"The most successful national responses to COVID-19 have been those which have engaged with local communities to build resilient health systems and inform service delivery, decision-making and governance to meet the needs of communities."
"Evidence suggests gender transformative interventions that foster gender equitable norms and behaviors among men while challenging dominant, negative notions of masculinity can be effective in preventing violence."
Grandmother Project (GMP) - Change through Culture In Africa when an elder person dies it is as though a whole library had burned down. - Malian philosopher Amadou Hampate Ba In non-Western cultures, elders play a central role in socialising younger generations, in passing on indigenous knowledge and cultural values, and in ensuring the stability and survival of their societies. However, development programmes often narrowly focus on youth and exclude elders, thereby failing to account for - and even offending - local cultures where elders role is still very much valued. In that context, this paper: calls attention to the incongruity between policies and programmes that aim to promote the development of non-western societies, on the one hand, and the socio-cultural infrastructure and values of such communities, on the other; discusses the neglected role of elders and of intergenerational learning as cultural resources for mobilising change and preserving social cohesion; and pr
".one of the important stakeholders that can possibly play a role in the propagation of open data or open government data is journalists." This report from the Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) aims to present the current situation of open data access and data journalism in Bangladesh.
Grandmother Project (GMP) - Change through Culture Collective responsibility for raising children has clear implications for newborn research and interventions, however, it is consistently overlooked in global health frameworks and interventions which narrowly focus on biological parents and offspring. In recognition that the family environment in which newborns begin life is critical to their health and survival, non-western cultures confer advisory and caregiving roles on different family members around new mothers. However, as this paper argues, ageism, sexism, and Western ideals of the nuclear family have excluded grandmothers from national and international policy initiatives to save newborn lives in the Global South. The paper provides examples of research from contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that illustrate the need to embrace the role and influence of senior women, or grandmothers, in newborn care.