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Making the Private Sector Public in Hunger and Malnutrition
This week saw the Delhi launch of the Lancet Nutrition series. Ahead of the launch a group of senior nutrition experts and paediatricians in India wrote an open statement that contained the following sentence.
"The call for engaging with the "private sector" and unregulated marketing of commercial foods for preventing malnutrition in children raises serious concerns. The inherent conflict of interest will ensure that commercial considerations override sustainable nutritional goals."
The series said nothing of the sort.
Paper 4 of which I was a co-author says we should engage with the private sector, but on the public sector's terms (i.e. in the areas they want, for the groups they want and with the regulation and risk assessment they demand). Unfortunately this private sector stuff is pretty much only what the Indian newspapers wanted to talk about. They should be asking why the Government has not collected any national nutrition data for 7 years.
The inability to have a debate on the rules of engagement with the private sector is costing children's lives and wellbeing. And the stand-off is so pointless because the private sector is already incredibly influential (nearly a quarter of all Indian kids in the upper income quintile are stunted--these households use the market to provide for most of their food, water, health and sanitation needs).
Relatedly, President Obama was in Africa to promote the G8's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. The Alliance is a trio of commitments from African leaders, private sector partners and the G8.
I was interviewed about this for the LA Times. I said that New Alliance could be a good thing but only if it passes three tests:
(a) is it targets to smallholder farmers (see the new High Level Panel of Experts report on smallholder farming),
(b) who can actually afford to engage with it (if it does not leave them in too much debt),
(c) if governments are willing and able enough to specify the conditions under which alliances with the G8 and private sector are formed and then:
(d) enforce them.
The imbalances of power between the public and private sector in food and agriculture makes the meeting of these conditions difficult but not impossible. Underpinning all of this is transparency. I don't believe transparency is sufficient, but in this area of power imbalances around hunger and nutrition, I feel it is necessary.
Whenever the public sector engages with the private sector, the agreements, conduct, profits and impacts on hunger and malnutrition have to be public.
Sachs Sells
Oh dear, the current edition of Foreign Policy (FP) has yet another article about Jeff Sachs: "Does it Take A Village?"
Quite what this story is doing in the "Failed States" edition I don't know, but there is absolutely nothing new in it.
The story revolves around the Millennium Villages story of a year ago in the Lancet when I and a few others wrote a letter pointing out a few basic flaws in a Lancet paper from Sachs' team purporting to show the MVP's positive effects on a range of development outcomes.
The point of the FP article? As far as I can tell, to call some of those people up and ask them about the one year old story. I'm surprised they bothered cooperating. I'm surprised they could even remember it.
I think Jeff Sachs has some flaws (newsflash 1--we all do) but I also think he has some tremendous strengths (newsflash 2--we all don't).
It's time to stop Sachs-ing up stories with tittle tattle about the Prof.
While FP should be writing about the next set of Global Development Goals, it is writing this piffle. FP, you should be embarrassed.
Immigration Bonds: "You Cannot Be Serious"
So the UKIP effect begins to bite.
The UK Coalition Government is flirting with Immigration Bonds.
The Wimbledon tennis tournament has just begun in the UK and John McEnroe is commentating. So, right on cue, many of us are saying "you cannot be serious".
In short, the UK government, from November, plans to charge 6 month immigrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Ghana and Nigeria £3000 to come to the UK. Individuals get it back if they do not violate the terms of their visa.
Given the mean national income of the 6 countries, this is like charging a UK immigrant £30,000 to go to the USA.
This is what the Home Office says about the bonds:
"The UK Government announced its intention to consider trialling the use of financial bonds as a way of tackling abuse in the immigration system some time ago. Since then, discussions have been ongoing within the UK Government about how and when to implement the proposed trial. The details of the policy are still being finalised. Ghana is being considered as a pilot country, along with many others, but no final decision has yet been made. In the event that the pilot scheme goes ahead, the vast majority of visitors would be processed in the normal way. Only a very small number of the highest risk visitors would be required to pay a bond, and the bond would be refunded once the visitor returns home. The scheme would be limited to a select group of countries for the pilot only. If the pilot were successful, the full scheme would be rolled-out worldwide, and high-risk visitors of all nationalities would be required to pay a bond."
"If the pilot were successful...". But what is success?
