For the most excluded racial and ethnic communities, the current limits to freedom are not the first, evidence of this include other pandemics, poverty, and forced displacement. In the context of COVID-19, we have recognized that structural racism is one of the most significant challenges for the global agenda, along with the climate crisis and violence against women and children.
The social isolation caused by school closures due to COVID-19 could have devastating consequences for children and adolescents and puts their mental health and their socio-emotional and cognitive development at risk.
Never let a good crisis go to waste. It is an opportunity to do the things you once thought were impossible.
Rahm Emanuel
When considering the reopening of schools, four key sanitary criteria should be
considered to ensure that students and teachers alike are safe:
A. Ensure social distancing;
B. Keep schools clean and disinfected;
C. Ensure that students and teachers enter school healthy and stay healthy; and
D. Provide easy access to hand washing facilities.
This brochure summarizes key information for speaking the same language for digital solutions in public health emergencies. It introduces different types of digital interventions such as; crisis communication and engaging the public, epidemiological intelligence, clinical management for COVID-19 cases and remote services, management of the public private health systems response, health data management and analysis, and systems for recovery and returning to the new normal. Furthermore, the document answers what do we need in order to implement digital solutions.
Desirée Denaro is a Project Assistant at Scholas Occurrentes – an educational nonprofit organization led by Pope Francis that promotes training projects around the world. Scholas links technology with art and engages sport to promote social integration and culture gatherings in search for peace.
The guidelines, addressed to team leaders and executors, explain how buildings, both of social infrastructure and other sectors, can contribute to meeting the 30% goal of climate financing that the IDB Group has set for the year 2020. These guidelines outline those mitigation and adaptation measures to climate change that can be incorporated and accounted for in Bank projects that include design, improvement and / or construction of buildings.
This Breve gives an overview of the characteristics of the pharmaceutical sector in Mexico and the main factors resulting in the decision to establish the CCPNM. It briefly discusses the legal framework of the Commission. Then, it looks at the CCPNM's objective and operations, before describingthe negotiation process. The results of the CCPNM in economic and organizational terms, as well as other positive impacts, are analyzed in the subsequent section.
Entry by Elena Arias Ortiz, Andrea Bergamaschi, Marcelo Pérez Alfaro, Madiery Vásquez and Miguel Brechner.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a unique occasion to promote equality of opportunities and improve the quality of life of all people of Latin America and the Caribbean. Beyond its techno-logical possibilities, the responsible and human-centered use of AI is essential, although it also poses major challenges. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) advocates building a shared understanding of AI, its possibilities, and its uses, as well as its risks and the potential actions to mitigate them.