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DEVEX NEWSWIRE July 14, 2020
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NEWSWIRE July 14, 2020
Hi Devex readers,
Where do climate finance efforts stand? And how are they changing during the pandemic? Today we're kicking off a new series for Pro subscribers on just that: The Climate Finance Challenge. First up, what you need to know about the data (Pro).
Today's online event: Using data to advance women and girls' education post-pandemic at 11 a.m. ET (5 p.m. CET).
TODAY'S TOP STORY
Climate funding: What you need to know about the data Climate funding: About the data For Pro members only 'One of the things I find difficult getting my head around is how these numbers don't match up to what is reported by countries on their climate financing.' — Sinead Dwyer, SEEK Development
Loosely defined terminology and timelines are some of the biggest barriers in determining if climate finance goals will be reached — like high-income countries' commitment to mobilize $100 billion in climate finance, annually, by 2020.
What's included in climate finance data? Who are the players and what are the challenges? Data Reporter Lisa Cornish consults data trackers, philanthropic organizations, and even the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, to find out.
Here are the challenges behind the data.
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YOUR HEADLINES
World hunger numbers rise for 5th straight year. The 2020 'State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World' report finds that the Sustainable Development Goal 2 will remain out of reach if drastic steps are not taken to reduce hunger and all forms of malnutrition.
+ From the Pro archives: Q&A: How innovation can help end hunger with Bernhard Kowatsch, head of the World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator.
Missing life-saving vaccinations. Overall service loss in individual countries for women, children, and adolescents varies from 10% to 60%, according to the Independent Accountability Panel on Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent, which released its findings Monday.
Streamlining malnutrition treatments. Combining U.N. agencies' severe and moderate acute malnutrition treatments into a simplified protocol costs $123 less per child, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine — and is as effective.
The World Bank's green recovery action plan. There are a number of actions the bank can take to address the coronavirus and climate catastrophes at the same time, writes Ladd Connell, environment director at the Bank Information Center, in this op-ed. Here are the top five.
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Q&A: How data can stop women from going hungry
The World Food Programme's Jacqueline Paul discusses how an intersectional approach to the collection and analysis of data can help break stubborn links between women’s hunger, disempowerment, and inequality. This is part of our Gender Data content series.
https://pages.devex.com/empowering-health-workers-series.html
IN OTHER NEWS
The U.K. Disasters Emergency Committee, made up of the country's 14 leading charities, on Tuesday launched a fundraising appeal to the British public to help some of the world's most fragile areas cope with the pandemic. [BBC]
Pakistan will resume its polio immunization campaign next week, four months after the pandemic halted the country's vaccination efforts. [The Telegraph]
WHO has confirmed 48 new cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Equateur province, only weeks after declaring the outbreak in Ituri and North Kivu provinces over. [Al Jazeera]
Only five of 24 NGOs and U.N. agencies surveyed confirmed they had dealt with racism concerns, while the rest either declined to provide data, could not provide clear data, or received no reports of racism against staff. [Thomson Reuters Foundation]
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