The scheme may keep abusers out (although many doubt it will) but what about the risk it will keep law abiding citizens out too? These are citizens who study at our universities, form bonds with the UK, invest in it when they return, work hard when they are here and tell the world about our good values.
And what about our standing in the world? It is distressing enough to see UK customs officials predominantly only stopping people with dark skin at the border. Now they have to pay for the privilege.
So this "pilot" will only affect 6 countries (accounting for about a quarter of the world's population no less) and those with 6 month visas, but if successful it will be extended to all countries and all visas!
Well, if it gets implemented (and there is some hope David Cameron will kill it) let's hope it is evaluated with a broad definition of success. If it is I am sure it will show the damage that it surely will do to our country (and probably already has done according to the media in India, Ghana and Nigeria).
Then Mr. Cameron can forget about UK PLC and UKIP and begin coming to terms with UK RIP.
Double Burden of Malnutrition: Time to Drop "Double"?
One of the things that is apparent from the recent Lancet Nutrition Series is that it is becoming more and more difficult to keep the under and overnutrition agendas separate.
It is really tempting to keep them separate.
First, dealing with undernutrition is difficult enough without having to deal with overnutrition (basically overweight and obesity and the related chronic diseases of diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer).
And of course, dealing with undernutrition is one great way to help prevent overnutrition later in life. In addition, dealing with overnutrition means having to grapple with the food industry and a whole range of factors outside of nutrition's comfort zone: urban development, education, trade, taxes and agriculture for example.
Also, there aren't exactly a range of interventions and policies that have been shown to be effective to inspire us to ramp up action on the overnutrition front.
Finally, it is not easy to get research funding to address the two in an integrated fashion.
But I think the separation (which I have also contributed to) is no longer sustainable.
First, overnutrition does not operate a different space: it is not just a later in life phenomenon--it is happening to under 5's; it is not just in urban areas and it is not just in middle and upper income countries--it is everywhere.
Second, the undernutrition community can't avoid engaging with the private sector--not having to deal with the private sector is no longer a reason for not getting involved overnutrition.
Third, we now know that the fight against undernutrition has to go way beyond health, and into the wider development space. This is something even more obvious in dealing with overnutriton.
All the reasons for separating the two are dissolving.
So, seemingly, something that is difficult (undernutriiton reduction) just got much harder (dealing with under and over nutrition). But is that really so? Can an integrated approach help us address both issues better? I think that may be the case.
Making development more nutrition sensitive and making nutrition more politically aware surely brings the worlds of over and undernutrition together, indeed, shows they were never that far apart in the first place. They should no longer be separated at birth.
In this context, a new World Bank review of Global Evidence on the Double Burden of Malnutrition from the World Bank (by Roger Shrimpton and Claudia Rokx) is comprehensive and well done, but depressing (coming soon on the World Bank website). It is depressing because it shows how divided the two camps are and how that is to neither's advantage. Beyond the physiological linkages there has not been much thinking in the past 10 years on how to bring them together in the policy, programme, training, communication and advocacy spaces.
Perhaps the time is only now right to do this.
A paper in the Lancet from December 2012 by Moodle et. al. ("Profits and Pandermics") draws the parallels between the practices of the tobacco, alcohol and "ultra-processed food and drink" industries. They conclude that "despite the common reliance on industry self-regulation and public-private partnerships, there is no evidence of their effectiveness or safety". I think the evidence base upon which they draw is weak (not their fault), but their conclusions are in accord with my own sense of the situation and indeed I made the same parallels in Development Policy Review paper from 2003 where I go through the various triggers for successful government regulation of tobacco an see how they apply to obesity.
I think policymakers are about to get a wake up call from advocacy groups, consumers, the health community, and even some industry leaders, to do something.
The Double Burden is here to stay. Perhaps it is time to drop the Double (on the double).
Is Transparency Overrated?
In these days of Edward Snowden and his unveiling of "the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history" combined with the drive to uncover firms that are salting profits away in tax havens it is hard to be anything but on the side of transparency.
After all, "transparency is the best disinfectant" as politicians from Louis Brandeis to David Cameron are fond of telling us.
But a paper I came across by the George Washington University sociologist, Amitai Etzioni in the Journal of Political Philosophy from 2010 argues that transparency is overvalued.
When information costs are high and when the personal stakes of relying on transparency are also high, transparency is much less useful.
The paper argues that transparency is no substitute for effective regulation, and indeed that regulation is a much more powerful way of expressing a community's values.
