As southeastern Myanmar opens to international health and development interventions, implementing agencies should consider militarization as a determinant of health and design interventions that can mediate its effects.
Many of us who work in international development are suspicious of interventions that are not exclusively data-driven, preferring quantitative analysis to the subjective nature of storytelling.
The Communication Initiative The Communication Initiative is a partnership of development organizations seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for positive international development, including immunization.
The evaluation, which is summative in character, was aimed at demonstrating accountability as well as at distilling good practices and lessons learned that could be useful to other development interventions at national and international level.
The intervention by Andrew Mitchell, the former international development secretary, and the granting of the debate itself, will force the UK's Foreign Office to set out how it intends to respond after Russia's veto of a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire in eastern Aleppo.
Our team – from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Nairobi, Muungano Support Trust and Slum Dwellers International – have seen tens of well-intentioned 'public health' and development interventions that, for instance, might build a community toilet block.
The international development community has recognized the need to scale up nutrition interventions; the potential for public-private partnerships, and there is consensus around a common framework for action.
