Presentation given by Ingrid Palmary at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research and African Research Universities Alliance conference in October 2017.
This document is the annual report of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation for 2012. It provides an overview of the Foundation's grants and activities that year across its three program areas: promoting international arts engagement, protecting reproductive rights, and improving the performance of public institutions in New York. A total of $4.78 million was appropriated to 53 grantees. The report describes the goals and strategies within each program area, and provides details on several specific grants made to organizations such as Art21, Bang on a Can, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Africa c review meeting on beijing+20 at uneca for africa in addis ababa, eth...Dr Lendy Spires
The document summarizes a meeting of 190 civil society organizations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss progress on implementing the Beijing Platform for Action from the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women. The meeting aimed to review progress made in the past 20 years, validate a draft CSO shadow report, prepare an advocacy position statement, and develop strategies for financing sustainable development and advocating for women's rights. Participants discussed ensuring women's rights and gender equality are integrated into post-2015 development and financing for development processes from a feminist perspective.
Human Rights-based and Gender Sensitive DevelopmentUNDP Eurasia
Presentation presented by Olesea Cruc, UNDP Moldova and Victoria Cujba, State Chancellery, Government of Moldova at Global Human Rights Community of Practice Meeting, November - December 2011
This document provides information about the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, including its mission to promote volunteerism for peace and development worldwide. It details how UNV fulfills its mandate by advocating for volunteer recognition, integrating volunteerism into development programs, and mobilizing volunteers. It also provides contact information for the UNV programme in Mongolia and answers frequently asked questions about becoming a UN Volunteer, such as eligibility requirements, assignment locations, and benefits.
AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human Mobility in Africa.
Through the publication of original research, policy discussions and evidence research papers AHMR provides a comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis of contemporaneous trends, migration patterns and some of the most important migration-related issues.
The document summarizes the UN-HABITAT Youth Fund, which provides grants of up to $5,000 or $25,000 to support youth-led urban development projects. The fund aims to empower youth, alleviate poverty, support innovative ideas, and promote training and entrepreneurship. It has an annual budget of $1 million. The application deadline is April 15, 2010. Projects must involve youth ages 15-32 and be led by registered non-profit organizations in cities with over 10,000 inhabitants.
NATO has made progress in increasing gender diversity but more work remains. Between 2002 and 2014, NATO increased the percentage of female leaders from 11% to 22% and the percentage of women in middle management from 33% to 37%. NATO's 2012-2014 Diversity Action Plan aims to further improve gender balance through initiatives like a women's professional network, identifying and removing barriers to women, and analyzing recruitment practices. Achieving gender diversity in an international organization like NATO is challenging and requires sustained individual and collective efforts.
This document is the annual report of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation for 2012. It provides an overview of the Foundation's grants and activities that year across its three program areas: promoting international arts engagement, protecting reproductive rights, and improving the performance of public institutions in New York. A total of $4.78 million was appropriated to 53 grantees. The report describes the goals and strategies within each program area, and provides details on several specific grants made to organizations such as Art21, Bang on a Can, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Africa c review meeting on beijing+20 at uneca for africa in addis ababa, eth...Dr Lendy Spires
The document summarizes a meeting of 190 civil society organizations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss progress on implementing the Beijing Platform for Action from the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women. The meeting aimed to review progress made in the past 20 years, validate a draft CSO shadow report, prepare an advocacy position statement, and develop strategies for financing sustainable development and advocating for women's rights. Participants discussed ensuring women's rights and gender equality are integrated into post-2015 development and financing for development processes from a feminist perspective.
Human Rights-based and Gender Sensitive DevelopmentUNDP Eurasia
Presentation presented by Olesea Cruc, UNDP Moldova and Victoria Cujba, State Chancellery, Government of Moldova at Global Human Rights Community of Practice Meeting, November - December 2011
This document provides information about the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, including its mission to promote volunteerism for peace and development worldwide. It details how UNV fulfills its mandate by advocating for volunteer recognition, integrating volunteerism into development programs, and mobilizing volunteers. It also provides contact information for the UNV programme in Mongolia and answers frequently asked questions about becoming a UN Volunteer, such as eligibility requirements, assignment locations, and benefits.
AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human Mobility in Africa.
Through the publication of original research, policy discussions and evidence research papers AHMR provides a comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis of contemporaneous trends, migration patterns and some of the most important migration-related issues.