The paper argues that:
1. Strong transparency is regulation -- when something is required by law to be published, and required to be understandable and true (and enforced).
2. But because strong transparency is so rare (it is hard to develop law to make things transparent, understandable and true and then enforce that in a timely way), it transforms into soft transparency and weak regulation. Can softer forms of transparency help substitute for regulation?
3. No. First, there are limits to knowing. Transparency often demands disclosure, but not effective communication. Second, can intermediaries help us sift the data? Up to a point--we still don't know which is the most reliable, and then who will guard the guardians? Third, more information does not necessarily lead to better choices and can often lead to stasis and information overload.
4. The difference between transparency (welcomed by the laissez faire types and the libertarians) and regulation (usually unpopular with the same crowd) is smaller than it may at first seem.
5. The paper concludes by saying "When all is said and done, there is room for increased, validated, and comprehensive transparency (and vetted intermediaries). However, it is not sufficient protection when the disutility and the information costs are high—and often even when they are not."
So where does this leave us? First, more transparency in itself is not necessarily a good thing--it has to be true and easily understood (the new food labels in the UK have to be a good thing, right? Yes, but they are still voluntary and Coca Cola are not playing ball). Second, even if it is both these things, when the downsides of a bad choice are significant, transparency is no substitute for regulation (does the PM think transparency can let him get by with light regulation?).
Most development people I know see transparency as a complement to--or starting point on the road to--regulation.
In any case, an interesting, short and well written paper reminding us not to be unthinking "transparenistas".
The G8 Verdicts: Devils, Details, Geeks and Whimpers
So the G8 summit is over, the documents are out and the verdicts are in.
Verdicts include:
The UK Trades Union Congress: "yet another opportunty has been missed to finally get to grips with global tax avoidance and evasion"
The Taxpayers Alliance in the UK: "This summit was a distraction which was never going to address the root cause of British public disquiet over tax avoidance: our hideously complex tax code"
Of the 10 points in the G8 Declaration, the Spectator magazine says "it's difficult to see how governments could really be measured against any of these criteria in a year's time"
Larry Elliot at the Guardian said: "progress at the summit itself was virtually non-existent. A declaration of G8 principles was a windy document that committed the west's leading industrial nations to do little specific"
Sally Copely, the spokesperson for the IF campaign said: "Today's G8 tax deal is a step in the right direction, but it also leaves major unfinished business"
Development Initiatives and Publish What You Fund were pleased with the focus on the International Aid Transparency Agreement "The G8 is finally delivering on aid transparency promises with all countries committing to full and timely implementation of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This includes France, Italy and Japan, for the first time"
Murray Worthy of ActionAid, on tax said: "If all of these promises become reality this could have an enormous impact on tackling one of the greatest scandals of our time. But there is a long way to go and today all we have is a general statement of principles with no detail and no deadlines. .. As always the devil will be in the detail, and there's no detail here."
Kevin Watkins, new ODI Director, did not mince his words: "We were promised a bang, but this is a whimper. It is simply a wish list."
I don't know about you but I find it really difficult to assess G8's--esepcially this one--because:
1. The devil really is in the details. The 10 point Declaration is replete with "should" rather than "we will". This is disappointing but perhaps it is unrealistic to have expected anything but. The 24 page Communique does have more detail within it--some quite specific--and will provide grist for the various G8 Accountability mechanisms to grind out the truth.
2. The UK government made it really difficult for itself. One T would have been a challenge, but 3? Admittedly the Transparency and Tax T's are strongly linked, but Trade is a massive issue that surely deserves a singular focus.
3. Syria. There is usually a crisis or two that disrupts the nonemergency agenda, and Syria was it this time, but it is not so usual that the crisis involves G8 members so directly in the security space. This must have taken a lot of energy away from the other agendas.
Ultimately, though, Lough Erne will best be judged a year from now and perhaps 5 years from now.
Nevertheless Prime Minister Cameron deserves credit for getting Tax and Transparency onto the agenda. But as one commentator said (I can't find the exact quote), the PM must not be seen to be the "geek doing the homework for the other kids". He has to show sustained leadership to get them to do their own.
Utopia: It ain't what it used to be
Three stories for you today, all with a link to utopia.
