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Impacts of economic inequality on healthcare worker safety at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic : cross-sectional analysis of a global survey
Get PDFObjectives To assess the extent to which protection of healthcare workers (HCWs) as COVID-19 emerged was associated with economic inequality among and within countries. Design Cross-sectional analysis of associations of perceptions of workplace risk acceptability and mitigation measure adequacy with indicators of respondents’ respective country’s economic income level (World Bank assessment) and degree of within-country inequality (Gini index). Setting A global self-administered online survey. Participants 4977 HCWs and healthcare delivery stakeholders from 161 countries responded to health and safety risk questions and a subset of 4076 (81.2%) answered mitigation measure questions. The majority (65%) of study participants were female. Results While the levels of risk being experienced at the pandemic’s onset were consistently deemed as unacceptable across all groupings, participants from countries with less income inequality were somewhat less likely to report unacceptable levels of risk to HCWs regarding both workplace environment (OR=0.92, p=0.012) and workplace organisational factors (OR=0.93, p=0.017) compared with counterparts in more unequal national settings. In contrast, considerable variation existed in the degree to which mitigation measures were considered adequate. Adjusting for other influences through a logistic regression analysis, respondents from lower middle-income and low-income countries were comparatively much more likely to assess both occupational health and safety (OR=10.91, p≤0.001) and infection prevention and control (IPC) (OR=6.61, p=0.001) protection measures as inadequate, despite much higher COVID-19 rates in wealthier countries at the time of the survey. Greater within-country income inequality was also associated with perceptions of less adequate IPC measures (OR=0.94, p=0.025). These associations remained significant when accounting for country-level differences in occupational and gender composition of respondents, including specifically when only female care providers, our study’s largest and most at-risk subpopulation, were examined. Conclusions Economic inequality threatens resilience of health systems that rely on health workers working safely to provide needed care during emerging pandemics
Forms of evaluation of research proposals oriented to development problems : practices and perspectives from national science and technology organizations and higher education institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Get PDFSpanish version available in IDRC Digital Library : Formas de evaluación de propuestas de investigación orientadas a problemas del desarrollo. prácticas y perspectivas desde organizaciones nacionales de ciencia y tecnología e instituciones de educación superior de América Latina y el CaribeThe survey analyzes and makes visible relevant and quality research projects aimed at finding solutions to the problems of social and economic development in Latin American and Caribbean countries. It contributes to the development of more inclusive, responsible, plural, and diverse research and evaluation systems. This is an exploratory and observational study. Results show that in half or more of the programmes surveyed, resources are allocated for the financing of expenditure on instruments, materials and inputs necessary for research activities; investments in equipment and infrastructure; and the payment of salaries of researchers involved in funded research projects
Finance for resilience podcast : demystifying adaptation finance
No full textCDKN's second episode of the Finance for Resilience podcast series unpacks the topic of adaptation finance. CDKN's climate finance lead, Kamleshan Pillay, is joined by several distinguished guests. Listen in as they share some of their insights and experiences from their work, including challenges, solutions, as well as important lessons that are being learned in the process
Meeting the challenges of information disorder in the Global South
Get PDFThe research was conducted collaboratively, with regional reports provided by local teams from Research ICT Africa, InternetLab (Latin America and the Caribbean), LIRNEasia (Asia), and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (Middle East and North Africa). This detailed study provides an overview of the entities that are active in the fight against information disorder in the MENA region, and the methods and responses they use. It also discusses and analyzes legal and human rights issues and the context of freedom of opinion and expression in which they operate
Mitigating the effects of climate change on grain quality and post-harvest losses in East Africa
No full textThe Eastern Africa Grain Council, in partnership with CDKN, launched this project in Kenya and Uganda in 2019. The project focuses on promoting climate change adaptation initiatives that are designed to positively impact agricultural productivity in the grain sector, and therefore improve food security for the region
L’impact du programme SCAED sur l’insertion socio-economique des jeunes vulnerables en Cote D’ivoire : une approche par essai aleatoire controle
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Principles and structures of science advice : an outline
No full textScience advice to inform policymaking at multiple scales has experienced a surge in interest and activity in recent years. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic shone a stark light on the processes by which national governments and the multi-lateral community obtain scientific knowledge for decision making, there was a growing interest in the systems and processes of evidence development and expert interpretation. From both supply and demand perspectives, science advice for policy has come to be seen as both informing policy solutions and underpinning the public trust necessary to implement them successfully. While formal processes of science advice emerged after the Second World War, their initial purpose tended to support national defence and security interests. Over time, science advice has come to support wider developmental and environmental interests through advice on understanding complex systems, social policy, data, technology, and innovation. There is a growing recognition of the need for science-policy interface mechanisms at regional and global scales to support collective action on issues of common concern as the interdependencies of complex policy issues are better understood