🚨 Consultancy opportunity🚨 We're looking for a consultant at postdoc level to work with me and colleagues on a new project on social protection. Please send me your CV and cover letter if interested NOVAFRICA NOVAFRICA Student Group Catia Batista Sandra.Sequeira

Join World Bank Poverty on 29th June from 2-3:30 PM EDT for a conversation on the Frontiers of Research on Multidimensional #Poverty with OPHI's Sabina Alkire ➡️ wrld.bg/kFyi50OQGpo #MultidimensionalPoverty

#OPHISummerSchool starts next week! The course, in collaboration with the Centro ODS para América Latina y el Caribe, will provide a technical overview to multidimensional poverty measurement using the AF method. Centro ODS para América Latina y el Caribe Uniandes

#OPHISummerSchool starts tomorrow! The course will provide participants with the skills to construct a multidimensional poverty measure using the AF method, and to learn about its policy relevance. Centro ODS para América Latina y el Caribe Uniandes

Join us online at 6.30PM ET on 11th July for the launch of the global MPI report 2023 where leading experts will discuss how multidimensional poverty data can help us end poverty in all its forms: media.un.org/en/asset/k1r/k… Lenora Qereqeretabua Human Development

If you're an African researcher interested in impact evaluations, we provide funding, mentorship, and networking opportunities through our African Scholars Program! We are committed to advancing the research agenda on the African continent. Details 👇 povertyactionlab.org/page/j-pals-af…

⏰Closing in 2 hours at 12 noon (UK time)! Take a look at this opportunity to join ODID as a Departmental Lecturer in Development Economics (ability to interact with all researchers in #development #economics across Oxford & the CSAE). 👇

Interested in an interdisciplinary PhD in the social sciences? Apply now! #EconTwitter #Sustainability universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2…

Applications for the OPHI ExEd ‘Leaders Programme: Using MPI as a policy tool’ 2023 are open. The 5-day programme will facilitate discussions on multidimensional poverty reduction with fellow policymakers and leading experts. Apply now: ophi.org.uk/ophi-executive…

📣 TOMORROW! Join our annual Public Policy MPP Conference. Students will present on: 🔸Gender roles in work-care division in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 🔸Abortion in Northern Ireland 🇮🇪 🔸Women in STEM in Mexico 🇲🇽 🔸Digital feminism in Egypt 🇪🇬 Hybrid event ➡️ bit.ly/462zP0A

How do questions and topics around #gender intersect with public policy design? This was what our students discussed in this year's #PublicPolicy MPP Conference. Missed out? Here are some event highlights, written by UNU-MERIT lecturer Victor Osei: 💡 bit.ly/47FQHf1

New publication on 'Escaping Corruption in the Demand for Public Services in Africa - The Dual Nature of Civic Networks' in World Development' with Davina Osei Maty Konte, Dr. (She/her). Link: lnkd.in/df35iTC92. CCRED SARChI Industrial Development 📷

📢 Job vacancy Looking for a role where you can engage with policy makers about poverty? Join OPHI as a Research Officer & support with designing national multidimensional measures, plus organise training for governments. Deadline: 15 Feb Info➡️ qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

How do UNU-MERIT alumni deliver knowledge back to their homelands? Here's how Victor Osei, together with three other PhD alumni, rethinked research stays by building a three-week summer school on Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation in Africa. 💡 bit.ly/3ukvYPH

Ghana’s FreeSHS has positive impacts! Our recent study (Alicia Victor Osei Rose Camille Vincent) found a 14% increase in the number of girls completing SHS because of #FreeSHS CITI FM 97.3 MyJoyOnline GTV Ghana UTV Ghana Peace FM Online Brentford lover Akoto Boafo Ministry of Education Ghana 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

5 UNU-MERIT researchers co-authored the Food and Agriculture Organization publication 'Strengthening coherence between forestry and social protection for sustainable agrifood systems transformation', which highlights opportunities for policymakers to achieve Agenda 2030's goals. ➡️ bitly.ws/3i6IY

Last week Ghana Statistical Service organised workshops across Ghana’s 16 regions to share the results of district MPI reports (based on the 2021 census) with leaders of local government & key stakeholders. Find more information below. 🧵

Our insane greed for gold, polluting all our water bodies in that pursuit, will lead to nothing but more poverty & exploitation of the masses. Soon, WATER will be the new gold & the poor will be the worst off paying top dollar just to have a sip!! #StopGalamoseyNow #StopGalamsey

Come work for me Center for Global Development on education evidence! This is a relatively senior role and you will be working directly with me and leading others to take the evidence from the literature and turn into policy recommendations. Great analysis and writing skills needed

I didn’t like awards until I started getting them… This year’s Excellence in Teaching award granted to me by Harvard Kennedy School at a time when Harvard is under attack brings special joy to me. Thank you to all my students and fabulous teaching team—Stephanie, Gustavo, and Isaac.