The document summarizes the UN-HABITAT Youth Fund, which provides grants of up to $5,000 or $25,000 to support youth-led urban development projects. The fund aims to empower youth, alleviate poverty, support innovative ideas, and promote training and entrepreneurship. It has an annual budget of $1 million. The application deadline is April 15, 2010. Projects must involve youth ages 15-32 and be led by registered non-profit organizations in cities with over 10,000 inhabitants.
NATO has made progress in increasing gender diversity but more work remains. Between 2002 and 2014, NATO increased the percentage of female leaders from 11% to 22% and the percentage of women in middle management from 33% to 37%. NATO's 2012-2014 Diversity Action Plan aims to further improve gender balance through initiatives like a women's professional network, identifying and removing barriers to women, and analyzing recruitment practices. Achieving gender diversity in an international organization like NATO is challenging and requires sustained individual and collective efforts.
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Development Aid Support/Knowledge For Development Without Borders (KFDWB)Amouzou Bedi
Knowledge for Development Without Borders (KFDWB) is an NGO, based in Vienna, Austria, whose mission is to identify current development issues and development best practices on the ground and to make this knowledge available to development organisations and local and national responsible bodies in order to highlight and alleviate the problems at a community level.
Please complete the form below to join us as a volunteer. A volunteer is a person who can let us know of the situation on the ground. We will work directly with you and help solve the problems that you or your community are facing. We do this by interfacing on your behalf with local governments and international aid organisations about your situation and your request for financial and technical support.
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Setting up an International Innovation IncubatorMrsAlways RigHt
A proposal for an international innovation incubator school for high school age students. Leveraging any device to bring access to the latest in learning with experience based projects.
Announcement of Innovation for Change's Global Civic Innovation Challenge Win...Kara Andrade
This document summarizes the results of Innovation for Change's 2019 Civic Innovation Challenge. Seven proposals were selected to be awarded funding. The document provides brief descriptions of each selected proposal. It then outlines the multi-stage evaluation process, which included over 50 applications being scored by 25 judges based on criteria like feasibility and impact. The top 7 highest scoring proposals that met the average threshold were selected to receive a total of $70,000 in funding. Feedback from judges and an evaluation survey are being used to assess the challenge process.
“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to m...Amouzou Bedi
KFDWB’s mission is to provide worldwide Development Aid Support to development agencies, organizations, local governments, NGOs public and private institutions by helping local communities know and understand which human development challenges and/or frustrations they are facing each day, and make these information and knowledge universally accessible via a central database and useful to development organizations and local and national responsible bodies in order to highlight and alleviate the problems at a community level to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in each corner of the globe.
Win-Win Partnership? China, Southern Africa and the Extractive IndustriesDr Lendy Spires
This document provides an overview and table of contents for a book on China's involvement in Africa's extractive industries in Southern Africa. The summary is as follows:
1. The book is published by Southern Africa Resource Watch and examines China's role in Africa's extractive industries across several Southern African countries, analyzing the nature of Sino-African relations, development impacts, and challenges.
2. It contains chapters on individual country case studies of Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, South Africa, DRC, and Zimbabwe, as well as thematic chapters on partnership models, development impacts, corporate social responsibility, and policy recommendations.
3. The book aims to provide a nuanced perspective on
2016 December Tools for Change CGI NewsletterDr. Chris Stout
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Presentation wsis forum 2015 Making the Link - C10 for Sustainable DevelopmentAmouzou Bedi
K4DWB aims to address development issues through connecting relevant organizations and communities via a centralized global database. The database would allow local volunteers to report development problems and best practices in their communities. Organizations could then access this information to identify useful development solutions. K4DWB's goal is to make development goals and knowledge universally accessible in order to empower local communities and support evidence-based decision making.
Roger Hastrich is a specialist human services consultant who has recently completed several projects related to supporting vulnerable populations. These projects include: (1) designing a support service for family members of those in the legal system in Victoria; (2) mapping the health and wellbeing issues facing refugees and asylum seekers; and (3) analyzing the stop-start nature of social and affordable housing development. Hastrich also recently worked on improving communication between home care providers and their workers to better monitor client wellbeing.
