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1812. No Money, No NAP: Manual for Costing and Budgeting National Action Plans on UNSCR 1325
- Author:
- Mavic Cabrera-Balleza and Agnieszka Fal Dutra Santos
- Publication Date:
- 01-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
- Abstract:
- The United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 1325 was adopted in the year 2000, thanks to sustained women’s rights and peace activism from around the world. At its core lies women’s meaningful participation in peace negotiations, post-conflict peacebuilding, conflict-prevention, peacekeeping operations and humanitarian planning. We know that women’s contributions to effective implementation of resolution 1325 and its supporting resolutions - UNSCR 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960 (2010), 2106 (2103), and 2242 (2015) - are essential for a more peaceful and equal world and the achievement of all of the Sustainable Development Goals. These collective ambitions are more important than ever, as we mark the 17th anniversary of resolution 1325 amidst continuing conflict and insecurity in many countries around the world. Yet, translating these resolutions into practical action on the ground remains challenging, with a persistent gap between commitments and actual political and financial support. Sixty-eight countries have so far adopted National Action Plans (NAPs) to implement UNSCR 1325 and supporting resolutions, but only 16 out of 68 NAPs have a dedicated budget. NAP implementation will only be possible when the funding is provided. Political will must be supported by targeted financial and other resources.
- Topic:
- Gender Issues, United Nations, Women, Sustainable Development Goals, Peace, and UN Security Council
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
1813. The World Drug PERCEPTION Problem: Countering Prejudices About People Who Use Drugs
- Author:
- Global Commission On Drug Policy
- Publication Date:
- 11-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Global Commission On Drug Policy
- Abstract:
- Drug policy reforms have been difficult to design, legislate or implement because current policies and responses are often based on perceptions and passionate beliefs, and what should be factual discussions leading to effective policies are frequently treated as moral debates. The present report aims to analyze the most common perceptions and fears, contrast them with available evidence on drugs and the people who use them, and provides recommendations on changes that must be enacted to support reforms toward more effective drug policies.
- Topic:
- Crime, Health, War on Drugs, Drugs, Public Health, and Criminology
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
1814. NOT THE USUAL SUSPECTS: Engaging Male Champions of Women, Peace and Security
- Author:
- Jolynn Shoemaker and Sahana Dharmapuri
- Publication Date:
- 09-2017
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Our Secure Future
- Abstract:
- Men who participated in this study highlighted the transformational potential of Women, Peace and Security to redefine how the international community conceptualizes and approaches security. • Among male champions of Women, Peace and Security there is a common view that current institutions and approaches are failing to achieve peace and security and that it is time for change. There is a recognition that gender forms a foundational pillar of social justice and that it is impossible to achieve social needs and human potential without addressing gender.
- Topic:
- Security, Women, Peace, Men, and WPS
- Political Geography:
- United States and Global Focus
1815. DESIGNING OUR SECURE FUTURE: Inaugural Convening, Ottawa, Canada
- Publication Date:
- 01-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Our Secure Future
- Abstract:
- Our Secure Future (OSF) believes that women’s full participation in society makes the crucial difference in achieving more effective governance and lasting peace. OSF aims to strengthen the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) movement by amplifying women’s voices, strengthening the global network of women peacebuilders, and promoting committed action by multiple stakeholders to turn policy into practice. Founded in 2016 with a mission to strengthen the Women, Peace and Security movement to enable effective policy-related decision-making for a more just and peaceful world, we set out to understand how best to achieve our vision of achieving a more peaceful future transformed by women’s full participation. After a series of consultations with multiple stakeholders in the WPS field during the summer and fall of 2016, we found that the issues of developing a shared vision for the Women, Peace and Security agenda and collaborating on common narratives were recurrently named as being critical to making progress in this field. The overwhelming feedback pointed to the nee
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, Gender Issues, Women, and WPS
- Political Geography:
- United States and Global Focus
1816. Paying for Prescription Drugs Around the World: Why Is the U.S. an Outlier?
- Author:
- Shawn Bishop, David Squires, and Dana O. Sarnak
- Publication Date:
- 10-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- The Commonwealth Fund
- Abstract:
- arious factors contribute to high per capita drug spending in the U.S. While drug utilization appears to be similar in the U.S. and the nine other countries considered, the prices at which drugs are sold in the U.S. are substantially higher. These price differences appear to at least partly explain current and historical disparities in spending on pharmaceutical drugs. U.S. consumers face particularly high out-of-pocket costs, both because the U.S. has a large uninsured population and because cost-sharing requirements for those with coverage are more burdensome than in other countries. Most Americans support reducing pharmaceutical costs. International experience demonstrates that policies like universal health coverage, insurance benefit design that restricts out-of-pocket spending, and certain price control strategies, like centralized price negotiations, can be effective.
