Maternal Health Spending Data Plentiful, but not the Whole Picture
Canada has pledged a total of $2.85B toward improving maternal, newborn and child health until 2015 By Trinh Theresa Do, CBC News The federal government has posted plenty of information about its...
View Article‘Fragmented’ Maternal Health Aid Data a Step Away from Accountability
Published in CBC News By Trinh Theresa Do When it comes to the Muskoka Initiative — Canada’s much-lauded effort to push global action on maternal and child health — the Conservative government has...
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NSI Senior Researcher Aniket Bhushan on Kevin Newman Live on MNCH
NSI Senior Researcher Aniket Bhushan on Kevin Newman Live to discuss Canada’s Muskoka-MNCH initiative. The discussion begins at 25 minute mark.
View ArticleBeyond the Millennium Development Goals: Where will Canada’s focus be?
Published in iPolitics By Michelle Zilio As Canada prepares its plans for the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) agenda, experts are divided on where the government should focus its aid...
View ArticleGoals for Reducing Deaths of Mothers, Children are within Reach
Published in The Globe and Mail by KIM MACKRAEL International targets for significantly reducing the number of mothers and children who die every year are within arm’s reach, Canada’s International...
View ArticleThe Muskoka Initiative and Global Health Financing
This policy brief offers a preliminary data analysis of Canada’s Muskoka MNCH health financing initiative, placing the same in the wider context of global health financing. The analysis sheds light on...
View ArticleOttawa’s Maternal Health Push a Key Move for Post-2015 Agenda
Published in CBC News By Trinh Theresa Do As Canada’s maternal, newborn and child health summit — the first of its kind — kicks off today, the Conservative government might very well pat itself on the...
View ArticleKnowledge Translation Officer
Knowledge Translation Officer (1 year contract) at $45 000 plus benefits The North-South Institute, Canada’s leading international development think tank, is looking for a dynamic Knowledge Translation...
View ArticleQuantitative Researcher
Objective: The North-South Institute is seeking a qualified individual with extensive statistical experience, including working with official nationally produced data in Canada, to support the...
View ArticlePeople-powered Accountability: Innovative Ideas for Monitoring Progress...
The Fourth Biennial High-level Meeting of the Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) took place at the UN headquarters in New York on 10 – 11 July 2014. A range of stakeholders had the opportunity to...
View ArticlePromoting Ethics when Partnering with the Private Sector for Development
This report presents a review of ethics in OECD-DAC and UN policies for partnership with the private sector. The report seeks to identify which ethical principles have been, or can be, applied to...
View ArticleSocial Cohesion & Community Based Protection
How do groups at the community level protect women, youth, and children while promoting social cohesion, resilience and general human security? Do informal or formal groups influence communities...
View ArticleThe North-South Institute Announces Closure
The Board of Directors of The North-South Institute (NSI) has made the challenging decision to close its doors. While the Board recognizes the valuable contribution the NSI could make to the future of...
View ArticleCoffee Sector Gender Workshop
This report summarizes presentations made at a half-day technical workshop hosted at the National Coffee Federation (FNC) in Bogota on July 22, 2014. A group of speakers participated in the workshop...
View ArticleSocial Cohesion and Community Based Protection – Phase 1 Study Report
This report begins to address social cohesion and community based protection by investigating to what extent current mechanisms, including education and natural resources, impacts social cohesion at...
View ArticleThe North-South Institute: The Way Forward
Purpose The new Board of Directors is seeking input on proposed elements of a Mission Statement for the North-South Institute moving forward and on how to realize that mission. The Back-Story The...
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