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Philanthrocapitalism in global health and nutrition: analysis and implications
“Large global foundations play an...active role in shaping the global development agenda and in setting the funding priorities for international institutions and national governments alike… This discussion paper is an executive summary of a forthcoming article by Nicoletta Dentico (Health Innovation in Practice) and Karolin Seitz (Global Policy Forum).” (Dentico and Seitz, 2018).
Spotlight on Sustainable Development
This report summarizes focuses “on cross-cutting policy reform areas that demonstrate the interlinkages between various SDGs, the need to ‘de-silo’ current policy approaches, and to promote policies that are genuinely coherent in the interest of sustainable development, human rights and gender justice” (Civil Society Reflection Group, 2018).
Connections 2018: Experiments in Organizational Innovation
"The 2018 issue of Connections… focuses on experiments in organizational innovation… The issue highlights innovations in organizational forms intended to encourage the development of networks of self-directed experimentation and learning. Some authors explore ways to change the protocols of existing institutions, and others describe designs of new forms of organizations" (Matthews et. al., 2018).
Surviving the Storm: Liberal Democracy in Times of Change
"Society is caught up in a whirlwind of change. The power of liberal democracies is dwindling and the political balance in the world is shifting. An interview with Ralf Fücks on what to expect from the renewed grand coalition in Germany, and how to defend liberal democracy in times of anti-liberal revolt" (Fücks, 2018).
Parliament and the people
"The report provides an analysis of the data and digital landscapes of four case study countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda), and interrogates how digital channels are being used in those countries to create and disseminate information on parliamentary activity" (Rumbul 2018).
Participatory Budgeting
"This research identified significant challenges in the participatory budgeting sphere... The migration to managing participatory budgeting digitally presents the very real risk of the process becoming gentrified, and is just one example of the consequences of scale in participatory budgeting only being achieved at the expense of disenfranchising the most under-represented" (Rumbul, Parsons, and Bramley, 2018).
Towards Elections with Integrity
"This policy brief… proposes… monitoring of the political processes leading up to polling day; improving collaboration with observers at a local level; strengthening the role played by civil society; setting stronger guidelines for the digital arena; developing guidelines for technology used; striking a new balance between the observation missions’ technical and political mandates" (Martinelli, 2018).
Political Participation of Refugees: Bridging the Gaps
This report focuses on eight host countries—Germany, Kenya, Lebanon, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda and the United Kingdom—and five countries of origin: Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and Syria. It offers comparative analysis on different mechanisms for formal and non-formal political participation.
Applying Behavioral Insights To Support Immigrant Integration And Social Cohesion
This report examines how “mentoring programmes and volunteering opportunities could also be used to encourage eligible immigrants to naturalise, and citizenship ceremonies could be made more meaningful by encouraging existing citizens to attend and connect with new citizens” (Benton, Silva, and Somerville, 2018).
What Comes Next? Lessons For The Recovery of Liberal Democracy
"In declining order of direct comparison" the authors "looked at cases of democratic decline and subsequent renewal" in several areas and "also looked at the similarities and differences between these states and countries that faced executive degradation and have not yet recovered, particularly Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and Venezuela" (Kleinfeld and Solimini, 2018).
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