Hilton Prize Coalition [to 19 March 2016]
http://prizecoalition.charity.org/
An Alliance of Hilton Prize Recipients

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Part 4 of the Storytelling Series in Nepal: The Beauty of Our Journey
Posted March 18, 2016
Rasmi Dangol currently serves as the Accountability Assistant for HelpAge International Nepal, where she has worked since 2014. She has been an instrumental player in the Hilton Prize Coalition Storytelling Program in Nepal, supporting Steve Connors, the Master Storyteller, and working alongside the In-Country Coordination team. In this piece, Rasmi reflects on her experience as […]

CHS Alliance [to 19 March 2016]
http://chsalliance.org/news-events/news

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15/03/2016
What makes an effective leadership team in a charity?
What are the characteristics of an outstanding leadership team? Charities are complex organisations that often work in challenging situations and rely heavily on their leadership teams to fulfil their mandates and missions. However, there isn’t a lot of documented research on senior leadership teams in charities.

The publication Building outstanding leadership teams – insights from charity chief executives, sheds light on the issue and key findings from it were shared by Compass Partnerships Director Mike Hudson at Agenda Consulting’s Third Sector Strategic People Conference in London last week..

The study sought to understand what it is that makes senior leadership teams effective by looking at the prevalence of 75 characteristics in the leadership teams of 100 large UK charities. These findings led Compass Partnerships to identify a number of key drivers of effective leadership teams.

Drivers of outstanding senior leadership teams:
:: Effective leadership of behaviour – this was defined as the leadership team modeling desired behaviour, acting as a team outside meetings, communicating well with managers, and managing stakeholder relations.
:: Great team working by valuing style and personality differences, maintaining a cohesive team, being open about mistakes and weaknesses, and good at compromising.
:: Effective team meetings characterised by listening to each other, using each other’s talent during meetings, following through agreed actions, taking good decisions.
:: Clear leadership of strategy and impact by tracking achievement of strategic objectives, focusing on strategic issues, focusing on achievement of impact, and bringing innovative and new ideas.
:: Investment in team development such as by days spent on working together better as a team, reviewing team performance, external support, and planning to improve team effectiveness. This was found to be the area that charities are currently not performing well in and need to improve…

EHLRA/R2HC [to 19 March 2016]
http://www.elrha.org/resource-hub/news/

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Published on 18/03/2016
Event – Innovating humanitarian action: more than just luck
21 April 2016, 16:00 – 17:30 Public event | Streamed live online Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, London
ALNAP and ELRHA’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund’s new research is the first study to untangle how to innovate successfully in humanitarian action, and the upcoming edition of HPN’s Humanitarian Exchange magazine showcases a range of cutting edge initiatives. This event will bring together grassroots innovators and leading humanitarian officials, to discuss how to channel the momentum gathering behind humanitarian innovation and shape the future of the sector going into the World Humanitarian Summit – and beyond.

Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP) [to 19 March 2016]
https://phap.org/

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18 March 2016
Podcasts of consultations in support of the WHS now available
Over the past two years, PHAP has organized more than 30 live online events in support of the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS). These events have brought close to 5 000 participants in the live events and another 9 000 have already accessed recordings of them. To make the recordings of these..

Center for Global Development [to 19 March 2016]
http://www.cgdev.org/page/press-center
Selected Press Releases, Blog Posts, Publications
Six Questions African Policymakers Must Answer Now
3/14/16
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The “Africa rising” story of the past decade, fueled by 5 percent average annual growth, is in danger of faltering. To change the narrative, and — more importantly — the reality it describes, African policymakers must urgently answer these six questions.

ODI [to 19 March 2016]
http://www.odi.org/media
Publications

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Shock responsive social protection systems research report
Bibliography and literature reviews | March 2016 | Francesca Bastagli, Simon Brook, Joanna Buckley, Cécile Cherrier, Jenny Congrave, Andrew Kardan, Simon Levine, Katie McIntosh, Clare O’Brien, Clara Richards, Gabrielle Smith and Zoë Scott.
A review of recent literature on the theory and practice of shock-responsive social protection initiatives and their effectiveness.

A study on organisational development
Research reports and studies | March 2016 | Jessica Mackenzie and Rebecca Gordon
This report explains what ‘organisational development’ is and provides good practice examples, frameworks and recommendations for getting started.