- Topic:
- Health, Health Care Policy, and Drugs
- Political Geography:
- United States, Europe, and Global Focus
1817. Designing a High-Performing Health Care System for Patients with Complex Needs: Ten Recommendations for Policymakers
- Publication Date:
- 09-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- The Commonwealth Fund
- Abstract:
- Health care costs are heavily concentrated among people with multiple health problems. Often, these are older adults living with frailty, advanced illness, or other complex conditions. In 2014, the New York–based Commonwealth Fund, a private, independent foundation, established the International Experts Working Group on Patients with Complex Needs through a grant to the London School of Economics and Political Science. The group’s purpose was to outline the prerequisites of a high-performing health care system for “high-need, high-cost” patients and to identify promising international innovations in health care delivery for meeting needs of these patients. Drawing on international experience, quantitative and qualitative evidence, and its members’ collective expertise in policy and program design, implementation, and evaluation, the international working group sought to articulate the principles that underpin high performance for this complex population in health systems around the world.
- Topic:
- Health and Health Care Policy
- Political Geography:
- United States and Global Focus
1818. Mirror, Mirror 2017: International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities fo
- Author:
- Michelle M. Doty, Arnav Shah, David Squires, Dana O. Sarnak, and Eric C. Schneider
- Publication Date:
- 07-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- The Commonwealth Fund
- Abstract:
- The U.S. ranked last on performance overall, and ranked last or near last on the Access, Administrative Efficiency, Equity, and Health Care Outcomes domains. The top-ranked countries overall were the U.K., Australia, and the Netherlands. Based on a broad range of indicators, the U.S. health system is an outlier, spending far more but falling short of the performance achieved by other high-income countries. The results suggest the U.S. health care system should look at other countries’ approaches if it wants to achieve an affordable high-performing health care system that serves all Americans.
- Topic:
- Health and Health Care Policy
- Political Geography:
- United States and Global Focus
1819. International Profiles of Health Care Systems
- Author:
- Elias Mossialos, Ana Djordjevic, Robin Osborn, and Dana O. Sarnak
- Publication Date:
- 05-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- The Commonwealth Fund
- Abstract:
- This publication presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United States. Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization and governance, health care quality and coordination, disparities, efficiency and integration, use of information technology and evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations. In addition, summary tables provide data on a number of key health system characteristics and performance indicators, including overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, patient safety, care coordination, chronic care management, disease prevention, capacity for quality improvement, and public views.
- Topic:
- Health and Health Care Policy
- Political Geography:
- United States and Global Focus
1820. The Dynamics of Africa in World Affairs: From Afro-Pessimism to Afro-Optimism?
- Author:
- Sharkdam Wapmuk and Oluwatooni Akinkwotu
- Publication Date:
- 12-2017
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Brazilian Journal of African Studies
- Institution:
- Brazilian Journal of African Studies
- Abstract:
- The article argues that Africa has never existed apart from world politics, but has been inevitably entangled in the dynamics and flow of events and changing configurations of global power. Historical records have clearly confirmed that there have been contacts, interactions and a flow of both ideas and goods between Africa, Europe, Asia and Americas. Whether the continent’s historical contacts and interactions with the rest of the world have been a ‘curse or blessing’ has been a subject of serious debate (Adekaye 2010). African affairs have contributed in shaping the world and Africa in turn, has been, and is still being shaped by international processes and structures. The study of Africa in world affairs has no doubt attracted scholarly interest. However, most studies on the continent, especially in the past two decades tend to focused on the negative narrative - crisis, war, poverty, natural disasters, corruption, diseases and famine, criminality, environmental degradation, mismanagement of natural resources and crisis of governance (Zartman 1995). Some even completely wrote-off the continent as a ‘hopeless case’, ‘dark continent’, and ‘the world’s burden’ (The Economist 2000). Africans have strongly resisted such narrative that tends to dismiss historical realities of Africa’s rape through slavery, colonialism, economic dependency and continued dominance by the international institutions of global governance (World Bank, IMF and WTO) and external involvement and influence of the great powers on the continent.
- Topic:
- International Relations, Power Politics, and Global Political Economy
- Political Geography:
- Africa and Global Focus