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Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy in Somalia about Health, requiring 10+ years of experience, from World Vision; closing on 23 Jun 2021

While commending the government for increasing the budget allocation to early childhood development (ECD) from K803 million in the 2019/2020 budget to K3 billion in the 2020/2021 budget, WaterAid Malawi contends that the allocation still falls short of the MGDS III’s recommended K4.9 billion allocation. In a statement, WaterAid’s coordinator for policy & sector engagement, Lloyd Mtalimanja says this is especially concerning in that “although Government surpassed the MGDS III’s target for budget allocation to the Education & Skills Development sector by about 75% in the 2020/2021 budge...

Dr.  Mensah, Isaac Sesi, and Peter Bismark Kowfie to Speak at the Opportunity Summit in Ghana By Barbara Ofosu || Africa Campus Convenor LISTEN MAR 17, 2021 The unemployment situation among young Africans is creating vulnerabilities and destroying hopes and dreams for the future. The growing number of youths including graduates exceeds job availability. This situation is common among most countries within Sub-Sahara Africa. Creating prosperity and eradicating poverty are best achieved through entrepreneurship. Given this, Opportunity Summit is the event that seeks to ignite a creative w...

Universal ‘test and treat’ an economically efficient strategy to help control HIV epidemic in southern Africa Universal ‘test and treat’ an economically efficient strategy to help control HIV epidemic in southern Africa 13 March 2021 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png Package of HIV prevention methods can be delivered through community health workers at scale for a low-cost Share A package of HIV preventi...

Weekly links March 12: Even more DiD, deforestation lowers productivity, how to procrastinate productively, and more… ·       A couple of follow-ups to Scott Cunningham’s Mixtape book. First, Thomas Caputo has created python code for the book (to complement the Stata and R code already available). Second, Scott has started a substack he is calling the Remix, which will have deep dives into more methods papers – starting with a discussion of the Callaway and Sant’anna difference-in-differences with multiple time periods paper. ·       If you want a nice illustration of wh...