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This document provides an overview of the concepts of citizenship and gender in development. It discusses how citizenship refers to both membership in a group or community that confers rights and responsibilities, as well as the practice of exercising those rights. While traditional citizenship theory is based on universal individual rights, feminists and others have critiqued this for hiding inequalities. Reframing citizenship from a gender perspective means challenging the public/private divide that excludes issues like domestic violence and childcare, promoting women's agency, and addressing exclusion and disadvantage through policies like affirmative action and needs-based assessments. The report provides case studies that demonstrate these approaches.
This document provides an overview of citizenship and gender in the context of development. It discusses how citizenship refers to both membership in a group or community that confers rights and responsibilities, as well as the practice of exercising those rights. While traditional citizenship theory is based on universal individual rights, feminists and others have critiqued this for hiding inequalities. Reframing citizenship from a gender perspective means challenging the public/private divide that excludes issues like domestic violence and childcare, promoting women's agency, and addressing exclusion and disadvantage through policies like affirmative action and needs-based assessments. The report examines case studies that demonstrate these approaches.
AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human Mobility in Africa. Through the publication of original research, policy discussions and evidence research papers AHMR provides a comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis of contemporaneous trends, migration patterns and some of the most important migration-related issues.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research activities on social protection.
VR Report_Maintaining Democratic Space in the Public SphereGehan Gunatilleke
This document summarizes the work and goals of two organizations - Verité Research and the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR).
Verité Research aims to be a leader in Asia in providing information and analysis for negotiations and policymaking, while also promoting social development through dialogue and education. The organization conducts research and provides services in areas like economics, sociology, politics, law and media.
IWPR is an independent nonprofit that works with media and civil society to promote positive change in conflict zones, closed societies, and countries in transition. It works on the ground in over 30 challenging environments, with offices in the US, Netherlands and London. IWPR aims to strengthen local independent voices to drive democratic
This newsletter document provides information on various opportunities including job openings, funding opportunities, conferences, and training courses. Some of the key opportunities mentioned include a Development Coordinator position with the Salam Institute for Peace and Justice, a Young African Research Fellowship in the Democratic Republic of Congo with Search for Common Ground, and multiple training courses covering topics such as integrated water management, panel data analysis, and crisis preparation and management. Voters are also requested to rate an organization on a nonprofit website.
Navigating the U.S Foundation Landscape: How U.S. and International Nonprofit...Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi
Presented by Catalina Spinel, Program Manager of the New York Learning Center and Inga Ingulfsen, Research Manager, Global Partnerships at Candid, during Liz Ngonzi Transforms Webinar on May 6th, 2020
Webinar Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPukHGYRHE&feature=youtu.be&t=68
Violeta Manoukian is an experienced consultant specializing in community development, gender analysis, poverty reduction strategies, and participatory monitoring and evaluation. She has over 20 years of experience working in over 20 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Her experience includes advising governments on developing poverty reduction strategies, conducting social and gender assessments, and designing and implementing participatory appraisal programs. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and French.
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Development Aid Support/Knowledge For Development Without Borders (KFDWB)Amouzou Bedi
Knowledge for Development Without Borders (KFDWB) is an NGO, based in Vienna, Austria, whose mission is to identify current development issues and development best practices on the ground and to make this knowledge available to development organisations and local and national responsible bodies in order to highlight and alleviate the problems at a community level.
Please complete the form below to join us as a volunteer. A volunteer is a person who can let us know of the situation on the ground. We will work directly with you and help solve the problems that you or your community are facing. We do this by interfacing on your behalf with local governments and international aid organisations about your situation and your request for financial and technical support.
http://www.developmentaidsupport.org/membership-form/
Setting up an International Innovation IncubatorMrsAlways RigHt
A proposal for an international innovation incubator school for high school age students. Leveraging any device to bring access to the latest in learning with experience based projects.
Announcement of Innovation for Change's Global Civic Innovation Challenge Win...Kara Andrade
This document summarizes the results of Innovation for Change's 2019 Civic Innovation Challenge. Seven proposals were selected to be awarded funding. The document provides brief descriptions of each selected proposal. It then outlines the multi-stage evaluation process, which included over 50 applications being scored by 25 judges based on criteria like feasibility and impact. The top 7 highest scoring proposals that met the average threshold were selected to receive a total of $70,000 in funding. Feedback from judges and an evaluation survey are being used to assess the challenge process.