Innovating for pro-poor services: why politics matter
Research reports and studies | March 2016 | Nathaniel Mason; Clare Cummings; Julian Doczi
This report addresses how politics matter for innovations. How politically smart approaches can help deliver access to services.

World Economic Forum [to 19 March 2016]
https://agenda.weforum.org/news/

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News 16 Mar 2016
Meet Africa’s Young Global Leaders Driving The Fourth Industrial Revolution
:: 12 men and women from Africa are among the 121 people, aged under 40, have been invited to join the Young Global Leaders (YGL) community of the World Economic Forum
:: New YGLs are at the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: one of the most powerful women in financial technology in Africa; an entrepreneur whose non-profit that builds mobile health units; and a woman who is one of the most pioneering tech voices in African.
:: The new class of YGLs show what the future of global leadership could be: more women, more leaders from emerging economies, more innovators from tech and the public sector.

Aga Khan Foundation [to 19 March 2016]
http://www.akdn.org/pr.asp

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17 March 2016
Aga Khan Extols a Free and Responsible Media while Opening New Printing Plant in Kenya
His Highness the Aga Khan today emphasized the importance of reliable and trustworthy media at the opening of the Nation Media Group’s new, state-of-the art printing plant in Kenya.

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation [to 19 March 2016]
http://www.hiltonfoundation.org/news

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Our News
Cognitive Development Interventions Gain Momentum in Health Delivery Settings in East and Southern Africa
By Lisa Bohmer, March 17, 2016
Brain development is at its most rapid during the first 1,000 days of life, when early experiences fundamentally shape brain architecture and future potential. By age three, 85% of the brain architecture has already been built. Despite this, the concept that learning begins at birth has not yet caught on and the majority of early childhood development (ECD) programs focus on pre-school age children from age three and up. Fortunately, health systems provide an opportunity to reach the youngest children and their caregivers—beginning in pregnancy—with services that promote healthy growth and development. UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) have developed a package for health systems that is designed to teach caregivers about responsive care and stimulation practices for their infants and young children, from birth through age two.

The package, called Care for Child Development (CCD), has been successfully implemented in both community and clinical settings. The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation provides support for training using this package given that skills building for parents and caregivers is a focus of our Children Affected by HIV and AIDS Strategic Initiative. We have partnered with organizations working in East and Southern Africa—including PATH, the Aga Khan Development Network and UNICEF—to initially pilot and (more recently) begin to scale-up this package…

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Our News
President and CEO Peter Laugharn Interviewed by Alliance Magazine
March 17, 2016
On March 11, our President and CEO Peter Laugharn was featured as part of an interview with Charles Keidan of Alliance Magazine.

IKEA Foundation [to 19 March 2016]
https://www.ikeafoundation.org/category/press-releases/

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March 15, 2016
IKEA Foundation gives grants worth €9.4 million to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Save the Children to help children and families caught up in Syria conflict
As the conflict in Syria enters its fifth year, the IKEA Foundation has donated €9.4 million to help children and their families, both within Syria and in neighbouring countries. The money is supporting the lifesaving work of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Save the Children…

Open Society Foundation [to 19 March 2016]
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/issues/media-information
March 16, 2016
Filmmakers in Syria Humanize a Conflict Overwhelmed by Media Images
by Ali Atassi
To counterbalance endless images of violence and rubble, a group in Syria is training filmmakers to excavate personal stories from the conflict.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [to 19 March 2016]
http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/news-releases.html

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March 16, 2016
County Health Rankings Show Stark Differences in Premature Death Rates
The 2016 County Health Rankings, an important tool for communities working to improve health, includes several new health-related measures including residential segregation, drug overdose deaths and insufficient sleep.

