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New GEI Volume on Gender in Human Resources for Health Now Available!
Edited by Laura Reichenbach
Global Equity Initiative (2008)
Despite growing attention to human resources for health, consideration of how gender affects the number, distribution, and skill mix of the global health workforce has not been adequately addressed. This volume presents six case studies that identify a range of siutations in which gender impacts on human resources for health. The underlying hypothesis is that the gender dimensions of the health workforce present both potential barriers as well as possible entry-points through which the health system can strengthen the existing health workforce. The volume is an outcome of the Gender Task Force of the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI), an effort that engaged global health leaders to identify strategies for strengthening the health workforce.
Read the Lancet review here.
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War in Darfur and the Search for Peace Released!
Alex de Waal, Editor
Global Equity Initiative (2007)
Since 2003, the Darfur region of Sudan has been the locus of a hideous war that has aroused the outrage of milions of ordinary people across the world. But despite a high level of media coverage and activist mobilization, Darfur's society and politics remain poorly understood. War in Darfur and the Search for Peace brings together essays by noted Sudanese scholars and international experts on Darfur, containing much new historical and contemporary research.
Alex de Waal has worked on Darfur since 1985. He is the author of Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan, 1984-1985, lead author of Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa, and co-author of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War. For more info on these titles, click here.
Published by GEI and Justice Africa. Purchase your copy here.
Philanthropy: Disaster Relief
Here's an exceprt from Comparative Advantage in Disaster Response:
This paper introduces a framework for a systematic analysis of the comparative advantages of various types of emergency responders. The framework is tested against data from two cases: 1) the disaster response following the 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka and 2) the response in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch in 1998. This work is intended to inspire other researchers interested in questions of disaster response to employ this methodology to develop and publish cases as well, creating a body of analysis that could then be further refined into policy recommendations to improve humanitarian emergency efforts.
Continue reading Comparative Advantage in Disaster Response.
photo by Barbara Merz - Sri Lanka, April 2006
Making Sense of Darfur Blog
Program director Alex de Waal now has his own blog on the Darfur crisis. His first entry responds to John Prendergast’s “Plan B” strategy paper on Darfur—which formed the substance of a recent discussion between the two experts at the U.S. National Holocaust Museum.
From Alex's blog:
Every month, we hear advocates and humanitarian organizations saying that the situation in Darfur is once again deteriorating. The Sudan government says the opposite. It is unusual for an independent observer such as Gerbert van der Aa to make the case that things are not as bad as they are painted. What is the basis for these claims and counter-claims? Is it violent deaths, overall mortality and malnutrition, levels of displacement, security incidents affecting humanitarian agencies, or some other indicator?
Continue reading Alex's blog entry, Are things getting worse in Darfur? There is no simple answer.
Alex de Waal Speaks on Darfur at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
On Wednesday, May 30, the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., hosted a public program, "What to do about Darfur?" featuring two of the leading analysts on the crisis: Alex de Waal of the Social Science Research Council and John Prendergast of Enough!..
For information from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum homepage, click here.
OPHI Launch Event
Launch Event details here!
The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) has been formally launched! OPHI, directed by Sabina Alkire, is a research initiative within the Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford that advances the human development approach to poverty reduction by fundamental, sustained, and multidisciplinary research that is effectively disseminated. Its research aims to contribute to a multidimensional poverty reduction framework grounded in Sen's capability approach and similar ideas. This framework incorporates multiple dimensions, interconnections and principles simultaneously in order to inform policymaking and foster debate.
Launch events included public plenary events and a lecture by Amartya Sen.