Bocaccio and the COVID-19: Disability in the days of The Plague

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Looking for stuff to do during the quarantine, I played the Decameron audiobook, remembering that it was about the Black Death. I thought I could find something on how people with disabilities were dealt with during the XIV century. I found it fascinating. It´s as if not a day had gone by since that March in 1348. Like today, the leading actor in the Western World was Italy, and it was also rumored that the virus was some kind of curse that came from “the East”:

Playful learning for families: the Jamaican home visiting model going to scale…in Jamaica!

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The Jamaican Home Visiting intervention strengthens parents’ abilities to use responsive interactions and play to help their children develop well. The intervention has substantial benefits to children’s development and is the first early childhood stimulation program in low and middle-income countries to show long term benefits of play for adult education, income, and well-being.

Women in Latin America and The Caribbean face greater risks from coronavirus

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Have you wondered why?

 

As the coronavirus crisis hits Latin America and the Caribbean, in the midst of International Women’s Month, have you wondered what consequences this pandemic can have in terms of gender in the region? Acknowledging to what extent this health crisis affects women and men differently, is essential to truly understand its effects on people, an implement policies and interventions that are effective and equitable.

Why are economists so interested in ECD and what can they contribute to the field?

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Traditionally, economists have focused on how to improve productivity and the ability to generate income by adult workers. But in the last two decades, the percentage of economists who work in the development of our youngest has been growing. The reason? Find out in this article.

External Measurement as a Catalyst for Change in a Regional Results-Based Aid Initiative - The Salud Mesoamerica Experience

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Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI) is an ambitious regional results-based aid initiative in Mesoamerica that ties a portion of donor funding to the achievement of externally measured maternal, newborn and child health results—at both the micro/service-delivery and macro/population levels—in the participating countries’ poorest municipalities. SMI relies exclusively on independent (external) teams to measure results which determine funding approval. In contrast, other results-based financing initiatives typically determine payment through self-reported results that are verified.

Not Your Cookie-Cutter Results-Based Aid Initiative: Salud Mesoamerica Initiative’s Experience Improving Health for the Poorest in Mesoamerica

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Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI) is a unique results-based aid initiative that rewards countries for achieving health targets in the poorest municipalities in Mesoamerica. A partnership between private and public donors and governments, it offers lessons for philanthropists, corporate social responsibility teams, and bilateral donors about how to alter development assistance from the usual model of paying for inputs to a new one in which countries are paid for achieving results for their poorest populations.

External Measurement as a Catalyst for Change in a Regional Results-Based Aid Initiative - The Salud Mesoamerica Experience

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Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI) is an ambitious regional results-based aid initiative in Mesoamerica that ties a portion of donor funding to the achievement of externally measured maternal, newborn and child health results—at both the micro/service-delivery and macro/population levels—in the participating countries’ poorest municipalities. SMI relies exclusively on independent (external) teams to measure results which determine funding approval. In contrast, other results-based financing initiatives typically determine payment through self-reported results that are verified.

Not Your Cookie-Cutter Results-Based Aid Initiative: Salud Mesoamerica Initiative’s Experience Improving Health for the Poorest in Mesoamerica

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Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI) is a unique results-based aid initiative that rewards countries for achieving health targets in the poorest municipalities in Mesoamerica. A partnership between private and public donors and governments, it offers lessons for philanthropists, corporate social responsibility teams, and bilateral donors about how to alter development assistance from the usual model of paying for inputs to a new one in which countries are paid for achieving results for their poorest populations.

Schools and coronavirus – three urgent challenges and one necessary transformation

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The current spread of coronavirus poses a major public health challenge to every country in the world. Schools and their administrators may be the next in line to face the test, as these institutions have traditionally been a key channel of contagion of all sorts of illnesses.

It’s hand-washing time! How behavioral economics could mitigate the spread of coronavirus

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With nearly 210,000 confirmed cases and 8,650 deaths in at least 166 countries or territories, COVID-19, also known as coronavirus, has become the latest threat both to human health and the global economy. With no vaccine against the disease to date, prevention looks like the only available option to mitigate the spread of the virus.

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