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[Goodkindles @Goodkindles]

Asymmetric Humanitarianism: Why #Humanitarian #Aid #Projects Fail - A #Politics #Book by Mubeen Aslam

https://t.co/SFbpaYznMm

How can we #protect and #balance the interests of affected #populations, #donors or #funders and #implementers? 

This book tackles that question...

[Goodkindles @Goodkindles]

Asymmetric #Humanitarianism: Why #Humanitarian #Aid #Projects #Fail - A #Politics #Book by Mubeen Aslam

https://t.co/yHqzSLWVOm

How can we protect and balance the interests of affected populations, #donors or #funders and #implementers? 

This book tackles...

[NBER @nberpubs]

An unconditional cash transfer improved parenting quality and investments in children, but did not appear to improve children's outcomes in the short-term, from @pat_k_krause, @elizabethrds, @smilleralert, @alexbartik, @dbroockman, and @evavivalt https://t.co/NoL3zI8u28

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Like many legacy institutions, the WHO has become mired in bureaucratic bloat, entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest, and international power politics. While the United States has provided the lion’s share of the organization’s funding historically, other countries such as China have exerted undue influence over its operations in ways that serve their own interests and not particularly the interests of the global public.

Global cooperation on health is still critically important to @POTUS and myself, but it isn’t working very well under the WHO as the failures of the COVID era demonstrate. I urge the world's health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wake-up call.

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

@SecKennedy 💯🔥

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

@UN_News_Centre @antonioguterres In 1950, UNRWA catered to ~750K PS refugees, today to ~6Mil PS, >30K local staff (>13K in Gaza), ~150 int'l staff, >1K own project sites, average ~$2B annual spending.
Unfortunately, UNRWA's historical lapses have exacerbated the crisis, not helped resolve it. Terrible politics!

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

@UN_News_Centre @antonioguterres UNRWA's historical lapses:
1. Deviation from core mandate
2. Roles of supra-state entity, local employer & service provider in perpetuity
3. No local capacity-building
4. No transition plan to sustainability / transfer to local/host govts
5. Duplication of other UN agencies' work

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

@UN_News_Centre @antonioguterres Realistically, UNRWA's incompetent, inefficient, corrupt, politicized governance & operating model contradicts UN Charter and its core mandate of 1949:
1. Timebound relief & works ops in concert w/ local govts
2. Consult govts to take responsibility, as emergency relief ops end

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

@UN_News_Centre @antonioguterres Sadly, the review offers the usual UN spins but overlooks the core mandate, governance, operating model, staff structure, capacities to independently monitor own projects, performance & compliance audits or evaluations of the UN entity and its transition plans, if any.

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

@UN_News_Centre @antonioguterres Apparently, not a sane political solution to humanitarian problems.
While one supports humanitarian assistance, UNRWA epitomizes UN's self-absorbed bureaucracy and broken system yet again. Ask, and one would get the most elaborate policies, procedures and plans on Earth on paper!

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

⚕️Most telehealth websites are sharing sensitive health information generated during website navigation with Big Tech/advertising platforms (Amazon Clinic only exception in the study) – STAT & The Markup analysis
#digitalhealth #telehealth #privacy #HIPAA
https://t.co/iVceb4EJjn

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

If the world wants to halt #biodiversity loss, limit #ClimateChange to below 1.5C and achieve #LandDegradation neutrality by 2030, current finance flows to #NatureBasedSolutions must urgently double by 2025 and triple by 2030. #COP15 #COP28
https://t.co/P0mVsS8WXH

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

📈Malik & Hu 2022: 1 sugar-sweetened beverage serving/day linked to

18% higher risk of type 2 diabetes
9% higher risk of heart disease (31% w 2 servings/day)
39% higher risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Tax #sugarydrinks higher now. #bigfood #ncd
https://t.co/0a8fTTlcid

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

This article may contain confidential material. :)
https://t.co/hYqQ9E9eSB

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

For anyone seeking to become a better writer, the works recommended here provide enlightenment and reassurance

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

#French #baguettes, tea rituals in #China, Holy Week in #Guatemala - just some of the newly-protected national treasures which have made the @UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list this week

https://t.co/IKxcihGagN

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

📢The UN Forum on #Minority Issues starts tomorrow.

This year’s theme is 'Review. Rethink. Reform. 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Minority Rights.'

👉https://t.co/QH8gLOx7RG

[NPR @NPR]

The graffiti artist Banksy has revealed a new mural on a building destroyed by shelling in Ukraine that features a gymnast balancing on a pile of rubble.
https://t.co/R6EMsubiP4

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

🇹🇷#Türkiye: UN experts call for the immediate release of anti-torture expert Sebnem Korur Fincancı, & urge authorities to stop using counter-terrorism legislation to intimidate human rights defenders.

👉https://t.co/8HKMRhNZgA

[Λ @areluctantnomad]

"Global [medicine] market growth will return to pre-pandemic projections by 2025" - IQVIA

"Global spending, including COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, to exceed pre-pandemic outlook by $133Bn to 2026" - IQVIA