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The Sentinel Period Ending 30 September 2017 The Sentinel Human Rights Action :: Humanitarian Response :: Health :: Education :: Heritage Stewardship :: Sustainable Development __________________________________________________ Period ending 30 September 2017 This weekly digest is intended to aggregate and distill key content from a broad spectrum of practice domains and organization types including key agencies/IGOs, NGOs, governments, academic and research institutions, consortiums and collaborations, foundations, and commercial organizations. We also monitor a spectrum of peer-reviewed journals and general media channels. The Sentinel’s geographic scope is global/regional but selected country-level content is included. We recognize that this spectrum/scope yields an indicative and not an exhaustive product. The Sentinel is a service of the Center for Governance, Evidence, Ethics, Policy & Practice, a program of the GE2P2 Global Foundation, which is solely responsible for its content. Comments and suggestions should be directed to: David R. Curry Editor, The Sentinel President. GE2P2 Global Foundation [email protected] The Sentinel is also available as a pdf document linked from this page: http://ge2p2-center.net/ Support this knowledge-sharing service: Your financial support helps us cover our costs and address a current shortfall in our annual operating budget. Click here to donate and thank you in advance for your contribution. _____________________________________________ Contents [click on link below to move to associated content] :: Week in Review :: Key Agency/IGO/Governments Watch - Selected Updates from 30+ entities :: INGO/Consortia/Joint Initiatives Watch - Media Releases, Major Initiatives, Research :: Foundation/Major Donor Watch -Selected Updates :: Journal Watch - Key articles and abstracts from 100+ peer-reviewed journals :: Week in Review A highly selective capture of strategic developments, research, commentary, analysis and announcements spanning Human Rights Action, Humanitarian Response, Health, Education, Holistic Development, Heritage Stewardship, Sustainable Resilience. Achieving a balance across these broad themes is a challenge and we appreciate your observations and ideas in this regard. This is not intended to be a "news and events" digest. Navigation to Main Sections: :: Week in Review :: Key Agency/IGO/Governments Watch :: INGO/Consortia/Joint Initiatives Watch::: Foundation/Major Donor Watch :: Journal Watch :::::: :::::: Social Protection – Food Security Strategies The 1.5 Billion People Question: Food, Vouchers or Cash Transfers? World Bank Group, 2018 :: 341 pages Editors: Harold Alderman, Ugo Gentilini, and Ruslan Yemtsov PDF: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/27907/9781464810879.pdf Preface [Excerpts] …Understanding the pivotal role of food security is, therefore, central to any poverty response. Food security strategies have traditionally centered on enhancing agricultural production and productivity. This has yielded enormous benefits for farmers and communities across the world. And yet, providing access to food—or the purchasing power to access available commodities— remains a key challenge for social protection, one that both fast-paced urbanization and the current wave of famines underscore even further. It is against such a backdrop that this book explores how to genuinely integrate the agendas of social protection and food assistance. To be clear: over the past decades, efforts to introduce, expand, and upgrade social protection systems in low- and middle-income countries primarily revolved around cash transfers—and for good reasons. At the same time, about 1.5 billion people worldwide have been covered by in-kind food programs, 1 billion of whom live in countries examined in this volume. In-kind transfers have been a key vehicle to provide income support to poor consumers; but, on average, they have often done so at high cost and as part of broader agricultural support and food price risk management efforts… The book provides a long-awaited and very much-needed analysis on such a shift: when viewed through the lenses of history, countries are increasingly moving from in-kind provisions to cash- based transfers, often with vouchers as an intermediate step. Yet this process is far from straightforward, and it is checkered by the bumpy and erratic pathways of evolution. In particular, the book argues that many of the precursors of current cash transfer programs were in-kind measures and that such measures are still relevant in certain circumstances. The volume’s analysis—one at the intersection of economics, political economy, politics, sociology, and history— would help debunk some long-standing myths about food assistance, highlight the complex and intertwined objectives pursued by well-intentioned food programs, and identify insightful lessons from reform processes that are, regrettably, seldom available internationally. Part of the success in answering the 1.5 billion people question would hinge on our prior mindset toward both interventions. To this end, we hope this book will contribute to efforts to move away from the traps of ideology that have sometimes stifled policy debates and instead help to embrace a systemwide, pragmatic, and evidence-based approach to different social protection measures. Michal Rutkowski Senior Director, Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice The World Bank Group Media Release Food Assistance Remains a Critical Safety Net for the Poor and Vulnerable WASHINGTON, September 28, 2017 –With 1.5 billion people covered globally, food and voucher programs provide an important lifeline for the poor and vulnerable. Understanding how those Navigation to Main Sections: :: Week in Review :: Key Agency/IGO/Governments Watch :: INGO/Consortia/Joint Initiatives Watch::: Foundation/Major Donor Watch :: Journal Watch programs work, and how they connect to wider social protection systems is key to ensuring food security and helping the poor, says a new World Bank report. Social protection systems include programs that help manage shocks, connect vulnerable people to jobs, and address poverty and food insecurity. Food, which claims about 61 percent of the poor’s expenditures, is a pressing daily concern for people at the bottom of the income ladder. An effective food-based social assistance program can make a critical difference and help release household resources for other needs. The study – The 1.5 Billion People Question: Food, Vouchers or Cash Transfers? --reveals that while countries increasingly support people with cash as a form of safety net, food-based programs are still important interventions in some contexts. The analysis highlights how food and voucher programs remain relevant, and in most circumstances, have improved over time… Case studies of programs in six countries, namely Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and the United States are presented in the study. Although these include middle- and high-income countries, the lessons are relevant to lower-income countries as well. :::::: :::::: Humanitarian Response – Standards Humanitarian standards now available on mobile devices 27 September 2017 | Sphere Project Six humanitarian standards bearers announce the launch of a joint mobile application. The new Humanitarian Standards Partnership (HSP) application provides the humanitarian sector's flagship standards and guidance in a single, free-of-charge app. Designed for field practitioners providing humanitarian aid in disaster and conflict situations, the app works on- and off-line on mobile phones and tablets. "We are delighted at the launch of this app, which will first and foremost support practitioners working in disaster zones with limited or no connectivity," says Sphere Executive Director Christine Knudsen. "This app is a proof of concept that coordinated action between standards-setting bodies allows us to influence humanitarian response for the better; we hope it will help build greater ownership by individuals, communities, and organisations," she adds. The HSPapp includes the Humanitarian Charter, the Protection Principles, the Core Humanitarian Standard and humanitarian standards for key areas of humanitarian response including: water supply, hygiene and sanitation; shelter and non-food items; food security and nutrition; health action; child protection; education; livestock management; market analysis and economic recovery. "Two of the top strategic priorities for the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action are sector integration and localization," says Audrey Bollier, coordinator for the Alliance. "The HSPapp will make the humanitarian standards, including those for child protection, more accessible to frontline workers and clarify our various interlinkages to immensely facilitate that work." Navigation to Main Sections: :: Week in Review :: Key Agency/IGO/Governments Watch :: INGO/Consortia/Joint Initiatives Watch::: Foundation/Major Donor Watch :: Journal Watch All content in the app is available in English, with some standards also accessible in French and Spanish; other languages will be added progressively. The app is available for free from the Apple App Store, Google Play and soon also from the Microsoft Store… :::::: :::::: Education World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education's Promise 2018 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 240 pages e-ISBN: 978-1-4648-1098-5 DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1096-1 Media Release World Bank warns of 'learning crisis' in global education
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