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Improving global health corresponds directly to reducing poverty, and thus aid and development must also be discussed. This section pulls from various and and development sites.
Organization: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Country: Jordan Closing date: 13 Jun 2013 TERMS OF REFERENCE UNRWA is a United Nations agency established by the General Assembly in 1949 and is mandated to provide assistance and protection to a population of some 5 million registered Palestine refugees. Its mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank and the Gaza Strip to achieve their full potential in human development, pending a just solution to their plight. UNRWA’s services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance and emergency assistance. UNRWA is the largest UN operation in the Middle East with more than 30,000 staff.
May 23, 2013 USAID Administrator Raj Shah unveiled the agencies first ever water and development strategy. Civil society groups are expressing excitement over the scope and strength of the new strategy, dubbing it a “major advance.” But many are also calling on lawmakers to ensure that, during the coming implementation phase, US aid is targeted primarily at the poorest communities in developing and middle-income countries. “Achieving water security for regions, nations, and individuals is one of the greatest development challenges confronting the world today,” the new Water and Development Strategy, released on Tuesday by USAID, the country’s main foreign aid arm, states. “By its nature, as a basic and essential resource, water considerations cut across nearly every aspect of USAID programming.” Yet because of this cross-cutting nature, the new document covers both the human and agricultural uses of water, the new strategy was a very long time coming, requiring input and agreement from a vast number of government agencies and stakeholders. “It is kind of astounding that this is the US government’s first such strategy, though it is something that many groups have long been advocating for,” Alanna Imbach, media officer with WaterAid America, a global advocacy and implementing group, told IPS.
“I’m shocked by the optimism here,” Howard Yana-Shapiro, the chief agricultural officer for Mars Inc. said Tuesday to the audience of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Global Food Security Symposium in Washington, D.C. via Could African Crops Be Improved With Private Biotech Data? : The Salt : NPR.
Organization: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Country: occupied Palestinian territory Closing date: 22 Jun 2013 UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST UNRWA UNRWA is a United Nations agency established by the General Assembly in 1949 and is mandated to provide assistance and protection to a population of some 5 million registered Palestine refugees. Its mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank and the Gaza Strip to achieve their full potential in human development, pending a just solution to their plight. UNRWA’s services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance and emergency assistance. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions. UNRWA is the largest UN operation in the Middle East with more than 30,000 staff.
Organization: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Country: occupied Palestinian territory Closing date: 11 Jun 2013 UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST UNRWA UNRWA is a United Nations agency established by the General Assembly in 1949 and is mandated to provide assistance and protection to a population of some 5 million registered Palestine refugees. Its mission is to help Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank and the Gaza Strip to achieve their full potential in human development, pending a just solution to their plight. UNRWA’s services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance and emergency assistance. UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions.
Nora Schenkel wrote a post mortem last week of her aborted development career ‘I Came to Haiti to Do Good….’ I’m sorry we lost you Nora, and I hope that you change your mind. Though long hours hunched over a laptop fiddling with Excel might not always feel like it, working on the most important moral issue of our time, in whatever small way, is really a great privilege. I sympathise with your guilt living a comfortable life amidst extreme poverty, and your frustration feeling that aid isn’t making a positive difference. But your guilt is misplaced, and our frustration with ineffective aid should be a spur to do it better, not to just give up. Your guilt is misplaced because almost all of us lucky enough to be born in wealthy countries have relatively comfortable lives.
Organization: International Foundation for Election Systems Country: South Sudan (Republic of) Closing date: 25 Jun 2013 Senior Elections Advisor-South Sudan Location: South Sudan, Juba Division: Program Management Status: International Full Time Position Number: 13:139 Project Description: IFES is an international, nonprofit organization that supports the building of democratic societies. IFES provides targeted technical assistance to strengthen transitional democracies. Founded in 1987 as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, IFES has developed and implemented comprehensive, collaborative democracy solutions in more than 120 countries. Since gaining independence in July 2011, South Sudan has struggled with the challenges of finalizing certain elements of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the self-imposed suspension of petroleum extraction, and establishing a number of sound democratic pillars, among others. IFES is currently responding to USAID’s Request for Application entitled “Inclusive Political Processes in South Sudan”.
Organization: International Foundation for Election Systems Country: South Sudan (Republic of) Closing date: 25 Jun 2013 Constitutional Development Advisor-South Sudan Location: South Sudan, Juba Division: Program Management Status: International Full Time Position Number: 13:138 Project Description: IFES is an international, nonprofit organization that supports the building of democratic societies. IFES provides targeted technical assistance to strengthen transitional democracies. Founded in 1987 as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, IFES has developed and implemented comprehensive, collaborative democracy solutions in more than 120 countries. Since gaining independence in July 2011, South Sudan has struggled with the challenges of finalizing certain elements of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the self-imposed suspension of petroleum extraction, and establishing a number of sound democratic pillars, among others. IFES is currently responding to USAID’s Request for Application entitled “Inclusive Political Processes in South Sudan”
Organization: Education Development Center Country: South Sudan (Republic of) Closing date: 20 Jun 2013 Education Development Center (EDC) is one of the world’s leading nonprofit research and development firms. Established in 1958, EDC designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic opportunity. At the moment, EDC is seeking a variety of technical and management specialists for a $60 million United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project to strengthen a free and independent media in South Sudan, with an emphasis on building professionalism, production capacities, freer and open environment and self-sustainability of the media sector. Due to its unique potential for communicating with virtually the entire population, media can enable a much needed national conversation vital to contributing to the country’s democratic development. An effective media helps shape the national conversation about all aspects of development, ranging from health and education to poverty reduction and corruption
Organization: National Democratic Institute Country: Nepal Closing date: 21 Jun 2013 Resident Program Director for Political Party Programs (Nepal) Job Description The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) is seeking candidates to direct its political party development assistance program in Nepal. The Resident Program Director would oversee a broad-ranging training and assistance effort designed to help political parties develop internal governance and policymaking structures, better connect with voters and constituents, and improve their electoral competitiveness. The Resident Program Director reports directly to the Resident Director in Nepal and would be supported by staff in Kathmandu and Washington, D.C. The Resident Program Director is based in Kathmandu. Background NDI has been working in Nepal since 1994 to strengthen the country’s democratic processes.
Organization: Education Development Center Country: South Sudan (Republic of) Closing date: 21 Jun 2013 Education Development Center (EDC) is one of the world’s leading nonprofit research and development firms. Established in 1958, EDC designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic opportunity. At the moment, EDC is seeking a variety of technical and management specialists for a $60 million United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project to strengthen a free and independent media in South Sudan, with an emphasis on building professionalism, production capacities, freer and open environment and self-sustainability of the media sector. Due to its unique potential for communicating with virtually the entire population, media can enable a much needed national conversation vital to contributing to the country’s democratic development.
It’s been a while, I know. For the two or three of you who check in here, from time to time, I can assure you, no–this blog’s not dead. Just in a bit of a coma. Or maybe hungover. I’ve been busy
U.S. officials Tuesday formally unveiled the government’s first comprehensive strategy aimed at integrating water into all U.S. development funding and programmes, a step long urged by advocates and development experts.
From the independent review of DFID’s use of consultants: ICAI reviewed the DFID Central Procurement Group and a range of programmes with a combined contract value of £264 million. The case studies show that contractors are an effective option for delivering aid. DFID has selected contractors that have delivered positive results at competitive fee rates. DFID’s poor end-to-end programme management, however, has led to delays.