The first is a nice article from David Rieff in Foreign Affairs ("The Singularity of Fools") about the "headlong rush to believe in technology, Utopian or otherwise, seems like the optimism of fools".
The article is a critique of the assumptions many of us make unthinkingly when it comes to development. For example he says the "rise of authoritarian illiberal capitalism may prove to be just as successful as the liberal variant of the system". The paper is basically an argument against a homogenised view of what "decent societies and a decent international order look like". It is good to hear these arguments in the context of the post 2015 debate, to remind ourselves of the singular paths to development that most rich countries have taken (and been allowed to take), although I do find the article a bit too depressing. Optimism is great as long as it (like anything else) is not unthinking.
The second is a piece in Foreign Affairs on Africa by Mohamed El-Erian the CEO of global investment management firm Pimco ("Into Africa"). I really like the way in which the narrative has changed about Africa--from "out of" to "into"; from "heart of darkness" to "land of opportunity". The macro statistics are really encouraging and the micro ones are improving. The challenge is to sustain and convert this into people-centred improvements in wellbeing. Opportunity for investors does not automatically equal opportunity for ordinary citizens. Optimism, yes, but don't over-Utopia Africa just yet.
On to our final Utopian story, the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF), from the Times Higher Education Supplement magazine ("Refereeing the REF"). The UK government ranks each University department and then allocates funds on the rational basis of this measured excellence (IDS is not part of the system as we do not qualify as a separate university). This is a fun pro and con article by wife and husband team, Amanda Goodall and Andrew Oswald, two senior academics in the UK system. He is anti REF and she is pro. As in any good debate, the arguments are compelling on both sides.
On the pro side--the REF promotes a stronger research culture, makes faculty hiring more transparent, and leads to an increased chance that funds follow better research. On the con side: the framework is too risk averse (big ideas suffer and so does interdisciplinary research), books, which might be read by the general public to generate impact, are disincentivised and less attention is paid to teaching and other jobs.
For me, the cons have it--just. I applaud the goal--to recognise and reward research quality in a comparative way--but I suspect the REF creates all kinds of incentives that risk devaluing the overall research culture--to make it more competitive than cooperative. I'm sure there is research going on now to test that hypothesis--I just hope it gets published in a high impact journal or we may never hear about it.
What do the reviews say about the High Level Panel's Post 2015 Report?
I have been looking at the 76 reviews/responses to the High Level Panel's report listed on their own website.
I have not had time to read all of them (note for development students: a good topic for a content analysis--see the above graphic from youthpolicy.org) but here are some conclusions from a scan of some of the more interestingly titled ones.
People like much about the report (the phrase "glass is 2/3 full" is Charles Kenny's verdict). I'm not going to focus on that.
These are the things that the reviews are less happy with:
The absence of an inequality goal: the leave no one behind narrative is welcomed, but what about the extreme concentrations of wealth at the top end?
Not enough on human rights: rhetoric good, absent in core recommendations
A less than full recognition of the earth as a finite ecosystem
An over-reliance on economic growth as a driver of all things good
Worry about not putting numbers on targets (one commentator said the frequent appearance of x,y and z would please lovers of algebra but seriously limited its usefulness)
Lack of specific recommendations on the monitoring and accountability mechanisms
Lack of a focus on concepts such as wellbeing which would have made the definitions of poverty less "old school"
Goal 12 left some a little underwhelmed--too vague and too narrow, especially compared to some of the progress goals
Worries about dilution over the next 2 years--will this survive the Open Working Group process?
I liked Participate's take on the 5 transformational shifts (their response in bold)
'Leave no one behind'—but don't lose sight of who is getting ahead
'Put sustainable development at the core'—but don't force people to make impossible choices
'Transform economics for jobs and inclusive growth'—but growth isn't always good
'Build peace and effective, open and accountable institutions for all'—but don't ask if you won't really listen
'Forge a new global partnership'—but it must be led by citizens
I note that the word "people" does not appear in the word map above.... I also note that the vast majority of comments are from outside of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Still, 2/3 ain't bad, for now.
Nutrition 4 Growth: Country Driven Financial Commitments
Yesterday I focused on the donor nutrition pledges.
Today it is the country-driven pledges.
This took longer as there were 22 of them to sift and look at.
The table here summarises the most overtly financial parts of the Government pledges.
22 countries pledged, 18 of which are from Sub Saharan Africa: Fantastic
Other countries that pledged: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Yemen--Great
India and Pakistan not present: Why?
