June 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

How Transparent is U.S. Foreign Aid?

There are plenty of adjectives that can be used to describe U.S. foreign aid overseas: messy, sporadic and fragmented, to name just a few. And unfortunately, as a new Oxfam report makes overpoweringly clear, 'transparent' isn't high on that...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 8:40 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Cash, Hookers — and Whales?

In future schoolbooks, when historians document the decline of the global whale population, they may have some fairly non-P.G. reasons to cite — such as government officials' appetite for call girls, and Japan's willingness to supply them. That's...

Published Mon, Jun 14 2010 1:09 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Engineering Success? New Evidence on the Millennium Villages Project

If you're looking for clarity three years in on whether the Millennium Villages Project — the vision of aid utopia from industry superstar Jeffrey Sachs — are best practice or bunk, you're best off avoiding the MVP's latest report . For those...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 6:51 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Insect Eating is For Everyone, the UN Says

When locusts descended on Egypt in the Bible, maybe the powers that be weren't sending a plague — maybe they were just sending the beleaguered Pharaoh a really good meal. Or so some UN representatives would suggest. The United Nations has been touting...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 7:47 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The U.S. Finally Recognizes Human Trafficking Within its Borders

Is the world making progress in the fight against human trafficking? Every year, the U.S. State Department tries to answer that question. And this year's report, released yesterday, found that though there are some 12.3 million people who've been...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 1:01 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

No Winners For This Year's African Governance Prize

Successful Sudanese entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim has $5 million that he'd really like to give away. There's just one problem, though: He can't find any recipients for his money. Yesterday, for the second year running, Ibrahim's foundation decided...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 2:48 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

It’s Not How Much You Give, It's How You Give It

What's the best way to give aid in the developing world? To break it down very simply, there are three ways donors agencies can give aid — differences that basically come down to trade-offs between user-friendliness and riskiness. Let's start...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 7:14 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

When the Drugs Don't Work

When penicillin first crossed the global stage during World War II, it was embraced as a miracle drug, a silver bullet for previously intractable bacterial infections. And it was — but not for long. Patients' bacteria swiftly began to develop a resistance...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 8:52 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

What TV Can Do For Rice Farmers

Television hasn't always enjoyed a very good rap. It's the modern-day " infernal box, " a purveyor of jingles and empty talking heads — by at least some measures, the signal measure of America's decline . It's also, as Sarah...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 2:11 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Toilet Is the New Mobile Phone (Or Should Be)

The White House isn’t the only place you’ll hear a lot about toilets these days. Buried in the letters section of the June 7 edition of the Financial Times , one reader made this rather bold statement while talking about Africa: “A toilet is the new mobile...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 6:18 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Why You Need TXA as Much as Your Seat Belt

When someone perishes in a car crash — as happened in the case of Zenani Mandela's fatal accident this week — any number of "what if's" besiege the mind: What if the driver hadn't been drinking? What if they hadn't taken that...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 8:16 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How to Stop the Sahara's Spread ? Build a Great Green Wall

Today in Chad, 11 African leaders collected $119 million dollars — to plant trees. The money, pledged from the Global Environment Facility, is intended to help Saharan countries go green. Literally. The plan, according to the BBC , is to build a "wall"...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 1:42 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Will Trade Guns For Job? Turning AK-47s into Ploughshares

I’m spending a lot of time lately thinking about one of the most ubiquitous acronyms in post-conflict Africa: DDR. So few letters, so many expectations. DDR stands for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (usually). It’s the process by which...

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 6:52 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

How to Deal with Corruption Allegations: Zambia Edition

Here's a real-life quandary straight out of Ranil's post on aid accountability: following evidence of fraud within Zambia's ministry of health, millions in aid grants to the country have been suspended . After all, how can donors be expected...

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 3:09 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

For the 12 Million Roma, Europe is the Third World

The order to leave came unexpectedly, with residents given only 20 minutes to abandon their homes and much of their belongings. “They came with trucks and police cars,” one of the victims from the informal Gazela Bridge settlement in Belgrade, Serbia...

Published Fri, Jun 18 2010 12:55 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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