 2014

IRC Blog
Ending Syrians’ suffering [commentary]
Posted by giselle benatar on January 18, 2014
On the eve of the Geneva II conference, IRC President David Miliband calls on key actors to address four issues and bring immediate humanitarian relief to besieged Syrians. more »

Open the door for Syrian refugees [Commentary]
Posted by The IRC on January 16, 2014
Based on the growing need for large-scale resettlement of displaced Syrians, the IRC calls on the US and other countries to open their doors to vulnerable Syrian refugees. more »

Meeting Syrian humanitarian needs in 2014
Posted by Sue Dwyer on January 14, 2014
There are children going hungry, elderly who struggle to stay warm, girls and women who have been raped, and men who have lost their dignity because they cannot provide for their family. As humanitarians we cannot stop the war, but we can address the lifesaving needs and promote human dignity with sufficient resources and the ability to reach those most in need. more »

Four years after the Haiti earthquake, reuniting children with families
Posted by Jordan Helton on January 13, 2014
Fifie was one of an estimated 200,000 children working as restaveks, a form of indentured labor that often results in abuse. Four years after the devastating earthquake, the IRC continues to protect children like Fifie and by reuniting them with their families in Haiti. more »

MSF/Médecins Sans Frontières

January 17, 2014
South Sudan: MSF Forced to Suspend Activities in Malakal
Thousands of people are going without desperately needed medical care after MSF was forced to suspend activities in Malakal, South Sudan, following the looting of its compound yesterday. Read more »

Doctors w/o Borders ‏@MSF_USA Jan 13
In the #WestBank, MSF provides psycho-medical-social care to help patients deal with the stress of ongoing violence http://bit.ly/1d1sM6f 
12:46 PM – 13 Jan 2014

Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA Jan 13
At Ehiopia’s Bole airport MSF is providing care to tens of thousands of returnees recently deported from Saudi Arabia http://bit.ly/1j44DEb 
12:43 PM – 13 Jan 2014

MSF UK @MSF_uk Jan 17
In the last month we have carried out 41,899 consultations amidst the #SouthSudanCrisis pic.twitter.com/zIu29FRJjV
3:54 AM – 17 Jan 2014

MSF UK @MSF_uk Jan 14
Our latest video update from the #CentralAfricanRepublic http://msf.me/1dnHhFL  #MSF #CARcrisis
8:56 AM – 14 Jan 2014 ·

ICRC United Kingdom @ICRC_uk Jan 13
ICRC & @MSF_uk surgical teams working continuously at #Bangui hospital, where some 60 wounded have arrived since Fri pic.twitter.com/OCjExXkyNl
Retweeted by MSF UK
3:35 AM – 13 Jan 2014 ·

Partners In Health

Jan 18, 2014
The Drum Major Instinct: A Reflection on Martin Luther King Day
In “To Repair the World,” Dr. Paul Farmer reflects on Dr. Martin Luther King’s work to create a more just world.

Partners In Health ‏@PIH Jan 17
.@JacobKushner on the importance of medical education at University Hospital in #Haiti via @GlobalPost http://ow.ly/sHaYz 
11:08 AM – 17 Jan 2014

Partners In Health @PIH Jan 15
Expansion of specialty services at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti. Learn more: http://ow.ly/sBYYM  pic.twitter.com/eMun4zhpUs
7:49 AM – 15 Jan 2014 ·

Partners In Health ‏@PIH Jan 13
University Hospital is decentralizing #healthcare and economic activity in #Haiti http://ow.ly/sx0kj  pic.twitter.com/FUTzPtFZGc
7:13 AM – 13 Jan 2014

PATH

Announcement | January 17, 2014
PATH names director of strategic initiatives for International Development
Global health and development leader Katharine Kreis to guide strategic geographic presence

Press release | January 14, 2014
PATH names former White House advisor Grant Colfax as leader of its HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Program
Former Obama administration public health expert and leading clinical scientist will oversee program and advise PATH’s translational science policy

PATH @PATHtweets Jan 16
New PATH article: “Prioritizing investments in innovations to protect women from leading causes of maternal death” http://bit.ly/1a4Ay51 
3:15 PM – 16 Jan 2014 ·

Steve Davis @SteveDavisPATH Jan 16
A warm welcome to former White House advisor Grant Colfax, the new leader of PATH’s HIV/AIDS & TB program: http://bit.ly/1iPAPZi  #OnePATH
Retweeted by PATH
5:31 AM – 16 Jan 2014

SOS-Kinderdorf International

Children’s Villages ‏@sos4children Jan 17
Children able to play again after Typhoon #Haiyan at SOS Child Care Space in Bisleng http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/news/typhoon-haiyan-emergency-appeal-2013/children-play-again-after-typhoon-haiyan … #Philippines
2:20 AM – 17 Jan 2014

Children’s Villages @sos4children Jan 13
SOS Village Bangui acts as a refuge for thousands of displaced people amid violence in #CentralAfricanRepublic http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/news/sos-village-acts-as-a-refuge-amid-CAR-violence …
2:30 AM – 13 Jan 2014