There were especially impressive concrete pledges to increase spending in 10 countries: Ethiopia, Guinea Republic, Liberia, Malawi (the inspiring Joyce Banda in the picture), Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe
The countries with the most concrete pledges tend to rank in the bottom half of the Nutrition Commitment Index (the nutrition component of HANCI), which suggests the global momentum and country momentum are moving in tandem
Civil Society: The Need to do More to Make Malnutrition Visible
At the end of a packed few days for the nutrition community, the Civil Society Network of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement are set to hold their Inaugural Meeting tomorrow, June 11, in Washington, DC.
The meeting will mark the launch of the newly-formed Network, which takes over from the vaguely-entitled "Task Force C" as the network supporting civil society's contribution to the SUN's objectives.
The meeting follows from a hive of activity in the nutrition community in a very short space of time. The Lancet launched their new Nutrition series in the UK on June 6th. The UK and Brazilian Governments' Nutrition for Growth event on June 8th proved to be an extremely significant moment for new nutrition financing.
Meanwhile today, June 10, the Sustaining Political Commitment to Scaling Up Nutrition meeting in DC will bring many parts of the SUN movement together to mark the culmination of the first 1,000 Days and consider what is needed for the next 1,000 days.
The Inaugural Meeting follows these events on June 11. Gathering 70 civil society representatives from 30 countries, the agenda for the meeting does a good job at prioritising the voices of participants from SUN countries. Discussions will focus on their experiences from work within the SUN movement, and on their visions of how an international Civil Society Network can contribute effectively to the SUN movement objective of reducing under-nutrition.
But what will the Civil Society Network actually do? Of course the answer to that question will depend to on the outcomes of the meeting. It is likely though, that the new Network will continue the sterling work that Task Force C took to support the development of effective and coordinated civil society input into national-level dialogue and to ensure nutrition is prioritised by leaders around the world.
The Civil Society Network should support civil society from across different countries to forge links to advance nutrition at the national, regional and international level. And I think it is also important for the Network to ensure that civil society organisations' efforts to reduce malnutrition are aligned with the broader efforts of other parts of the SUN movement.
The contribution of Civil Society Organisations to national level advances against malnutrition has been impressive. They have played an essential role in advocating, providing nutrition services, and holding other parts of the SUN movement to account. In many SUN countries, effective civil society alliances regularly input into the development of national nutrition plans through seats on governments' nutrition platforms, and often civil society has been implemental in persuading governments to join the SUN movement. One reason why we at IDS developed HANCI, which rates nations' commitments to tackle malnutrition, was to provide a tool to support civil society with such work at the national level.
But civil society also has an essential role to play at the international level. The many international processes which will affect nutrition around the world require strong input from civil society. A good recent example from the world of nutrition is in the launch of the High Level Panel's report on the post-2015 framework, which includes many of civil society's demands, such as for a stunting target and a standalone goal on hunger. Similarly, civil society's voice has been essential in making the Nutrition for Growth event such a success.
For me, there are at least three reasons why a strong Civil Society Network which can raise the voice of civil society's experience to international nutrition-related process is essential:
Civil Society is often very good at conveying messages from 'the field' to the desks and meetings of decision makers. When I attended the Irish Government's Hunger Nutrition and Climate Justice event in April, the experiences of civil society organisations were essential to helping us to answer the big questions being asked. Their big advantage is that they can make malnutrition visible.
Of all the parts of the SUN movement, it is often civil society who can be most ambitious and prepared to push the boundaries, setting the bar high for other parts of the network as well as for themselves.
Civil society's fluidity often means that they are in the best position to do the essential job of reaching out to other sectors (agriculture, health, education) that impact on nutrition. Nutrition is often discussed at the Committee on World Food Security, for example; and of all the networks of the SUN movement it is civil society who are best positioned to make these links with their (more established) counterparts there.
For all of these reasons, the Civil Society Network's Inaugural meeting in DC is one to watch, for others in the SUN movement and beyond.
I will be keen to see the outcomes from that meeting.
Nutrition 4 Growth: How Big are the Pledges?
Well, that was quite an event: David Cameron, MIchel Temer, Bill Gates, Kofi Annan, Joyce Banda, Enda Kenny, Justine Greening, Anjelique Kidjo, Tony Lake, Ertharin Cousin, Graziano De Silva, Raj Shah, etc. And very well conceived and executed.