BMC Infectious Diseases
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcinfectdis/content
(Accessed 19 March 2016)

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Study protocol
Clinical evaluation of dengue and identification of risk factors for severe disease: protocol for a multicentre study in 8 countries
The burden of dengue continues to increase globally, with an estimated 100 million clinically apparent infections occurring each year.
Thomas Jaenisch, Dong Thi Hoai Tam, Nguyen Tan Thanh Kieu, Tran Van Ngoc, Nguyen Tran Nam, Nguyen Van Kinh, Sophie Yacoub, Ngoun Chanpheaktra, Varun Kumar, Lucy Lum Chai See, Jameela Sathar, Ernesto Pleités Sandoval, Gabriela Maria Marón Alfaro, Ida Safitri Laksono, Yodi Mahendradhata, Malabika Sarker…
BMC Infectious Diseases 2016 16:120
Published on: 11 March 2016

BMC Medicine
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmed/content
(Accessed 19 March 2016)

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Commentary
Open Access
Reporting transparency: making the ethical mandate explicit
Stuart G. Nicholls, Sinéad M. Langan, Eric I. Benchimol and David Moher
BMC Medicine201614:44
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0587-5
Published: 16 March 2016
Abstract
Improving the transparency and quality of reporting in biomedical research is considered ethically important; yet, this is often based on practical reasons such as the facilitation of peer review. Surprisingly, there has been little explicit discussion regarding the ethical obligations that underpin reporting guidelines. In this commentary, we suggest a number of ethical drivers for the improved reporting of research. These ethical drivers relate to researcher integrity as well as to the benefits derived from improved reporting such as the fair use of resources, minimizing risk of harms, and maximizing benefits. Despite their undoubted benefit to reporting completeness, questions remain regarding the extent to which reporting guidelines can influence processes beyond publication, including researcher integrity or the uptake of scientific research findings into policy or practice. Thus, we consider investigation on the effects of reporting guidelines an important step in providing evidence of their benefits.

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpregnancychildbirth/content
(Accessed 19 March 2016)

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Research article
A systematic review to examine the evidence regarding discussions by midwives, with women, around their options for where to give birth
Discussion of place of birth is important for women and maternity services, yet the detail, content and delivery of these discussions are unclear.
Catherine Henshall, Beck Taylor and Sara Kenyon
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2016 16:53
Published on: 14 March 2016

British Medical Journal
19 March 2016 (vol 352, issue 8049)
http://www.bmj.com/content/352/8049

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Research Update
Refugee migration and risk of schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses: cohort study of 1.3 million people in Sweden
BMJ 2016; 352 :i1030 (Published 15 March 2016)
Anna-Clara Hollander, postdoctoral researcher1, Henrik Dal, statistician2, Glyn Lewis, professor of psychiatric epidemiology3, Cecilia Magnusson, professor of public health epidemiology1 2, James B Kirkbride, Sir Henry Dale fellow3, Christina Dalman, professor of psychiatric epidemiology1 2
Abstract
Objective To determine whether refugees are at elevated risk of schizophrenia and other non-affective psychotic disorders, relative to non-refugee migrants from similar regions of origin and the Swedish-born population.
Design Cohort study of people living in Sweden, born after 1 January 1984 and followed from their 14th birthday or arrival in Sweden, if later, until diagnosis of a non-affective psychotic disorder, emigration, death, or 31 December 2011.
Setting Linked Swedish national register data.
Participants 1 347 790 people, including people born in Sweden to two Swedish-born parents (1 191 004; 88.4%), refugees (24 123; 1.8%), and non-refugee migrants (132 663; 9.8%) from four major refugee generating regions: the Middle East and north Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe and Russia.
Main outcome measures Cox regression analysis was used to estimate adjusted hazard ratios for non-affective psychotic disorders by refugee status and region of origin, controlling for age at risk, sex, disposable income, and population density.
Results 3704 cases of non-affective psychotic disorder were identified during 8.9 million person years of follow-up. The crude incidence rate was 38.5 (95% confidence interval 37.2 to 39.9) per 100 000 person years in the Swedish-born population, 80.4 (72.7 to 88.9) per 100 000 person years in non-refugee migrants, and 126.4 (103.1 to 154.8) per 100 000 person years in refugees. Refugees were at increased risk of psychosis compared with both the Swedish-born population (adjusted hazard ratio 2.9, 95% confidence interval 2.3 to 3.6) and non-refugee migrants (1.7, 1.3 to 2.1) after adjustment for confounders. The increased rate in refugees compared with non-refugee migrants was more pronounced in men (likelihood ratio test for interaction χ2 (df=2) z=13.5; P=0.001) and was present for refugees from all regions except sub-Saharan Africa. Both refugees and non-refugee migrants from sub-Saharan Africa had similarly high rates relative to the Swedish-born population.
Conclusions Refugees face an increased risk of schizophrenia and other non-affective psychotic disorders compared with non-refugee migrants from similar regions of origin and the native-born Swedish population. Clinicians and health service planners in refugee receiving countries should be aware of a raised risk of psychosis in addition to other mental and physical health inequalities experienced by refugees.

