Justyna Krol @justynakrol Get inspiration from our volunteers and build your own cardboard hostel. By 2015, more than 50 percent of organizations that manage innovation processes will gamify those processes. “Gamification” is a new buzzword sweeping the world. It is a method used to increase people’s engagement and inspire desired behaviour through games. Nongovernmental organizations started… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: March 2012
HIV in Uzbekistan – Prevention and care
Kamola Rasulova, UNDP in Uzbekistan I was recently sifting through last year’s pictures and reports of our UNDP-Global Fund HIV project and I was amazed to see the progress we made and the people we were able to help in a short period of time. And the numbers tell the same story: Over 24,000 people of the most-at-risk… Read more »
Live tweeting and streaming from Jan Vandemoortele’s lecture on poverty in Africa
Jan Szczycinski Will faster economic growth, more foreign aid and better governance guarantee achievement of the Millennium Development Goals? Jan Vandemoortele, closely involved with the creation of the Millennium Development Goals, will challenge this view at the Kapuscinski lecture “Are the 3Gs enough to reduce poverty in Africa? Is it all about Growth, Grants or… Read more »
It’s time to include young people in development
Aziza Umarova, UNDP in Uzbekistan This year is very special. Last month United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced youth as a top priority and promised to address the needs of the largest generation of young people the world has ever known. This includes deepening the youth focus of existing programmes on employment, entrepreneurship, political inclusion, citizenship and protection of rights, and… Read more »
Confessions of a gender specialist
Komila Rakhimova, UNDP in Uzbekistan When I first joined UNDP as gender specialist I was convinced that 100 percent of my time would be spent designing projects to reach government, media, and the general public (See: National Media Campaign : Woman. Born to be Happy). Instead, I spent a lot of time convincing my colleagues why… Read more »
The day my report became a TV show
Aleksandra Visnjic, UNDP in Montenegro Video in Montenegrin language Whenever I organize a focus group for our National Human Development Report survey here in Montenegro, and I watch people, and listen to their stories, I always imagine them on TV. Wouldn’t they make better content than the boring faces and talk we usually get. People like single… Read more »
What is beauty?
Yana Chicherina, UNDP in Uzbekistan One of the worst parts of my student years was studying photographs of people living with disabilities as one of the methods for their evaluation during medical classes. The lecturer was showing us all sorts of ‘deviations’ from a ‘normal human appearance,’ and we were taught it was all evidence of mental… Read more »
Innovation in emerging markets: Evidence from mobile banking
Paul van der Boor @PaulvdBoor In the past years mobile phones have enabled a wave of innovation in financial services. What few people realize is that many of these innovations were pioneered in emerging markets, and often by users, before diffusing to industrialized nations. There is evidence that many of these services were informally pioneered by… Read more »
A review: Social media, accountability and public transparency
Eva Vozárová, Fair-play Alliance Released in the fall of 2011 by UNDP, Social media, accountability and public transparency charts the landscape of social media and Internet services for nongovernmental activities, citizen activism and civic initiatives in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Online activism in Eastern Europe and the environment in which the… Read more »
Are shrinking quotas in Russia pushing migrants into illegal work?
Alisher Juraev and Alessandra Bravi @alessandrabravi According to the latest statement by Konstantin Romodanovskiy, Director of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation, every year 14 million foreign citizens visit Russia: 77 percent are citizens from countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States and 10 percent are European Union nationals (10.8 and 1.4 million people,… Read more »
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