But ultimately it was a story of hedges, pledges and edges.
Hedges, because the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) funded by profits from the TCI Hedge Fund surprised everyone (and perhaps themselves) by pledging $700 million to nutrition over the next 7 years. Phenomenal for a Foundation that is only 10 years old.
Pledges, because despite everyone saying it is about more than the money, the money is a big part of it.
$4 billion was pledged by the Donor government and Foundation donors. But just how significant is that?
This is not an easy question to answer.
Try this (and let me know if I have done something obviously wrong).
Assumption 1: say economic growth will take care of about half of stunting (this is what the evidence says). So, assume economic growth continues in the high burden countries
That means we need about an extra $10bn a year on nutrition specific programmes (the Lancet estimates) to take care of just under a quarter of stunting
Assumption 2: I would guess an increase of $15bn/year (who knows?) classified as nutrition sensitive programmes is also needed to take care of the remaining quarter. Note this will probably show as zero or a small marginal costs as it is mostly about making existing potentially nutrition sensitive programmes actually nutrition sensitive.
Assumption 3: so the total 7 year bill is $70bn. The assumption of donors is that they will cover 30% of that cost (and where were India and Indonesian pledges?) which puts their bill at $21bn.
So we can almost eliminate stunting by 2020 for $21bn of donor funds if the high burden countries find $49bn and economic growth continues. Phew.
Assumption 4: however, we probably don't have the capacity to spend that step increase sensibly so assume half of that envelope is scaled up over the 7 years, which is $10.5bn for donors and $24.5 bn for high burden countries
Assumption 5: so an increase of $4 bn (if the donor pledge is realised) to 2020 looks to cover just under 40% of the donor gap. This is probably an underestimate of the gap covered given the matching element of the pledges risks some double counting.
$4bn at 40% of the gap to 2020 seems like a very positive result, albeit with very favourable assumptions (continued economic growth, high burden country financing materialising, zero marginal costs on nutrition sensitive interventions, new pledges being kept). With less favourable assumptions the $4bn looks much smaller.
Another way of looking at it is that a $4bn increase over 7 years is an average of about $570k/year extra on top of an annual $400k of nutrition specific + $4bn of nutrition sensitive (rough estimate from donor work in April) or about a 13% increase on average, but will be a lot higher as a % by 2020 as this will be backloaded.
But even if the pledges do represent 40% of the gap, that still leaves $6bn for the donors to find, $4bn of pledges to materialise and be spent sensibly, donor fatigue not to set in and SUN to help civil society in high burden countries encourage/pressure their governments (esp India and Indonesia) to find the $24.5 bn of domestic resources.
So, not bad at all with the rosy scenario. Less good with the more realistic scenarios. But as I said, it is very murky.
Edges, because whatever the scenario, we now have to be hard edged and hold funders (donor and domestic) to their commitments and to find additional funding commitments to end stunting and other forms of undernutrition.
Brazil 2016 is a future staging post for new additional commitments and we need a few additional staging posts between now and then.
Hedges, Pledges and Edges. We need to make it work for the world's most vulnerable children.
The New Lancet Series on Nutrition: Time to Step Up the Outrage
The new Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition was launched yesterday.
All papers can be found here.
(Declaration of interest--I was one of the study team).
So, what's new?
1. Undernutrition is the underlying cause of 45% of under 5 child deaths.
This is up from 35% from the last series in 2008, largely because the total number of deaths has gone down but the percent from undernutrition has not declined as fast. Put this with 11% GDP loss due to undernutrition from Steckel and Horton's latest estimates and the fact that less than 1% of ODA is allocated to nutrition. The mismatch is staggering.
Number one reason for outrage.
2. 27% of all births in low and middle income countries are small for gestational age (not pre-term).
They are born malnourished.
Most pregnant women living in poor contexts do not access nutrition services (if at all) until month 5 or 6 of pregnancy, which is late. This reinforces the need to make sure women are well nourished going into pregnancy--for themselves and for their children. It also focuses more policy attention on young girls, 10 million of whom are married before 18 years of age.
Number two reason for outrage.
3. The numbers of under 5 year old children that are stunted stands at 165 million and with business as usual those numbers are projected to decline to 127 million by 2025.