“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to m...Amouzou Bedi
KFDWB’s mission is to provide worldwide Development Aid Support to development agencies, organizations, local governments, NGOs public and private institutions by helping local communities know and understand which human development challenges and/or frustrations they are facing each day, and make these information and knowledge universally accessible via a central database and useful to development organizations and local and national responsible bodies in order to highlight and alleviate the problems at a community level to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the forthcoming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in each corner of the globe.
Win-Win Partnership? China, Southern Africa and the Extractive IndustriesDr Lendy Spires
This document provides an overview and table of contents for a book on China's involvement in Africa's extractive industries in Southern Africa. The summary is as follows:
1. The book is published by Southern Africa Resource Watch and examines China's role in Africa's extractive industries across several Southern African countries, analyzing the nature of Sino-African relations, development impacts, and challenges.
2. It contains chapters on individual country case studies of Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, South Africa, DRC, and Zimbabwe, as well as thematic chapters on partnership models, development impacts, corporate social responsibility, and policy recommendations.
3. The book aims to provide a nuanced perspective on
2016 December Tools for Change CGI NewsletterDr. Chris Stout
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Presentation wsis forum 2015 Making the Link - C10 for Sustainable DevelopmentAmouzou Bedi
K4DWB aims to address development issues through connecting relevant organizations and communities via a centralized global database. The database would allow local volunteers to report development problems and best practices in their communities. Organizations could then access this information to identify useful development solutions. K4DWB's goal is to make development goals and knowledge universally accessible in order to empower local communities and support evidence-based decision making.
Roger Hastrich is a specialist human services consultant who has recently completed several projects related to supporting vulnerable populations. These projects include: (1) designing a support service for family members of those in the legal system in Victoria; (2) mapping the health and wellbeing issues facing refugees and asylum seekers; and (3) analyzing the stop-start nature of social and affordable housing development. Hastrich also recently worked on improving communication between home care providers and their workers to better monitor client wellbeing.
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This document provides an overview of the concepts of citizenship and gender in development. It discusses how citizenship refers to both membership in a group or community that confers rights and responsibilities, as well as the practice of exercising those rights. While traditional citizenship theory is based on universal individual rights, feminists and others have critiqued this for hiding inequalities. Reframing citizenship from a gender perspective means challenging the public/private divide that excludes issues like domestic violence and childcare, promoting women's agency, and addressing exclusion and disadvantage through policies like affirmative action and needs-based assessments. The report provides case studies that demonstrate these approaches.
This document provides an overview of citizenship and gender in the context of development. It discusses how citizenship refers to both membership in a group or community that confers rights and responsibilities, as well as the practice of exercising those rights. While traditional citizenship theory is based on universal individual rights, feminists and others have critiqued this for hiding inequalities. Reframing citizenship from a gender perspective means challenging the public/private divide that excludes issues like domestic violence and childcare, promoting women's agency, and addressing exclusion and disadvantage through policies like affirmative action and needs-based assessments. The report examines case studies that demonstrate these approaches.
AHMR is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects (socio-economic, political, legislative and developmental) of Human Mobility in Africa. Through the publication of original research, policy discussions and evidence research papers AHMR provides a comprehensive forum devoted exclusively to the analysis of contemporaneous trends, migration patterns and some of the most important migration-related issues.
As the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti, we conduct research to inform policymaking and implementation. This project brief summarizes our research activities on social protection.
VR Report_Maintaining Democratic Space in the Public SphereGehan Gunatilleke
This document summarizes the work and goals of two organizations - Verité Research and the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR).
Verité Research aims to be a leader in Asia in providing information and analysis for negotiations and policymaking, while also promoting social development through dialogue and education. The organization conducts research and provides services in areas like economics, sociology, politics, law and media.
IWPR is an independent nonprofit that works with media and civil society to promote positive change in conflict zones, closed societies, and countries in transition. It works on the ground in over 30 challenging environments, with offices in the US, Netherlands and London. IWPR aims to strengthen local independent voices to drive democratic
This newsletter document provides information on various opportunities including job openings, funding opportunities, conferences, and training courses. Some of the key opportunities mentioned include a Development Coordinator position with the Salam Institute for Peace and Justice, a Young African Research Fellowship in the Democratic Republic of Congo with Search for Common Ground, and multiple training courses covering topics such as integrated water management, panel data analysis, and crisis preparation and management. Voters are also requested to rate an organization on a nonprofit website.