Tostan
Tostan @Tostan Jan 17
Awa Diop leads awareness-raising activities encouraging the modernization of Koranic schools. Find out why here: http://bit.ly/1fF95Jb 
7:03 AM – 17 Jan 2014

Tostan @Tostan Jan 16
102 solar kits provide electricity to two communities in Senegal – http://bit.ly/1daeOPo  @TostanFrance @barefootpower
8:35 AM – 16 Jan 2014

Tostan @Tostan Jan 13
Our founder @MollyMelching went to buy fish & got a lesson in brain development from a participant in our program! http://bit.ly/1ahlf6o 
8:46 AM – 13 Jan 2014

UNICEF [to 18 January 2014]
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_71508.html

UNICEF statement on the loss of staff members in the Kabul bombing
NEW YORK , 18 January 2014 – Less than one year ago, UNICEF paid tribute to colleagues who have lost their lives for the sake of a better future for all children, with a memorial at UNICEF House. Today, with great sadness and anger, we must add two more names to that list of heroes.

‘Breaking Views with UNICEF’ hits the airwaves
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa/NAIROBI, Kenya/FLORENCE, Italy, 16 January 2014 – UNICEF today launched a groundbreaking new TV series: Breaking Views with UNICEF. The series of 26 interviews will air on prime time television from Thursday 16 January, on E News Channel Africa, ENCA, across East and Southern Africa, and on BSkyB in the UK.

UNICEF: Child combatants reported in South Sudan conflict
JUBA, South Sudan, 17 January 2014 – UNICEF today expressed its deep concern about the use of children as combatants in the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan.

Central African Republic: 23 children released from armed groups
BANGUI, Central African Republic/DAKAR, Senegal/GENEVA, 17 January 2014 – Twenty-three children between 14 and 17 years old were released from armed groups in Bangui on Thursday, with many more identified for release in the coming days.

ECHO and UNICEF join forces for crisis affected children to go back to school
BAMAKO/BRUSSELS, 15 January 2014 – The Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department of the European Commission (ECHO) is providing EUR 3 million for children’s education in crisis affected in Mali.

Candidates sit for primary school graduation exams while sheltering at UN compounds in Juba
JUBA, 14 January 2014 – Hundreds of students in the capital of South Sudan are this week sitting their primary school graduation exam at the United Nations compounds where they have been living since violence erupted in the city almost a month ago.

UNICEF participates in 2nd High Level International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, January 15, 2014
Media Advisory: UNICEF participates in 2nd High Level International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, January 15, 2014

UNHCR [to 18 January 2014]
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home

17 January 2014
Turkey hosts Ministerial Coordination Meeting of Major Host Countries for Syrian Refugees

15 January 2014
UNHCR invites journalists, journalist organizations to nominate candidates for the 2014 Nansen Refugee Award

UNOCHA [to 18 January 2014]
http://www.unocha.org/
Latest Press Releases

17 Jan 2014
Central African Republic: Emergency Relief Coordinator’s key messages on the Central African Republic 17 January 2014 – Issue Number 1
Key Messages
The political crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) worsened over the last year, leading to a breakdown of law and order and brutal inter-communal violence in December 2013. The extreme poverty, lack of governance, insecurity, and a range of complex political, religious and human rights issues have contributed to a major humanitarian crisis in the country,…

17 Jan 2014
Chad: Revue de Presse Humanitaire au Tchad Du 11 au 17 janvier 2014
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Central African Republic, Chad

17 Jan 2014
Sudan: Central Emergency Response Fund allocates US$86 million to support aid efforts in ten chronically neglected crises

17 Jan 2014
Syrian Arab Republic: “How Much Longer?”

16 Jan 2014
Central African Republic: Time is running out to prevent a genocide

16 Jan 2014
Central African Republic: OCHA Operations Director, John Ging Opening remarks to the Press on Central African Republic – Press conference, Geneva, 16 January 2014

16 Jan 2014
Philippines: Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos Statement on the Philippines: Two months on

15 Jan 2014
Syrian Arab Republic: Donors pledge $2.4 billion for Syrians in need

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territory, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey

(Kuwait City, 15 January 2014): International donors today in Kuwait pledged more than $2.4 billion to support aid organizations’ response to the massive humanitarian needs generated by the crisis in Syria.
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Philippines: Summary of Partner Organizations in Region VI (as of 13 Jan 2014)

UNESCO [t0 18 January 2014]
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17 Jan 14
Empowerment of rural women in Jordan through heritage conservation for sustainable development

16 Jan 14
UNESCO is seeking nominations for UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2014

15 Jan 14
UNESCO advocates for increased investment in quality education for Syrian youth

15 Jan 14
Science-Policy Workshop on Climate Change Impacts in Major Mountainous Regions of the World

14 Jan 14
Reducing our CO2 emissions is the only possible response to ocean acidification