The World Health Assembly Targets are 100 million stunted children by 2025. If we can get that close to the WHA targets through business as usual, surely the targets are too timid and are a weak accountability tool?
While the poverty world is aiming to end poverty (see the recent High Level Panel Report), the nutrition world is being complacent.
Number three reason for outrage
4. Scaling up 10 nutrition specific interventions to 90% will reduce stunting prevalence by 20% and severe wasting by 60%.
This would comfortably exceed the WHA targets. The incremental costs of doing so is estimated to be $9.6 billion for the 34 highest burden countries. More than half of this amount is accounted for by India and Indonesia which will rely heavily on domestic resources. Consumables (drugs, and other items for transport and administration) come to less than half of the $9.6bn, and all but the very poorest countries can be expected to cover personnel costs. So an extra $3-4 billion per year from external donors will make a substantial difference to maternal and child nutrition. The current spend is between $400m and $1bn.
Number four reason for outrage. Nutrition for Growth pledgers--surprise yourselves on Saturday.
5. For the first time nutrition sensitive programmes were analysed by the Lancet series.
These are programmes that address the underlying determinants of fetal and child nutrition and development--food security, caregiving, health services, social protection, safe and hygienic environment--but also incorporate specific nutrition goals and actions.
The message here is that these programmes are not "design-proof". In other words, if they are to have an impact on nutrition, surprise, design matters: they should target the first 1000 days, they should empower women, they should work in the poorest areas, they should be of the right duration and they should improve the quality of services as well as the demand for them.
The presentation of this paper yielded an interesting discussion about the nature of evidence. The Lancet paper focused on micro-studies, looking for RCTs when available but not restricting themselves to such. Nevertheless, two very senior and world class agricultural economics commentators pointed out that the medicalisation of evidence risks ignoring vast swathes of other types of rigorous evidence which make a strong plausible case that food and agricultural policies affect nutrition, even if they do not make it into the evidence pool of narrow systematic reviews.
The issue that came up in the discussion is: how do we incentivise these programmes to work for nutrition? One answer is to embed nutrition specific interventions within these nutrition sensitive programmes because the latter can achieve scale and because synergies are likely to be generated between specific and sensitive.
But the incentive issue is more difficult when it comes to food systems--how do you incentivise the food system to support healthy growth (whether avoiding under or overnutrition). We are not devoting enough energy to this.
6. Malnutrition is Political.
The paper I was involved in with Stuart Gillespie (co-lead with me), Venkatesh Mannar, Purnima Menon and Nick Nisbett, deliberately chose to focus on the politics of malnutrition. All development is political and so why would we expect nutrition to be any different?
In fact the returns to a political analysis for nutrition are likely to be high--many actors, with different agendas, different power levels, amid a sea of invisibility and asymmetric information--sounds like a definition of Politics 101.
We talk about the need to understand politics if we are to build and sustain commitment and then turn it into impact. We focus on framing, evidence, governance, accountability, commitment, capacity and resource mobilisation.
Malnutrition is more than a technical, health, policy, programme and economic issue, it is political.
Treating malnutrition as an apolitical issue is outrage number 5.
7. Private sector--deal with it.
We dealt with this in our Paper 4. The basic messages: (1) the private sector is already inextricably linked to undernutrition. The percent of foods and other nutrition relevant goods purchased in the market is rising inexorably, (2) there is lots of distrust of the private sector, especially the food industry. This is based on a troubling history of abuse and some continuing violations of the code of conduct for the marketing of breast milk substitutes. So the risks of getting it wrong are high. But the risks of foregoing the benefits of getting it right are also high, and (3) surely we can devise some governance structures that reward good behaviour and punish bad behaviour?
There are plenty of ideas: registers of interest, embedding adherence to the Code in job descriptions of senior executives, strengthening whistleblower protections. There are things governments need to do too: enshrine Codes in law, make cross-border trading of fortified foods simpler, enforce simple labelling. Research funders and the research community need to be bolder in funding research to find out which business models work for nutrition and which do not.
Children can't eat ideology. All sides need to engage. Failure to do so is my outrage number 6.
Finally I just want to thank Prof. Bob Black, the leader of the Lancet series. He is an incredible intellect, an incredible manager, and a very humble guy who has nothing to be humble about. It has been a real pleasure working with him and the team of coordinators to get this done in 6 months.
Expressing outrage is not just talking about it--it is doing stuff about it, stuff that often has a high personal cost. Bob has been an inspiration.
