Partners In Health [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.pih.org/blog
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Jan 15, 2016
‘Dr. Moí’ Will See You Now
Moíses Mazariegos started working with PIH in Mexico as its first driver, but he does more than sit behind the wheel of a pickup truck. He’s a patient advocate, an adviser, a skilled negotiator, and a good friend to everyone he meets.
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Jan 14, 2016
On TB’s Trail in Liberia
PIH searches for tuberculosis patients in Monrovia, Liberia.
Save The Children [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.9357111/k.C14B/Press_Releases_2016/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp
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January 15, 2016
Over 12 Million Children Have Better Educational Opportunities Through Ikea Foundation, Save the Children and Unicef Partnership
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January 14, 2016
Pioneering Study Finds Poor Youth Can Save for Their Future
Fairfield, Conn— Led by an international development consortium that includes Save the Children, YouthSave has shown helping youth build savings can significantly increase their financial capability and may also improve other youth development outcomes, such as cognitive functioning, education, and health behaviors.
Through the project – the largest research experiment of its kind in the developing world – more than 130,000 young people, aged primarily 12-18 and half living under the poverty line, collectively saved more than $1 million over three years. In addition, approximately 44,000 youth received direct financial education, 48,000 individuals were reached through community-level events, and an estimated 660,000 were reached through mass media….
:: Key Findings from the YouthSave Project in Brief
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January 12, 2016
Food Crisis Update from Save the Children in Ethiopia
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Former Danish prime minister to run Save the Children International
Thomson Reuters Foundation | 13 January 2016
Denmark’s first female prime minister is to become the new head of Save the Children International, one of the world’s leading charities that works in some 120 nations, it announced on Thursday. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, a Social Democrat who led a Danish coalition government from 2011 to 2015, succeeds Jasmine Whitbread as chief executive of the umbrella charity organization, the London-based group said.
SOS-Kinderdorf International [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/about-sos/press/press-releases
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15.01.2016
SOS Children’s Villages enters besieged town of Madaya; UN chief calls deliberate starvation of the town a “war crime”
On Thursday 14 January, a four person team from SOS Children’s Villages gained access to Madaya, Syria, a town which has been under siege for months…
Tostan [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.tostan.org/latest-news
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January 11, 2016
Gambian Youth Caravan Advocate for Human Rights and Responsibilities
This group of over 300 young people proudly took part in the Annual Youth Caravan and Forum in the Gambia between December 25th and 31st. They trekked to six Fula villages to gather their peers and elders for an open discussion on the human rights and responsibilities of youth…
Women for Women International [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.womenforwomen.org/press-releases
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Press Release
Women for Women International Calls for Women’s Inclusion in Afghanistan Peace Talks
Women’s voices and contributions are critical for establishing lasting peace, organization’s leaders say.
Monday, January 11, 2016, Washington, DC – Afghan women negotiators must be included in all talks to negotiate a final peace agreement, Women for Women International said today, following international meetings to restart the Afghanistan peace process. During the talks between Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and the United States, no women were present in the Afghan delegation.
“Around the world, we see women make critical contributions to peace-building – they share unique perspectives of conflict and ensure negotiations address the issues feeding instability and violence. The fact is, peace processes simply work better when women are involved,” says WfWI CEO Jennifer L. Windsor. “In Afghanistan, women must have a meaningful role as active participants in the peace process to ensure their rights and the progress they have made over the past 15 years are protected.”
Since 2001, women have made tremendous progress in closing gender gaps in health, education, and political participation. Maternal mortality has declined by 75 percent,1 and nearly 3.3 million girls now attend school who would not have had the opportunity to do so under the Taliban regime.2 In April 2014, 2.4 million women voted in elections that resulted in 97 women elected to provincial councils,3 and women hold 28 percent of parliamentary seats.4
Yet this progress remains fragile. As the Taliban controls more territory now than at any time since 2001, women’s participation in peace talks is critical to ensure a comprehensive peace process that continues to protect women’s rights and equality.
