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Opportunities for climate finance mainstreaming : national development bank of Botswana organisational strategy analysis
Get PDFThis report considers how National Development Bank of Botswana (“NDB”) can integrate climate finance into its organisational strategy and across all its systems. Climate change challenges can be addressed more effectively though improved access to climate finance that utilises the opportunities it presents for driving both business growth and impact in alignment with the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement to which Botswana is a party
Making cough count in tuberculosis care
Get PDFCough assessment is central to the clinical management of respiratory diseases, including tuberculosis (TB), but strategies to objectively and unobtrusively measure cough are lacking. Acoustic epidemiology is an emerging field that uses technology to detect cough sounds and analyze cough patterns to improve health outcomes among people with respiratory conditions linked to cough. This field is increasingly exploring the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for more advanced applications, such as analyzing cough sounds as a biomarker for disease screening. While much of the data are preliminary, objective cough assessment could potentially transform disease control programs, including TB, and support individual patient management. Here, we present an overview of recent advances in this field and describe how cough assessment, if validated, could support public health programs at various stages of the TB care cascade
Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya
Get PDFAgricultural services are fundamental to driving agricultural development. In designing these services, it is critical to consider gender roles from the outset to identify effective pathways for change and to avoid exacerbating gender inequality. In this project note, we analyze the functioning of this champion farmer model using a case study in Kenya. We seek to assess gender-based barriers that champion farmers may face in providing agricultural services. Specifically, the case study provides insights into opportunities that drive champion farmers to start their entrepreneurial activities to deliver agricultural services, the barriers that they face in carrying out these activities, and the extent to which farmers in their communities see them as social influencers.Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)ISSD Africa progra
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Get PDFINSPIRE PEACH courses
No full textThe website offers information on the training program and courses created by INSPIRE PEACH. The courses are designed to help uncover and address the skills and knowledge gaps of health data professionals with several pathways of training in mind such as data trackers, data managers, and analysts. The courses were developed with the aim to support scientists working on health data mapping and transformation tasks and data discovery, access, and reuse
Protecting healthcare workers from COVID‐19 : a comparative contextualized analysis
Get PDFHealthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk of occupational exposure to infectious diseases if not adequately protected, as well‐documented in outbreaks of SARS, MERS, and Ebola and ongoing exposure to tuberculosis in high‐burden settings. The COVID‐19 pandemic has drawn further attention to adequately protecting HCWs worldwide as they care for COVID‐19 patients while also trying to meet ongoing healthcare demands amid chronic global HCW shortages. Significant pressures associated with the increased health system burden faced by HCWs during the pandemic include risk of infection, stigmatization, and anxieties about family transmission, along with fatigue, burnout, stress, and shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE). However, while there is general agreement on many aspects of policy to protect the physical and mental health of HCWs, approaches to implementation diverge widely. Moreover, while it is agreed that cross‐disciplinary efforts need to be well‐integrated and not operate at “cross purposes”, often infection prevention and control (IPC) and public health measures are inconsistent and vary widely across jurisdictions. Differences may be due to variable availability of PPE (e.g. N95 respirators, masks, gloves, gowns); diverse operational needs (e.g. service demands requiring allowing COVID‐exposed HCWs to work rather than self‐isolating); lack of test kits or related reagents (e.g. as return‐to‐work criteria); and availability of trained personnel for exposure monitoring, testing strategy and contact tracing for HCWs may also differ widely
Food system transformative integrated policy
Get PDFThere are many challenges in African countries’ food systems, including food insecurity and nutrition, which can be addressed by evidence-informed food system policies. However, there is limited evidence on the current food system situation which constrains the development and implementation of such policies. The FS-TIP initiative aims to diagnose food system challenges and identify policies and stakeholders required for the functioning of food systems in Africa, with an initial focus on Rwanda, Malawi, and Ghana. The process also aimed to contribute to and inform the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) in-country dialogues and was implemented between April and August 2021
Climate and development knowledge network : knowledge accelerator for climate compatible development : third annual analytical narrative progress overview - 1 April 2021-31 March 2022
Get PDFThe CDKN Knowledge Accelerator consolidates and further grows a global knowledge and learning network to broker practical and tailored knowledge on climate and development for its use and application in decision making in the Global South. CDKN aims to create an enabling environment for implementation and scaling of climate and development actions. This programme’s desired overall long-term impact is for actors in policy, planning, programming and delivery of climate action at sub-national, national and international levels to interdependently implement gender-responsive and socially equitable climate actions. This report covers the period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022. During this reporting period alone, CDKN produced 123 outputs, held 56 engagement events and 5 peer learning events. Significant evidence of progress toward medium- and long-term outcomes is included in this report
Mapping the intersection of women’s economic empowerment, care work and clean energy
Get PDFFrench version available in IDRC Digital Library : Cartographie de l’intersection entre l’émancipation économique des femmes, le travail de soins et l’énergie propreThis paper explores the intersection of women’s economic empowerment (WEE), care work and clean energy, with a particular focus on low and middle-income countries (LMICs). It begins by providing a conceptual framework which illustrates that initiatives addressing WEE, care work and clean energy are mutually reinforcing, even mutually dependent, constituting a virtuous circle. It then goes on to map the available research and evidence linking these issues, before unpacking the role of social norms in determining women’s ability to equally shape and benefit from the clean energy transition. It concludes by identifying areas for future work and research for actors interested in promoting a “triple win”: where clean energy access is improved, WEE is enhanced, and women’s heavy and unequal responsibility for care work is reduced and redistributed