Folks recently taken aback when I say national co-PIs are non-negotiable for a new IE

I don't: Live in the country, speak the language, have connections or cred w/ national policy makers

Do we want real policy + on-the-ground change? Then time to get with the program!

Inviting contributions for March 2025 Issue 'Transforming land and water rights, improving rural livelihoods and carving just responses to the climate crisis'

Submit here forms.gle/DXYiKkuUJbGnYD… by 23 May 2024

Read the detailed call here: genderanddevelopment.org/uncategorized/…

Did Development Economics Lose it's Moral Compass? by Jishnu Das #EconTwitter

Mesh of social justice + rigor was what dev econ was all about ~ but fast forward 20 yrs?

'As a discipline, we, as practitioners of development economics are falling short'

linkedin.com/pulse/did-deve…

[course] Oxford - UNICEF
Applications open for the course 'Hard-to-Reach: Applied Research Methods with Hidden, Marginal and Excluded Populations', 12-16 August 2024 at Oxford NuffieldCESS For PhDs, Researchers, NGOs, Gov, UN
bit.ly/4dfMTob

Ray Duch UNICEF Social Policy

What
do
we
have
left
*
*
*
if
we
fail
to
condemn
the
mass
slaughter
of
children?

The children in the mass graves had their hands zip tied behind their backs.

The doctors in the mass graves had their hands zip tied behind their backs.

They were executed en masse, 300 of them.

300 people who people who lived, breathed, loved, laughed, mattered.

.Population Council GIRL Center is looking for a Research Associate / Manager to work on adolescent girl research !

*PhD + 2 yrs or MA + 8 yrs exp
*Salary: $92,000-$120,000
* NY or DC-based

Due May 10th h/t Karen Austrian

recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Job…

What are the priority research questions for masculinities + SRHR?

11 FGDs + rankings from ~140 experts shows many top questions still relate to understanding the issue & improving how we do research

Dr Aoibheann Brennan-Wilson Asha George HRP & co in The Lancet Global Health

thelancet.com/journals/lanxx…

BMC Women's Health is calling for submissions to their Collection on Interventions in #VAWG , remaining a poorly understood field. Researchers, practitioners & scholars are invited to contribute their original research on all aspects of VAWG interventions biomedcentral.com/collections/va…

Lee Bounds in Practice: in today's post I discuss what to do with covariates, how to deal with ties and binary outcomes, whether bounds make sense if you can't reject equality of attrition rates, Lee & LATE, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Introduction to the JDE Special Issue on 'Methods and Measurement' is up!

* measurement error, field experiments, expanding the scope of measures & more 🤓

Kathleen Beegle Dillon Dean Karlan & Christopher Udry

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Households in Conflict Network ( #HiCN ) call for papers w/ theme: Poly-crises

* Oct 1-2, hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Berlin
* Deadline to submit: May 10
* Papers considered for SI of J of Peace Research

Patricia Justino Tilman Brück (mostly on leave from X) philip verwimp

hicn.org/call-for-paper…

Great vacancy - Chief of Social Policy (P-5) for UNICEF Ethiopia. Fascinating work program covering all social policy areas. Further details in the link: Job Details - Chief Social Policy, (P-5), Fixed Term, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (unicef.org)

A deadly heat wave has hit west/central Africa, particularly in Mali. Temperatures are nearly 48.8°C (120°F) in some areas, in which, for any long period of time, humans cannot survive. The heat wave has lasted three weeks
climatecrisis247.com/drought/554467…

Unacceptable.

Bridge must be held accountable + survivors must be 'compensated' ~ this can in no way make up for abuse, but it's somewhere to start

cgdev.org/blog/timeline-…

Reuters' Mohammed Salem has won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award for this image of a Palestinian woman, Inas Abu Maamar, cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in Gaza.

.J-PAL’s Learning for All Initiative is launching its 2nd round of funding for African Scholars—education researchers with a PhD in quantitative disciplines based at a university in sub-Saharan Africa. Learn about the grant types & thematic focus areas ⬇️ povertyactionlab.org/page/learning-…