Posted by Ruwaida Salem, Senior Technical Writer, K4Health and Steve Goldstein, Senior Consultant, K4Health on Friday, May 17th 2013

During the month of May, IMPACT will be highlighting USAID’s work in Global Health. From May 11-17, we will be featuring the important role of mothers and partnerships in Global Health.

This publication advocates for persons with disabilities to become active participants, and not to be overlooked in relief and response actions.

Purpose of the Guide

Submitted by Inci Otker-Robe

Fragile and conflict-affected countries confront some of the most extreme risks and constraints to their management that, if unaddressed, could create a vicious cycle of poverty, fragility, and conflict with far-reaching implications beyond these states. A well-balanced and collective approach to risk and opportunity can build on the progress made toward better development results going forward.

The new treaty will need to take on a number of emerging risks and concerns, such as the effects of the changing climate and growing urban populations.

From 22 April to 3 May 2013, the SADC Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre (SADC RPTC) held a Peace Support Operations Course for senior police officers in Harare – Zimbabwe in which ACCORD participated by facilitating key sessions. The course objectives were to prepare 21 SADC Senior police officers in rebuilding national Police capacity in a peacekeeping environment and with due respect for human rights and humanitarian law. The course also aimed to enhance the participants' skills in creating effective partnerships with national counterparts, civil society and international actors.

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Strong biosecurity measures needed to contain bird flu Implementing strong biosecurity measures coupled with good hygiene are required to contain the spread of the H7N9 strain of avian influenza virus, Hiroyuki Konuma, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific told a press conference in Bangkok on April 11. The virus had infected 82 people and killed 17 in China by April 19.

PARIS, 15 May 2013 – An international conference to fight child malnutrition called by UNICEF ended today in Paris with a call to hasten world progress on child nutrition and the funding for it.

“The Paris conference produced a very strong consensus on responses to be made. It also marked an important step in expressing the political will to attack this scourge by governments, both in the South and the North,” said Michèle Barzach, the President of UNICEF France.

By Chris Niles

NEW YORK, United States of America, 14 May 2013 – Gender equality and education will be critical in planning the development agenda that succeeds the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning Amina Mohammed.

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