“Women are more involved than ever before actively contributing to Afghanistan’s economy, politics, and society. This is their country and their future at stake in these peace talks,” says WfWI-Afghanistan Country Director Mandana Hendessi. “There is a real concern that marginalizing women from peace talks could have a far-reaching, negative impact for women at all socio-economic levels.”…
The Elders [to 16 January 2016]
http://theelders.org/news-media
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News 14 January 2016
What will be on the agenda for the next Secretary-General of the United Nations
Livestreamed from Sciences Po’s Youth & Leaders Summit 2016 in Paris on Monday 18 January, Martti Ahtisaari and Lakhdar Brahimi speak on The Elders’ call for UN reform the serious challenges facing the next Secretary-General.
Global Fund [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/
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12 January 2016
Challenges and Opportunities in 2016: Mark Dybul Looks Ahead
It is an exciting time in global health, and an extremely challenging one. Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund spoke about current trends.
:: What are the greatest challenges and opportunities in 2016?
The road ahead calls for new thinking, for practical solutions that serve people who are being left behind. In global health, we have to think about our work beyond the disease or development paradigms, and focus on the person. How do we find innovative ways to empower individuals? Connecting education and health, especially where it enables girls to become women with opportunity, is an area that needs more work.
Building resilient and sustainable systems for health is another. Making a health clinic accessible may mean hiring more health workers, or an innovative health insurance scheme, but it also can mean lifting stigma and discrimination. Whatever helps an individual remove barriers to health, especially for key populations.
We face very serious challenges. Achieving impact in the last decade was relatively easy because the need was so great – almost anything you did had impact. However, the next stage of ending the epidemics involves confronting social and cultural issues. Our investments have to be more focused, nuanced and interwoven. And we have to put human beings at the center of our response
Climate change and the refugee crisis are big challenges for the world to deal with. By building lasting health programs and systems that boost the capacity and resilience of a country’s health system and its people, the Global Fund mission can play its part in improving humanity in a way that is connected with other challenges.
:: What do you mean when you speak of the need to put human beings at the center of our response?
If a scientific or medical response to the three epidemics was enough to end them, our mission would be complete. We already have the tools to defeat HIV, TB and malaria, but the diseases are still with us. Putting human beings at the center of our response means going beyond the work we have already done. We have to work hard to reach key populations, expanding programs we have and finding new ways, too. We have to think about stigma and poverty, and how they are connected with epidemics.
Overall, we have to expand access to health care and education and economic empowerment – powerful tools for the prevention and treatment of HIV, TB and malaria.
Whether it’s a 14 year old girl in Lesotho or a migrant forestry worker in Myanmar, every human being should be empowered to make smart decisions about their health, not subjected to the lottery of infectious disease. Education is one avenue toward progress, and linking education, especially for girls, must be a priority.
The Global Fund has a strong record of putting human beings at the center of its approach, inspired by solidarity and compassion. Today, we can point to great results: the partnership has saved more than 17 million lives, through the end of 2014. Each life saved represents expanded opportunity and greater social justice for families and communities worldwide – it inspires even greater belief in the power of the human spirit and what we can achieve by working together.
:: What gives you hope about ending the epidemics?
Every time a health program assists a girl to make powerful, positive decision about her health, or prevents a mother from transmitting HIV to her baby, or protects a young child from malaria or a grown man from tuberculosis, we are adding to the momentum of human opportunity and progress. When girls are given the opportunity to stay in school, and make informed choices that allow them to grow into empowered women, it breeds human progress. Wherever I see that, it contributes to my hope and my confidence that we can get there. But there still is a tremendous amount of work to do, and it is going to take more commitment, and a commitment to news ways of thinking, to get us there.
ODI [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.odi.org/media
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Urbanisation: consequences and opportunities for the Netherlands’ Directorate-General for International Cooperation
Research reports and studies | January 2016 | Irina Mosel, Paula Lucci, Julian Doczi, Clare Cummings, Aditya Bahadur, David Walker, Lucy Scott, Hamish Nixon
This report examines the impacts of urbanisation on areas including water management, climate change and disaster risk reduction, gender, food security, emergency aid, and peace, security and conflict.
The urban-rural water interface: a preliminary study in Burkina Faso
Working and discussion papers | January 2016 | Peter Newborne; Josephine Tucker
An initial framing paper produced in partnership with WISE-UP that looks at water allocation in Ouagadougou, and how the government manages the issue of water allocation between rural and urban areas, especially in semi-arid regions.
10 things to know about progress in international development
Rresource | January 2016
Around the world, amazing progress is being made in human well-being, from health to poverty to education and more. Here we showcase 10 examples from Development Progress case studies.