Navigating the U.S Foundation Landscape: How U.S. and International Nonprofit...Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi
Presented by Catalina Spinel, Program Manager of the New York Learning Center and Inga Ingulfsen, Research Manager, Global Partnerships at Candid, during Liz Ngonzi Transforms Webinar on May 6th, 2020
Webinar Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPukHGYRHE&feature=youtu.be&t=68
Violeta Manoukian is an experienced consultant specializing in community development, gender analysis, poverty reduction strategies, and participatory monitoring and evaluation. She has over 20 years of experience working in over 20 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Her experience includes advising governments on developing poverty reduction strategies, conducting social and gender assessments, and designing and implementing participatory appraisal programs. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and French.
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Presentation given at the ‘Migration and mobility – new frontiers for research and policy’ conference hosted by UNU WIDER and the African Research Universities Alliance in 2017.
This document discusses differing views on child labour and proposes more nuanced policies. While child labour is often seen as inherently harmful, it also provides economic and social benefits for children in some contexts. Strict age limits and definitions of child labour may push children into more dangerous, invisible work and fail to protect working children. Effective policies should focus on enforcing children's rights as workers, protecting them from exploitation based on work conditions rather than age alone, and enabling education through improving quality and reducing costs.
This document summarizes a paper on independent child migration and education in sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that independent child migrants have agency in their migration decisions and migration is not always detrimental to their education. Some migrate for better educational opportunities or to earn money to finance their education. While work can hinder schooling, some children are able to access education at their destination, such as through the help of employers. The paper calls for policies that recognize independent child migrants' unique situations and needs, such as educational support for those already in school.
The document discusses how remittances impact the capacity of Bangladeshi youth to aspire by exploring how remittances influence education, occupation, and migration aspirations, finding that while remittances increase opportunities, norms strongly circumscribe aspirations, especially for females. It calls for programs to help youth leverage remittances for skills and mainstreaming female participation in development.
Footprints of Agency and Space for Self-assertion: Adolescent Girls’ Migratio...Migrating out of Poverty
The document discusses adolescent girls' migration in Bangladesh. It finds that while poverty is a main driver, the decision to migrate is complex, with girls claiming some ownership over the choice. Migration allows for personal growth and more control over life trajectories for some. Increased time spent in cities can open up spaces for self-assertion, though vulnerabilities remain for new migrants with little support. The document calls for interventions to address vulnerabilities, such as safe spaces, challenging gender norms, and improving migrants' access to services.
1) Taiwan relies heavily on migrant labor, with over 600,000 migrant workers as of 2016, mainly from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
2) Female migrant workers outnumber male migrant workers and most female migrants work as caretakers and domestic helpers.
3) Civil society groups have petitioned the Taiwanese government to pass a Domestic Workers Protection Act to better protect the rights of migrant domestic workers, but the bill remains stalled in the legislative process.
Adults-in-the-making: Intergenerational impact of parental migration on youn...Migrating out of Poverty
This document discusses a study on the intergenerational impacts of parental migration on the aspirational capacity of young Indonesian women. It interviews 29 women aged 15-24 in Ponorogo, East Java. One participant, Sari, discussed reworking her definition of success to prioritize supporting her family through potential overseas domestic work, rather than solely through education. The study finds that parental migration and remittances shape children's educational and career aspirations by influencing what opportunities they see as available or realistic. It calls for policies to support current migrants' access to education and protect worker rights.
This document summarizes Katharina Bamberg's research on the agency of refugee women fleeing to Germany. The research aims to examine refugee women's narratives of their journeys to Germany in order to understand how they exercised agency before, during, and after fleeing. Bamberg conducted interviews with 13 refugee/asylum seeking women and analyzed them using an interpretative phenomenological approach. The findings show that women expressed agency in varied individual ways and that the ability to exercise agency changed depending on their circumstances in different stages of flight. Family considerations and gendered access to mobility also influenced women's agency.
No choice or no chance? Decision-making and narratives of migration among Eri...Migrating out of Poverty
This document summarizes research on the migration experiences of adolescent girls from Eritrea and Ethiopia living in Khartoum, Sudan. Through qualitative interviews and surveys with 48 Eritrean and 16 Ethiopian girls, the research found that the girls made independent decisions to migrate for reasons beyond exploitation, including poverty, family circumstances like parental death, and aspirations for greater freedom and opportunity. While gender norms and constraints still impacted their agency, the girls demonstrated "thin agency" in making choices to improve their lives rather than viewing themselves solely as victims. The research highlights the need for policies that recognize girls' decision-making capacities and provide support services and livelihood options in both origin and destination countries.