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Editorials
Non-affective psychosis in refugees
BMJ 2016; 352 :i1279 (Published 15 March 2016)
Cornelius Katona, medical director
Risk is exacerbated by adverse experiences after arrival, including detention, unemployment, and racism
[Initial text]
In 2015, 244 million people (3.3% of the world’s population) lived outside their country of origin. This represents an increase of 39% since 2000.1 2 The decision to migrate may be made for economic betterment or (in the case of “refugees”) to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. Such motives are not of course mutually exclusive. Substantial evidence shows that the risk of non-affective psychosis is increased (by a factor of about 2.5) in migrants compared with the indigenous population.3

In a linked paper (doi:10.1136/bmj.i1030), Hollander and colleagues argue that this increase is due predominantly to exposure to psychosocial adversities.4 They used national register data to carry out a cohort study of more than 1.3 million people in Sweden, in which risk of non-affective psychosis was compared not only between people born in Sweden and migrants to Sweden but also between refugees and non-refugees within the migrant group. They hypothesised that, because of their increased vulnerability to psychosocial adversity, incidence of non-affective psychosis would be particularly high in the refugee group. The study was restricted to relatively young people (born in 1984 or later). Follow-up was to the end of 2011 or to emigration, death, or a diagnosis of non-affective psychosis. The authors’ primary hypothesis was confirmed: incidence rates for non-affective psychosis were 385 per million in those born in Sweden, 804 per million in non-refugee migrants, and 1264 per million in refugees…

Eurosurveillance
Volume 21, Issue 11, 17 March 2016
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/Public/Articles/Archives.aspx?PublicationId=11678

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Rapid Communications
Measles outbreak in a refugee settlement in Calais, France: January to February 2016
by G Jones, S Haeghebaert, B Merlin, D Antona, N Simon, M Elmouden, F Battist, M Janssens, K Wyndels, P Chaud
Abstract
We report a measles outbreak in a refugee settlement in Calais, France, between 5 January and 11 February 2016. In total, 13 confirmed measles cases were identified among migrants, healthcare workers in hospital and volunteers working on site. A large scale vaccination campaign was carried out in the settlement within two weeks of outbreak notification. In total, 60% of the estimated target population of 3,500 refugees was vaccinated during the week-long campaign.

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Research Articles
Risk assessment, risk management and risk-based monitoring following a reported accidental release of poliovirus in Belgium, September to November 2014
by E Duizer, S Rutjes, A Husman, J Schijven
Abstract
On 6 September 2014, the accidental release of 1013 infectious wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) particles by a vaccine production plant in Belgium was reported. WPV3 was released into the sewage system and discharged directly to a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and subsequently into rivers that flowed to the Western Scheldt and the North Sea. No poliovirus was detected in samples from the WWTP, surface waters, mussels or sewage from the Netherlands. Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) showed that the infection risks resulting from swimming in Belgium waters were above 50% for several days and that the infection risk by consuming shellfish harvested in the eastern part of the Western Scheldt warranted a shellfish cooking advice. We conclude that the reported release of WPV3 has neither resulted in detectable levels of poliovirus in any of the samples nor in poliovirus circulation in the Netherlands. This QMRA showed that relevant data on water flows were not readily available and that prior assumptions on dilution factors were overestimated. A QMRA should have been performed by all vaccine production facilities before starting up large-scale culture of WPV to be able to implement effective interventions when an accident happens.