Resilience Scan: July-September 2015
Research reports and studies | January 2016 | Aditya Bahadur, Thomas Tanner, Emma Lovell, Florence Pichon and Hani Morsi
This resilience scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the third quarter (July to September) of 2015.
Future directions of security and justice: context-relevant, flexible and transnational programming?
Research reports and studies | January 2016 | Lisa Denney and Pilar Domingo
This report identifies some emerging trends in security and justice and examines what these trends might mean for programme implementation.
Thinking and working with political settlements
Briefing papers | January 2016 | Tim Kelsall
This briefing offers advice to development practitioners on the use of Political Settlements Analysis, while drawing links between PSA and Adaptive Development approaches.
Aga Khan Foundation [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.akdn.org/pr.asp
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Master Jury Announced for 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
06 January 2016 – The members of the 2016 Master Jury of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced on 6 January 2016. The Jury, which independently selects the recipients of the US$ 1 million Award, will select a shortlist from hundreds of nominated projects and, after rigorous on-site inspection of the shortlisted projects, select the winners.
GHIT Fund [to 16 January 2016]
https://www.ghitfund.org/
GHIT was set up in 2012 with the aim of developing new tools to tackle infectious diseases that devastate the world’s poorest people. Other funders include six Japanese pharmaceutical companies, the Japanese Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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2015.12.17
Event Report: International Conference on Universal Health Coverage in the New Development Era
The Government of Japan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) co-hosted the International Conference on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the New Development Era: Toward Building Resilient and Sustainable Health Systems on December 16, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. The conference explored the role of the UHC in the transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in enhancing preparedness and responses to health crises based on lessons learned from the recent Ebola crisis. Experts in global health, such as leaders from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Fund, World Bank Group, and World Health Organization participated…
Grameen Foundation [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.grameenfoundation.org/news-events/press-room
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Jan 15, 2016, 07:00 ET
Nationwide launch of Mobile Health Program in rural India signals new era of mHealth for emerging economies
Today, the Government of India launched a nationwide mobile health program designed to train community health workers and to directly reach millions of women within three years. The program is powered by MOTECH, a robust yet simple-to-use mobile health (mHealth) technology developed by Grameen…
IKEA Foundation [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.ikeafoundation.org/news/
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January 15, 2016
How soft toys are helping 12 million dreams come true
…More than 12 million children in Africa, Asia and Europe have better schools, teachers and learning materials, thanks to a successful 13-year partnership between the IKEA Foundation, Save the Children and UNICEF…
MacArthur Foundation [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.macfound.org/
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Press release
MacArthur Awards 19 Documentary Film Grants
Published January 13, 2016
MacArthur, a supporter of social-issue film and digital media projects for more than three decades, today announced 19 grants totaling nearly $2.5 million for documentary and interactive projects.
The new grants represent MacArthur’s largest single year investment in documentaries, and they bring the total number of documentary films supported by the Foundation since 1985 to more than 300…
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Press release
MacArthur Announces Performances, Discussion to Celebrate 35 Years of Iconic Fellowship Program
Published January 11, 2016
MacArthur today announced a year-long series of performances, discussions, and other events to celebrate the 35th anniversary of its iconic MacArthur Fellows Program in 2016.
The Foundation will collaborate with a diverse set of partners for the programming, including Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival, Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and New York City’s 92nd Street Y. Most of the events will be open to the public for free or at low cost. Video of many events will be made available online…
Open Society Foundation [to 16 January 2016]
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/issues/media-information
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Two Milestones Put Romani Cultural Discourse in the Hands of Roma Themselves
January 15, 2016 by Cayetano Fernandez
For the Roma movement in Europe, 2015 was a pivotal year. It was the year Roma intellectuals and activists moved beyond “fixes” to employment, housing, health, and access to education, and embraced a more holistic view of the Roma situation. We took a wider look at majority societies and raised the crucial question: What is wrong with European democracies that they exclude more than 12 million of their citizens at different levels? From segregating Roma students in special schools to forcibly sterilizing Roma women, how can Europe keep blaming Roma for their disadvantaged situation?