The document discusses the sedentarization of the Beni Amer tribe in eastern Sudan. Conflict and violence caused them to lose their pastoral lands and cattle, forcing them to settle in cities like Kassala to survive. This transition was difficult as it required adjusting to urban life, education systems, and cash-based economies. While cities provided access to services, living costs are high and many struggle financially. Some consider emigrating to Europe in search of better opportunities, but the journey is dangerous as some get trapped by human traffickers. Overall the document examines the factors forcing this tribe's sedentarization and the challenges of adapting to urban life.
Migration as coping strategy for natural shock recovery: Evidence from Hurric...Migrating out of Poverty
This document summarizes research on the use of migration as a coping strategy for households affected by Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua in 1998. The research finds: (1) Exposure to high rainfall levels from the hurricane only increased the probability of migration abroad for members of agricultural households; (2) International migration to the US and Canada was preferred over regional migration when households had the assets to cover migration costs; and (3) Remittance flows from abroad were an effective long-term recovery strategy, particularly for improving the asset base of agricultural households.
Social networks, dreams and risks: Ethiopian irregular migrants into South Af...Migrating out of Poverty
The document summarizes research on irregular Ethiopian migrants to South Africa. It finds that financial and material success stories shared through social media and wedding videos stimulate migration dreams in Ethiopia despite risks. Interviews revealed dangerous smuggling journeys and poor treatment in South Africa due to xenophobia. While technology connects migrants to home, physical separation remains. The research implies migration will continue due to pulls and pushes despite risks, and cracking down on smugglers may worsen the situation rather than addressing root causes. Managing dreams and expanding legal migration options could help address the issue.
Sub-Saharan migrants’ life circumstances under the new Moroccan migration po...Migrating out of Poverty
The document summarizes a study on the life circumstances of sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco under the country's new 2013 migration policy. Key findings of the study include:
1) Migrants live with extreme vulnerability and in precarious conditions, often begging in the streets, living in overcrowded rooms without basic amenities.
2) While the 2013 policy aimed to improve migrants' rights, in reality migrants still lack formal job opportunities and access to healthcare, education, and face exploitation and racism.
3) Migrants depend heavily on social networks and NGO assistance to access services and support due to lack of protection from authorities. Many remain in illegality, invisibility, and neglect.
This document discusses precarious employment in the UK and efforts to address it through the Immigration Act of 2016. It analyzes provisions in the Act relating to illegal working offenses, restricted access to services, and labor market enforcement. It also examines ensuring economic security for migrant workers, including securing back pay and minimum wages as well as access to redress mechanisms. Finally, it calls for reducing precarity and upholding migrant workers' right to non-exploitative work through cooperation between enforcement bodies and raising awareness.
Migration as a route out of poverty in Zimbabwe: Remittance behaviour and Gender. Presentation by Julie Litchfield for British Council International Women's Day March 2016
Labour Migration and Development: Implementing the Sustainable Development Go...Migrating out of Poverty
This presentation examines the role of migration in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), the importance of internal migration, remittances and the recognised seasonal employer (RSE) scheme.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
Travis Hills' Endeavors in Minnesota: Fostering Environmental and Economic Pr...Travis Hills MN
Travis Hills of Minnesota developed a method to convert waste into high-value dry fertilizer, significantly enriching soil quality. By providing farmers with a valuable resource derived from waste, Travis Hills helps enhance farm profitability while promoting environmental stewardship. Travis Hills' sustainable practices lead to cost savings and increased revenue for farmers by improving resource efficiency and reducing waste.
Current Ms word generated power point presentation covers major details about the micronuclei test. It's significance and assays to conduct it. It is used to detect the micronuclei formation inside the cells of nearly every multicellular organism. It's formation takes place during chromosomal sepration at metaphase.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
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Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
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among stars.
