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- Central African Republic
  
  People
  
  Population 4.34 mln
  
  Population growth 2%
  
  Life expectancy 45 years
  
  Net migration -45,000
  
  Economy
  
  GDP $1.71 bln
  
  - per capita $394
  
  - growth rate 4%
  
  FDI, net inflows $0.03 bln
  
  Infrastructure
  
  Cellphone users 3%
  
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New study doubles estimate of global malaria deaths

"The number of people who die annually of malaria is roughly double the current estimate, with a huge overlooked death toll in adults who, according to conventional teaching, rarely die of the tropical disease. That’s the conclusion of a new study that, if widely accepted, could affect billions of dollars of charitable spending and foreign aid in the developing world. The new estimate is likely to spur increased competition for global health spending, which has stalled in the economic more...

Added by Zunia on February 03, 2012

New estimates of malaria deaths: concern and opportunity

thelancet.com –

"This week we publish surprising and, on the face of it, disturbing findings. According to Christopher Murray and colleagues at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle, there were 1·24 million deaths (95% uncertainty interval 0·93—1·69 million) from malaria worldwide in 2010—around twice the figure of 655 000 estimated by WHO for the same year. How should the malaria community interpret this finding? Before we answer that question, we more...

Added by Zunia on February 03, 2012

Mobile tech and child protection in West Africa

unicef.org –

Currently, some of the most relevant mobile applications for child protection include: Frontline SMS and Ushahidi for violence reporting; RapidFTR for family tracing and reunification in emergencies; RapidSMS for data collection, awareness raising and violence reporting; and the Mobile Vital Record System and Nokia data gathering for mobile birth registration.The purpose of this briefing note is to provide an overview of current applications of mobile technologies with relevance for child more...

Added by Zunia on January 30, 2012

World Bank, Climate Finance, and Bangladesh

bicusa.org –

This study shows that the biggest climate offenders are in fact the richest countries in the world, while low and middle income countries suffer from the effects. With the failure of climate talks at Cancun, the role of the World Bank as manager of funds for climate change adaptation and resilience funds has emerged. Coincidently, this happened at a time when the Bank was adapting itself to the changed geopolitics of financing and grappling to reinstate its dominance among developing economies. more...

Added by Zunia on February 01, 2012

Geographies of the world’s knowledge

oii.ox.ac.uk –

The Internet raised hopes that knowledge might become more accessible, reaching less affluent groups, as well as those farther away from the producers and sources of information. These early expectations remain largely unrealised. Knowledge institutions, including producers and distributors, around the world remain concentrated.“Who controls Wikipedia entries?” The good old times when anyone could intervene and share knowledge on this medium are long gone. Nowadays Wikipedia is based on a more...

Added by Zunia on January 24, 2012

New biodiversity map of the Andes shows species in dire need of protection

biomedcentral.com –

"The Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia is one of the most biologically rich and rapidly changing areas of the world. A new study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Ecology has used information collected over the last 100 years by explorers and from satellite images which reveals detailed patterns of species and ecosystems that occur only in this region. Worryingly, the study also finds that many of these unique species and ecosystems are lacking vital national level more...

Added by Zunia on February 03, 2012

Linked open data: A quick start guide for decision makers

reeep.org –

You want to build a new application that shows the correspondence among economic growth, renewable energy consumption, mortality rates and public spending for education. You also want to improve user experience with mechanisms like faceted browsing. You can already do all of this today, but you probably won’t. Today’s measures for integrating information from different sources, otherwise known as mashing data, are often too time-consuming and too costly.Although the idea of Linked Open Data more...

Added by Zunia on February 01, 2012

Norway: 2011 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Norway

imf.org –

Added by Zunia on February 02, 2012

Citizen-created content, digital equity and the preservation of community memory

ifla.org –

The new order of citizen-created content is challenging established authoritative, trusted knowledge systems, shaking the foundations of information management and professional practice in libraries throughout the world. In the age of information democracy, the content creator is often at centre stage, and with this comes an extraordinary unleashing of digital content. As national libraries globally, our role is to preserve and protect content and we have well established practices for more...

Added by Zunia on January 30, 2012

World Migration Report 2011 - Communicating effectively about migration

publications.iom.int –

The World Migration Report suggests that questions relating to the changing compositions of our societies and cultural diversity can be addressed by integrating diversity into mainstream media and by encouraging migrants to use new social media tools to regularly engage with host and home societies. The report argues that distorted communication about migration contributes to widespread anti-migrant sentiments, which have recently resurfaced in many parts of the world. Harmful stereotypes, more...

Added by Zunia on January 30, 2012

Making the EU's Common Agricultural Policy coherent with development goals

odi.org.uk –

This ODI Briefing Paper calls for a fresh look at the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy alongside development goals and the new global context.

Added by Zunia on September 04, 2011

A framework for disseminating evidence-based health promotion practices

cdc.gov –

Wider adoption of evidence-based, health promotion practices depends on developing and testing effective dissemination approaches. Several conceptual frameworks have been developed to organize the extensive literature on diffusion and dissemination of evidence-based practices. These frameworks are useful for generating hypotheses for future research, but no practical framework exists for developing and testing dissemination approaches. Such a framework would serve as a guide to dissemination more...

Added by Zunia on February 01, 2012

Scenarios for the future of technology and international development

gbn.com –

This paper explores the role of technology in international development in the coming years. It discusses four possible scenarios—a world with more government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation; a world in which successful strategies emerge for addressing urgent and entrenched worldwide issues; an economically unstable world, with a weak government and high criminal activity; and an economically depressed world where each community develops independent, localized more...

Added by Zunia on January 31, 2012

Conditional Cash Transfers as social policy in Latin America: An assessment of their contributions and limitations

ella.practicalaction.org –

This paper surveys the implementation and effects of CCTs programmes in several Latin American countries. It shows that CCTs increase school attendance and other education indicators, improve access to health and medical care, reduce poverty in the short-term, and are being effective in targeting those most in need. Nevertheless, there are limitations, such as a limited effect on education quality and nutrition outcomes. This study is important because it not only focuses on successes, but more...

Added by Zunia on February 01, 2012

SSR Issue Paper: "Policing in Palestine: Analyzing the EU Police Reform Mission in the West Bank"

cigionline.org –

Police reform in the Palestinian Territories has faced many challenges. Rebuilding the police force in a post-conflict environment is not an easy task, and must take into account the community’s needs in order to build legitimacy. In 2006, the European Union Police Coordinating Office for Palestinian Police Support was established to support the short-term objectives of the Palestinian Civil Police and provide longer-term transformational change assistance. This paper, entitled "Policing in more...

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Geoffrey Burt on February 02, 2012

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