This critical approach to Roma inclusion took concrete form last year in two major milestones: the growth of a Romani studies summer session at the Central European University in Budapest, and the establishment of a European Roma Institute to honor Roma contributions to society. Both were landmark advances in letting Roma define who Roma are…
David and Lucile Packard Foundation [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.packard.org/news/
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Packard Foundation Names Dr. Stephen H. Lockhart to its Board of Trustees
January 11, 2016
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Stephen H. Lockhart, M.D., PhD., has joined its Board of Trustees. Dr. Lockhart is Chief Medical Officer for Sutter Health, a not for profit system of hospitals, physician organizations and research institutions in Northern California…
Pew Charitable Trusts [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/press-releases
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Press Release
Pew Analysis Shows Access to Workplace Retirement Plans Varies Widely Across States
January 13, 2016
WASHINGTON—Wide differences in access to and participation in employer-based retirement plans exist across states, with variations by employer size and industry type as well as by workers’ income, age, education, race and ethnicity, according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts…
Report link: Who’s In, Who’s Out: A Look at Access to Employer-Based Retirement Plans and Participation in the States
Rockefeller Foundation [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/newsroom
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Encourage Capital Releases Report on Investment Strategies for Sustainable Fisheries in Brazil, Chile and The Philippines
Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and The Rockefeller Foundation
January 14, 2016 NEW YORK – Each year, more than $50 billion of economic value is lost due to poor fisheries management, depleting the oceans and affecting global seafood production. Today, Encourage Capital released the second installment of its comprehensive investment report, analyzing how investors can deploy capital in efforts to protect and restore global fisheries.
The report, “Investing for Sustainable Global Fisheries,” delivers a series of six blueprints about investments in fisheries in Brazil, Chile and the Philippines, which account for 7% of the global fish supply. The strategies are based on real-life examples and are available free of charge at investinvibrantoceans.org.
“More than 1 billion people globally rely on seafood as their primary source of protein, but 40% of fisheries are considered to be overexploited or collapsed,” said Jason Scott, Co-Managing Partner at Encourage Capital. “Encourage Capital’s Investment Blueprints demonstrate that there are ways to earn real profits through sustainable seafood investing strategies that improve seafood yield, enhance supply chain efficiency, and reduce supply volatility.”..
Report [42 pages]: http://encouragecapital.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Executive_Summary_FINAL_1-11-16.pdf
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Millennial Trains Project Offers Platform for Millennial Innovators to Explore New Frontiers with Support from The Rockefeller Foundation
January 11, 2016 NEW YORK—Today, the Millennial Trains Project announced that The Rockefeller Foundation is coming on board as a major supporter of its August 2016 trans-continental train journeys for young innovators, which will support the development of next-generation, entrepreneurial leaders who share the Foundation’s desire to improve resilience and inclusivity in communities across America….
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.rwjf.org/en/about-rwjf/newsroom/news-releases.html
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Warning Labels on Sweetened Drinks Deter Consumption
Thu Jan 14 2016
Health warning labels may increase parents’ understanding that sugar-sweetened beverages increase their child’s risk of weight gain, heart disease, and diabetes—and motivate them to buy fewer sugary drinks.
Wellcome Trust [to 16 January 2016]
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2016/index.htm
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Tribute to award-winning scientist Professor Glyn Humphreys
The news of the sudden death yesterday of Professor Glyn Humphreys, Watts Chair of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, has saddened many friends and colleagues at the Wellcome Trust.
15 January 2016.
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Alternatives to antibiotics not a short-term solution to drug-resistant infections
A handful of alternatives to antibiotics – such as treatments and preventative measures based on live microorganisms or ‘probiotics’ – have the potential to combat bacterial infections in the next decade, but they are unlikely to replace traditional antibiotics.
13 January 2016
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£3bn a year needed to prepare the world for future pandemics
An investment of less than 50p per year for every person on the planet (£3bn/$4.5bn total) would make the world significantly more resilient to the threat of infectious disease, according to a group of international experts convened in the wake of the Ebola crisis.
13 January 2016
BMC Health Services Research
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmchealthservres/content
(Accessed 16 January 2016)
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Research article
Perspectives and experiences of new migrants on health screening in Sweden
In Sweden, migrants from countries considered to have a high burden of certain infectious diseases are offered health screening to prevent the spread of these diseases, but also identify their health needs.
Faustine Kyungu Nkulu Kalengayi, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Annika Nordstrand, Clas Ahlm and Beth Maina Ahlberg
BMC Health Services Research 2016 16:14
Published on: 15 January 2016
