Curated Reports

Mobile Technology’s Promise for Healthcare

Source: GSMA     Report Date: March 2010

Recent developments in embedded mobile technology and devices are beginning to provide a number of important benefits to healthcare organizations, intermediaries and society. As will be discussed in this paper, the benefits are not only information related (i.e. providing patients/ individuals with the necessary information to manage their lifestyle and health), but also and more importantly extending the reach and quality of healthcare services by facilitating more complex operations such as tracking of chronic patients, remote diagnostics and monitoring. Easy to use mHealth devices and applications, and efficient and secure healthcare services will facilitate monitoring of patients and help provide greater value to the patient. Read Full Report
Africa’s development needs

Source: United Nations     Report Date: July 2008

In its resolution 62/242, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit to the high-level meeting on Africa’s development needs a comprehensive report on “Africa’s development needs: state of implementation of various commitments, challenges and the way forward”. The present report is submitted in response to that request and constitutes the background document for the meeting. Read Full Report
Considerations for a New Peacekeeping Operation in South Sudan

Source: STIMSON     Report Date: May 2007

Following the July 9th secession of South Sudan, preventing violence against civilians in the new state and along its northern border will remain a priority — if not the primary challenge — for the international community. South Sudan is rife with conflict. The United Nations’ top aid official in the South reported that 800 people have died in violence, and almost 94,000 people have fled their homes since the start of 2011.1 The secession will raise, not lower, southern Sudanese expectations of the Government of South Sudan (GOSS), despite laws and institutions that are still ill-prepared to meet the challenge. Individuals, communities, militias, and political parties jockeying for resources and political power will be ready and eager to exploit the state’s weaknesses. Read Full Report
Development of Africa in the 1990s

Source: United Nations     Report Date: August 2002

In November 2006 China hosted the Third Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) attended by 48 African countries. This unprecedented high level meeting manifested the increased cooperation between China and Africa in recent years. Undisputedly, Chinese policies, including trade and investments and its role as a donor and creditor, will have an important impact on the future of developing countries in Africa and the joint global challenge to combat poverty. The purpose of this report is to contribute to an increased knowledge and understanding of China’s role in Africa. The target group is foremost Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) across the world engaged in various types of development work. The focus of the report is Chinese development assistance policies, i.e. China’s role as a donor to Africa, an area not so much written on in comparison with trade and investments. The report explores Chinese views on China’s role as an important player in development policies and what responses China has to concerns expressed by external stakeholders about the increased Chinese cooperation with Africa. The report builds on desk studies between March and July 2007, as well as 27 interviews with foremost Chinese decision makers, institutions, organisations and researchers but also donors to both China and Africa, carried out in Beijing March – April 2007. Read Full Report
DRC-Support Community-based Tools for MONUSCO

Source: Refugees International     Report Date: August 2002

In recent years the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) has faced tremendous pressure to improve civilian protection in the volatile and violent eastern provinces of the country. The mission has seen its share of high-profile protection failures – including the mass rape of over 200 women, men and children in August of 2010. But MONUSCO is at the forefront of innovative tactics to protect civilians. In order to sustain and maximize these new efforts, however, the mission requires additional civilian and logistical capacity. MONUSCO also requires new information management and analysis systems in order to facilitate moving from a reactive to genuinely preventive protection posture. Read Full Report
Final review and appraisal of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s

Source: United Nations     Report Date: August 2002

This New Partnership for Africa’s Development is a pledge by African leaders, based on a common vision and a firm and shared conviction, that they have a pressing duty to eradicate poverty and to place their countries, both individually and collectively, on a path of sustainable growth and development, and at the same time to participate actively in the world economy and body politic. The Programme is anchored on the determination of Africans to extricate themselves and the continent from the malaise of underdevelopment and exclusion in a globalising world. Read Full Report