Goals, Millennium DevelopmentDFID. (2011). Defining Disaster Resilience: What does it mean for DFID? Department for International Development.DFID (2011) `Defining disaster resilience: What does it mean for DFID' (London, Department for International Development)....
Concerns that Donald Trump will dramatically cut US aid spending and oversee a withdrawal from global development have sent shockwaves through NGOs and others who fear what the impact of his presidency will be on the world’s largest donor of internation
What does it mean? Does this lead to better aid? Better spending? And what if it creates unrealistic timelines, where development becomes more like a for-profit company that must demonstrate impact within a fiscal quarter? We all know that development initiatives and impact take much longer ...
“What is actually happening? What does it mean when you become more identifiable?” Is it OK to use digital ID systems for social control and social accountability? The Chinese social credit system, according to one Salon participant, includes a social control function. “If you have not ...
It is one of the few countries to reach the UN development aid target of 0.7% GNI, and has a strong and well respected Department for International Development (DFID). As a member state of the EU, Britain is part of the world’s largest development aid donor community which disburses ...
To begin tackling the problem of increased vulnerability to natural disasters, we must understand what we are trying to achieve. In recent years, the termresiliencehas gained popularity, but it is used in widely varying ways. All communities should strive for resilience, but what does it mean?
The political economy of social media: what does it mean for tourism? The case of youtube. The research presented here builds on theories of the political economy of (new) media. The objective of this paper is to overcome two 'blind spots' in the... MT Hančič,B Kurež,B Brum...
Using five types of livelihood capital values for poor families as poverty proxy indicators, we quantified the net contribution of PPAPs to poverty reduction in rural low-income families through probability distribution comparative analysis, mean comparison analysis, and difference-in-difference regression ...
“using common questions and/or survey instruments such as those developed at the World Bank, DfiD, and OECD in recent years to measure financial literacy and capability in a target population is a step in the right direction and will help increase the availability of comparable data on what ...
As it currently stands, our model does not include the effects of immunity. Immune responses are not well understood, but possible mechanisms include acquired immunity from past exposure to infection and a long-lived immune response generated by death of adult worms [35, 36]. Without a clear ...