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Designing teacher professional development with ICTs to support system-wide improvement in teaching
Get PDFThis working paper from the TPD@Scale Coalition for the Global South argues that harnessing the power of information and communications technologies (ICTs) is essential to address the challenge of providing equitable, quality TPD for all teachers. Drawing on scholarship and initiatives in diverse contexts, it proposes the TPD@Scale Framework to guide the design and implementation of high-quality, equitable, and efficient professional development at scale for teachers. The TPD@Scale Framework is specifically concerned with meeting the professional learning needs of large numbers of teachers with diverse characteristics and skills, many of whom have limited access to resources and poor social conditions of work
Geopolitics and Africa’s just transition
Get PDFAfrica’s transition to clean energy is prone to global geopolitics. The current global energy resulting from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has led to a general increase in prices of food and other related commodities around the world. This is happening at a time when many countries are gradually recovering from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Looking at the discourse of the just transition across the world, Africa’s position and understanding need to be put within the contextual realities of the continent. Millions of people in Africa are hungry, energy impoverished, and depend on unclean energy. Additionally, over 80% of the population is in the informal sector, and they operate from the bottom of the pyramid. Given this, the discussion about the just transition in Africa needs to be centred on the socioeconomics of the continent. Africa is vulnerable to climate change because it has a very low socio-economic base. It is the least climate-resilient region and lacks the capacity and climate finance for adaptation and/ or mitigation. A just transition in Africa should ensure more access to resources. It should be about equity, putting food on the table, and more money in more pockets. Additionally, the discussions should shift to how Africa can leverage its abundance to cushion the livelihoods against shocks; because emergencies and calamities will continue. There is a need to climate-proof Africa so that the continent can be socio-economically viable and lift its people from the bottom of the pyramid
Assessing Mbiotisho : a smartphone application used to collect high‐frequency health and nutrition data from difficult‐to‐reach populations
Get PDFThere is an urgent need for improved and timely health and nutrition data. We developed and tested a smartphone application that caregivers from a pastoral population used to measure, record and submit high‐frequency and longitudinal health and nutrition information on themselves and their children. The data were assessed by comparing caregiver‐submitted measurements of mid–upper arm circumference (MUAC) to several benchmark data sets, including data collected by community health volunteers from the participating caregivers during the project period and data generated by interpreting photographs of MUAC measurements submitted by all participants. We found that the caregivers participated frequently and consistently over the 12‐month period of the project; most of them made several measurements and submissions in at least 48 of the 52 weeks of the project. The evaluation of data quality was sensitive to which data set was used as the benchmark, but the results indicate that the errors in the caregivers' submissions were similar to that of enumerators in other studies. We then compare the costs of this alternative approach to data collection through more conventional methods, concluding that conventional methods can be more cost‐effective for large socioeconomic surveys that value the breadth of the survey over the frequency of data, while the alternative we tested is favoured for those with objectives that are better met by high‐frequency observations of a smaller number of well‐defined outcomes.Consortium of International Agricultural Research Center
Making vaccines available and accessible to women and other marginalized livestock farmers
Get PDFWhen women’s animals are not vaccinated, the animals pose a risk to spread of disease in the wider community. The LVIF study’s broad purpose was to understand the reasons that prevent the livestock and poultry of women and other marginalized groups from being vaccinated. By mapping the entire vaccine value chain of the PPR vaccine, the study noted two sites or nodes of action where applying a gendered intersectional analysis could lead to improved uptake of vaccinations for the animals of women and other marginalized groups regardless of their socio-cultural background, age, ethnicity, and geographic location.Global Affairs CanadaBill & Melinda Gates Foundatio
Gender-responsive and inclusive veterinary extension for healthy animals, reduced poverty and empowered women
Get PDFThe study’s broad purpose was to understand the reasons why animal health workers overlook women in service delivery. In order to understand this, the study looked at the different identities and roles of women, not just as wives and mothers and farmers, but also as managers and owners of livestock. The study found that, it is common, in Karamoja, for women to own small ruminants and poultry, as well as be responsible for managing dairy cattle and other livestock in the home compound. However, the common perception among extension agents is that women do not own or manage livestock, that they are not strong enough to restrain an animal, and that only men can make decisions about livestock production, health, and business
Integrating tuberculosis and COVID-19 molecular testing in Lima, Peru : a cross-sectional, diagnostic accuracy study
Get PDFIntegrated molecular testing could be an opportunity to detect and provide care for both tuberculosis and COVID-19. Many high tuberculosis burden countries, such as Peru, have existing GeneXpert systems for tuberculosis testing with GeneXpert Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Xpert Ultra), and a GeneXpert SARS-CoV-2 assay, GeneXpert Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2 (Xpert Xpress), is also available. We aimed to assess the feasibility of integrating tuberculosis and COVID-19 testing using one sputum specimen with Xpert Ultra and Xpert Xpress in Lima, Peru.Canadian Institutes of Health Researc
Resolving land tenure security is essential to deliver forest restoration
No full textTropical countries are making ambitious commitments to Forest Landscape Restoration with the aim of locking up carbon, conserving biodiversity and benefiting local livelihoods. However, global and national analyses of restoration potential frequently ignore socio-legal complexities which impact both the effectiveness and equitability of restoration. We show that areas with the highest restoration potential are disproportionately found in countries with weak rule of law and frequently in those with substantial areas of unrecognized land tenure. Focusing on Madagascar, at least 67% of the areas with highest restoration potential must be on untitled land, where tenure is often unclear or contested, and we show how unresolved tenure issues are one of the most important limitations on forest restoration. This is likely to be a bigger problem than currently recognized and without important efforts to resolve local tenure issues, opportunities to equitably scale up forest restoration globally are likely to be significantly over-estimated.UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development OfficeEuropean Unio
Reducing health risks of rising temperatures in South Asia (RRR)
Get PDFThe RRR project (Reducing health risks of rising temperatures in South Asia) investigates real life heat stress experiences, both in urban and rural settings in India. A heat warning indicator, based on the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) index was developed using local weather data. It tailored local forecasts based on these weather data, so the India Meteorological Department (IMD) could express heat stress levels that people could expect to experience three days ahead. South Asian regions have high temperatures already and these will worsen. People with low income have dramatically lower access to cooling
Leadership in research for development series : brief 1
Get PDFFrench version available in IDRC Digital Library: Renforcer le leadership : les leçons des chefs de file de la recherche d’aujourd’hui et de demainThe evaluation assesses leadership strengthening in IDRC-funded award programs with the aim of understanding how best to support graduate students and early career researchers. It identifies some of the key features regarding good research for development (R4D) leadership, such as expertise in the field, and some lesser-known qualities including the capacity to inspire and empower others through collaborative approaches. Funders can draw lessons from this research, given how alumni in the Global South understand the strengths of good R4D leaders. They can support R4D leadership through individual awards programs and research grants