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  • What Will Change at the World Bank Mean for Climate Policy?

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 27, 2023  //  By Mariel Ferragamo
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    World Bank President David Malpass announced his resignation in mid-February 2023, and will step down by June 2023—about a year before finishing his five-year term. As several public officials indicated after the announcement, the climate legacy Malpass leaves behind is lacking. Indeed, the Bank itself has also been under scrutiny with recent calls for reform on climate finance.

    The Biden Administration quickly announced Ajay Banga as their nominee in mid-February. If confirmed, Banga will step into this role in a high-profile moment, and his own stance on climate issues is already under close examination.

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  • The UN Water Conference and Latin American Transboundary Waters: A Case for Better Governance

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 21, 2023  //  By Alexander Lopez
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    In recent decades, the international system has undergone profound changes—especially in terms of the types of threats that destabilize international peace and security. As new threats emerge, a focus on new dimensions of the concept of security is now reaching the top of the international agenda. In this context, the global freshwater crisis is beginning to be perceived as an existential threat to states requiring extraordinary measures to alleviate or solve the problem.

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  • Climate, Poverty, Democracy: What Is at Stake in Nigeria’s 2023 Election?

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    Guest Contributor  //  February 23, 2023  //  By Adenike Oladosu
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    On February 25, Nigeria will hold its presidential election. The stakes of this ballot could not be any higher—especially for the climate. Climate change is an existential and current reality in Nigeria, and the coming decade will be crucial to meet the nation’s sustainable development goals. It will take political will to make climate justice a reality, and Nigerians now have the opportunity to choose leaders who will either make or mar the action to address this threat.

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  • No Progress Without Quality: Why Quality of Care Matters

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  February 16, 2022  //  By Chanel Lee

    Midwife Rebecca Aryee washes her hands during a lesson at Cape Coast Midwifery School, Cape Coast, Ghana, on Monday 4 June 2018. Jhpiego has set up a ‘skills lab’ at the Cape Coast midwifery school, and sponsored the development of learning apps to help facilitate the training of new midwives.

    Evidence shows that in low- and middle-income countries, the expansion of health coverage or access to care has not always reduced overall mortality, said Dr. Patricia Jodrey, Child Health Team Lead in the Office of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “However, the analysis also showed that when countries have progressed in improving the quality of their health systems, the survival rate tends to improve,” she said.

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  • COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbates Violence Against Refugee Women and Girls

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  November 24, 2021  //  By Chanel Lee

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    Currently, refugee women and girls are facing three concurrent crises: their ongoing humanitarian crisis, the health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the invisible crisis of gender-based violence (GBV). COVID-19 has severely worsened various dimensions of inequality for refugee women and girls. A 2020 report found that 73 percent of forcibly displaced women interviewed across 15 African countries reported elevated cases of domestic or intimate partner violence due to the pandemic. In addition, 51 percent reported sexual violence and 32 percent observed a rise in early and forced marriages.

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  • Engaging Marginalized Groups is Essential to Achieving Universal Health Coverage

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  July 16, 2021  //  By Sara Matthews

    SRH UHC Podcast - 235 x 176Too often, many in my community are excluded from sexual and reproductive health services, said Ruth Morgan Thomas, co-founder and Global Coordinator of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, in today’s episode of Friday Podcasts. This episode features highlights from a recent Wilson Center and UNFPA event where Thomas and Zandile Simelane, an HIV Youth Advocate from Eswatini, address the barriers that their respective communities—sex workers and HIV positive youth—face in accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and universal health coverage (UHC).

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  • We Have to Put the Last Mile First: Ensuring Sexual and Reproductive Health for All

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  July 7, 2021  //  By Hannah Chosid
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    Whether marginalized populations, such as adolescents, LGBTQ+ people, migrant workers, and sex workers are included in health services can be a “litmus test” of our progress towards universal health coverage (UHC), said Sivananthi Thanenthiran, Executive Director of Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW). Thanenthiran spoke at a recent Wilson Center event with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research about the importance of engaging stakeholders in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) to achieve UHC for all. In SRH services, the most marginalized and most vulnerable populations are often left out, she said. When engaging stakeholders, representatives from these groups must be included to ensure equity in healthcare services.

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  • Vaccines, Family Planning, and Freedom from Violence: Achieving Equity for All Women and Children

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  June 2, 2021  //  By Hannah Chosid

    In Sokoto to see the Immunization program sponsored by JSI and MCSP as well as local partners. Local hospital WCWH, Women and Children Welfare Hospital, where lots of women bringing their children to be vaccinated.  The senior community health worker (in yellow and wearing glasses) is Fasilat Mohammed, CDC NSTOP person. The young women in white are student health workers and those in yellow are health workers.    This hospital is in Ward Sarkinmusulmi. Children were given three vaccines, Polio, BCG (TB) and PENTA VALENT which has five vaccines in it. Shown:  Rukayya Aboulkadia, wearing white but doing the vaccinations is the RI Service provider.  Since it's a centralized hospital people are coming in from all over Sokoto. Giving a vaccination.

    “From birth, from almost from cradle to grave, girls have been seen as some sort of baggage,” said Shamsa Suleiman, Project Management Specialist for Gender and Youth at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Tanzania. Suleiman spoke at a recent Wilson Center event with USAID MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership about balancing power dynamics to achieve equity for all women and children in maternal, child, and adolescent health, and family planning. Home should be a safe space, said Suleiman. But for many girls, it no longer is. To escape the poverty and pressures at home, including early marriage and other forms of gender-based violence, some girls leave, said Suleiman. “Girls are trying to escape the safe spaces.”

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