Genocide Studies International
Volume 10, Issue 1, Spring 2016
http://www.utpjournals.press/toc/gsi/current

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Articles
State Strength, Non-State Actors, and the Guatemalan Genocide: Comparative Lessons
Frederick M. Shepherd
Frederick M. Shepherd is professor at Samford University, and is the author of Christianity and Human Rights: Christians and the Struggle for Global Justice (Lexington, 2009). He has been affiliated with the Holocaust Education Foundation, the US Holocaust Memorial and Museum, and was part of the Resisting the Path to Genocide Research Cluster at the University of Southern California.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/gsi.10.1.06
Abstract
This article focuses on the Guatemalan genocide—which has been labeled “acts of genocide” by the United Nations—in the context of the Guatemalan state’s weakness in mobilizing people and resources for its genocidal project. State planners were able to brutalize the indigenous population, especially during the early 1980s. But at the same time, the state showed extraordinary weakness in basic state functions such as taxing and military mobilization. The article links these failures to a more general state absence of “infrastructural capacity,” and to the strength of powerful non-state forces originating inside and outside of Guatemalan national borders. The article concludes with comparative lessons from other genocides—notably the Holocaust and Rwanda—marked by state strength in the areas of mobilizing people and resources.

Health Affairs
March 2016; Volume 35, Issue 3
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/current
Issue Focus: Physicians, Prescription Drugs, ACOs & More

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Global Health
Evaluation Of A Maternal Health Program In Uganda And Zambia Finds Mixed Results On Quality Of Care And Satisfaction
Margaret E. Kruk, Daniel Vail, Katherine Austin-Evelyn, Lynn Atuyambe, Dana Greeson, Karen Ann Grépin, Simon P. S. Kibira, Mubiana Macwan’gi, Tsitsi B. Masvawure, Miriam Rabkin, Emma Sacks, Joseph Simbaya, and Sandro Galea
Health Aff March 2016 35:510-519; doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0902
Abstract
Saving Mothers, Giving Life is a multidonor program designed to reduce maternal mortality in Uganda and Zambia. We used a quasi-random research design to evaluate its effects on provider obstetric knowledge, clinical confidence, and job satisfaction, and on patients’ receipt of services, perceived quality, and satisfaction. Study participants were 1,267 health workers and 2,488 female patients. Providers’ knowledge was significantly higher in Ugandan and Zambian intervention districts than in comparison districts, and in Uganda there were similar positive differences for providers’ clinical confidence and job satisfaction. Patients in Ugandan intervention facilities were more likely to give high ratings for equipment availability, providers’ knowledge and communication skills, and care quality, among other factors, than patients in comparison facilities. There were fewer differences between Zambian intervention and comparison facilities. Country differences likely reflect differing intensity of program implementation and the more favorable geography of intervention districts in Uganda than in Zambia. National investments in the health system and provider training and the identification of intervention components most associated with improved performance will be required for scaling up and sustaining the program.

Health Research Policy and Systems
http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content
[Accessed 19 March 2016]

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Review
How to meet the demand for good quality renal dialysis as part of universal health coverage in resource-limited settings?
It is very challenging for resource-limited settings to introduce universal health coverage (UHC), particularly regarding the inclusion of high-cost renal dialysis as part of the UHC benefit package.
Yot Teerawattananon, Alia Luz, Songyot Pilasant, Suteenoot Tangsathitkulchai, Sarocha Chootipongchaivat, Nattha Tritasavit, Inthira Yamabhai and Sripen Tantivess
Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:21
Published on: 18 March 2016

Review
Evidence for Health I: Producing evidence for improving health and reducing inequities
In an ideal world, researchers and decision-makers would be involved from the outset in co-producing evidence, with local health needs assessments informing the research agenda and research evidence informing …
Anne Andermann, Tikki Pang, John N Newton, Adrian Davis and Ulysses Panisset
Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:18
Published on: 14 March 2016

Review
Evidence for Health II: Overcoming barriers to using evidence in policy and practice
Even the highest quality evidence will have little impact unless it is incorporated into decision-making for health. It is therefore critical to overcome the many barriers to using evidence in decision-making,…
Anne Andermann, Tikki Pang, John N. Newton, Adrian Davis and Ulysses Panisset
Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:17
Published on: 14 March 2016

Review
Evidence for Health III: Making evidence-informed decisions that integrate values and context
Making evidence-informed decisions with the aim of improving the health of individuals or populations can be facilitated by using a systematic approach. While a number of algorithms already exist,
Anne Andermann, Tikki Pang, John N Newton, Adrian Davis and Ulysses Panisset
Health Research Policy and Systems 2016 14:16
Published on: 14 March 2016