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the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
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the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
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and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
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How unpopular policies are made: Policy making in South Africa, Bangladesh and Singapore
1. How unpopular policies are made:
policy making in South Africa,
Bangladesh and Singapore
I Palmary
With
Thea De Gruchy, Ashraf Ali and Brenda Yeoh
Presentation to UN-Wider conference
5 October 2017
Ingrid.palmary@wits.ac.za
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
2. Background to Migrating out of
Poverty
Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme
Consortium focuses on the relationship between
internal and regional migration and poverty in
Africa and Asia. It is funded by the UK’s
Department for International Development and
coordinated out of the University of Sussex.
www.migratingoutofpoverty.dfid.gov.uk
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
3. Dilemmas of policy change in the
global South
• Why and how does policy change?
• Northern based theories don’t quit fit
– Presumptions of influence not evidence based
(knowledge-oriented and problem-oriented
assumptions)
– Resource poverty, institutional weakness, politicised
policy contexts (Vanyoro 2015).
• Protectivemigrationpolicies are largely
unpopular
• But strong demand to see research uptake into
policy
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
4. Methods (a rough sketch)
• Qualitative using process tracing
• Stakeholder mapping
• Document analysis (varied)
• Key informant interviews
• Limitations: recall bias, access
• All 3 case studies tested a combination of 3-Is
framework and ACF
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
5. Background to the case studies
Bangladesh
• Domestic Workers Protection and Welfare Policy
(DWPWP) (Refugee and Migratory Movements
Research Unit, University of Dhaka)
• Regulates and protects domestic workers
excluded from the labour Act
• Female and migrant workforce
• Clear coalitions (Sabatier, 2014).
• Shaped by human rights debates, international
conventions
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
6. Singapore
• Mandatory day off policy for migrant domestic
workers (Asia Research institute, National
University of Singapore)
• Ageing population, high formal employment
• Exclusion of MDW from Employment Act
• Strong state but also activism, international
reputation and better conditions for MDW in
other countries
______________________________________________________________________________
African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
7. South Africa
• Trafficking in Persons Act (African Centre for
Migration & Society, University of the
Witwatersrand)
– 2 clear coalitions
– Also international influences (NGOs and
conventions
– Shaky evidence and weak connection between
research and policy
– High popular and political commitment
______________________________________________________________________________
African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
8. Conceptualising policy change
• Early focus was on networksor institutions
• Assumed rationality
• Sabatier, Jenkins –Smith and Muller share
“The goal of establishing the importanceof the dynamics
of the social constructionof reality in the shaping of
historicallyspecific and socially legitimateframes and
practices” (Surel, 2000: 495).
• 3-Is+N was most relevant adding from ACF and Risse
(1999)
• Most still assume too great a degree of evidence based
policy making
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
9. Findings: 6 factors impacting policy
change
1. The nature of the policy being made
– Protective, vulnerable groups
– Nevertheless unpopular
– Gendered and sometimes “private”
– Question about whether regulation was
appropriate
– High public interest
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
10. Findings: 6 factors impacting policy
change
2. Who is the policy for?
– Poor, migrant, women
– Emphasis on morality and creation of moral panics
– Unaffected by international or internal migration
– Economic costs and benefits and connection to
skilled / unskilled movement
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
11. Findings: 6 factors impacting policy
change
3. Who are the role players?
– International actors
• Long-term local activism with international activism as
trigger
• International reputation matters
• Conventions seem to matter less (didn’t speed up
policy development)
– Which women?
• Affected women were not advocates
• Impacted on the advocacy messages
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
12. Findings: 6 factors impacting policy
change
3. Who are the role players cont….
– Coalitions
• Were formed in all cases
• Lacked expertise on policy drafting
– Civil servants
• Own investments
• Invisible force
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
13. Findings: 6 factors impacting policy
change
4. The positions taken
– Moral / ethical with support from legal / human
rights discourse
– Those against emphasised feasibility, expense
– Concessions are inevitable
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
14. Findings: 6 factors impacting policy
change
5. Contestations over knowledge
– Problematic use of research
– Focus was on abuses
– Loose understanding of evidence
– Research was contested
– Research was passively consumed
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
15. Findings: 6 factors impacting policy
change
6. The political environment
– Took approximately 10 years for policy to change
– Relationship between NGOs and policy makers
– Ethos of the state (permanent State and the role
of bureaucrats)
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za
16. Conclusions
• Need to attend to the relationship between
global and local processes
• 3-Is works as checklist with adjustments (an
emphasis on where to look rather than what
causes change)
• ACF was too rigid but useful when used
selectively
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African Centrefor Migration & Society,
School of Social Sciences, University of the
Witwatersrand, info@migration.org.za