Free Nancy Okail. Free Egypt's NGOs
Nancy Okail is the Director of Freedom House's Egypt office.
She and 42 others were arrested on Tuesday in a crackdown on foreign NGOs in Egypt.
It is a sad day for democracy in Egypt.
Nancy is an IDS alumna and a thoroughly impressive development professional and freedom advocate.
See her in this chillingly prescient video interview from a year ago.
Nancy is not in Egypt and was sentenced to a 5 year term in absentia. She is soft spoken but with a core of steel. You can follow her tweets at @NancyGEO.
This is a quote from the linked CSM article.
"I used to live in England," she said. "When the revolution happened, I went back to Egypt to work in human rights and democracy, and I was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison, while the police officers accused of killing the protesters all got acquitted. I can't say anything more than that."
January 25 2011 feels like a long time ago.
Development and Security in a Changing World: New Report from IDS
My IDS colleagues Jeremy Allouche and Jeremy Lind have just published their new report entitled A New Deal? Development and Security in a Changing World.
It is a timely report. ODA is increasingly flowing to development in fragile and conflict affected contexts. In addition, there is growing pressure to stretch the definition of ODA so it can be used in a variety of ways by a variety of Departments.
The report takes as a given that development and security are linked, but it explores the implications for development practitioners and policymakers.
They note that
* Non state actors such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Mungiki in Kenya have claimed the development mantle
* The New Deal endorsed by the g7+ grouping of fragile and conflict affected states is the latest example of how aid recipient countries are increasingly vocal about whether aid works for them
* the aid approaches of non DAC donors such as Turkey, China are more aligned with their own security and commercial interests
Using two case studies from Sierra Leone and Kenya, and an extensive review of several literatures, they argue that these trends require a new approach to development and security. The approach should place relationships with local provides of security and basic services at the centre of policy analysis. Much insecurity is local and development actors need to find ways to respond even though their influence is attenuated.
The report argues that two concepts can help: entrustment and brokerage. The first is about transferring power to local actors to make decisions, define and assess problems and use resources to act on this. Brokerage is about building a shared understanding among actors with very different interests and different capacities to act in support of these interests.
Well, they suggest that development agencies should consider doing the following to operate more effectively in fragile and conflict affected contexts:
(1) commit more staff to the field in recognition of the localised nature of the security and development issues
(2) recruit staff with skills in security, diplomacy, brokering and negotiation
(3) be prepared to take more calculated risks, innovating on risk pooling mechanisms
(4) slow down turnover of staff to ensure more retention of local realities and complexities
They conclude that aid agencies have not gone overboard with development and security--they have merely tinkered at the edges.
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Linite blinked, surprised by the Lieutenants sudden action. She smiled and nodded once as Lune shook her hand roughly. "Lune." She repeated in agreement. Linite laughed as she listened to the unruly Lieutenant. "Yeah…I wasn't really to keen on coming here, but I didn't really have much choice, obviously. " She glanced at the other members of her squad. "Important military gatherings can't exactly be avoided. " She chuckled. "Do you know when we'll be heading indoors? I'm guessing half the people out here already have frostbite" She said, trying to keep her smile on as her legs began to quiver again. Linite sighed, wishing she hadn't brought up the topic of the temperature again. She had previously been happily distracted from the numbness in her legs. Linite quickly glanced around the edges of the gigantic tarmac, her eyes scanning the buildings for an entryway or lobby that might possibly be heated, and have enough space for her squad, though she doubted they'd be permitted to move indoors separate from the other groups, even if there was one. "I hope for the love of god I never get transferred here…" Linite thought as she thought of home. She assumed it was a hot, sunny day there. Sighing again, Linite bent down slightly to rub her shins, trying to warm them up a bit as she waited for Lune's reply.
[[Having finally found some free time to actually RP…-__-]] Having been able to regain her composure, Linite began to ponder the true reason for this military gathering. The details they had been given were very vague, and basically just told them where to go, who to go with, and when to be there. This led Linite to assume that it was probably of high importance, and that thought made her somewhat nervous. She'd never really been that good at 'serious' stuff, and when the time called for propriety, Linite always had to be mindful of her words and actions lest she slip up and accidentally say something that would bring about trouble. Luckily, for the most part anyways, she'd always been able to make a good impression and breeze through in serious situations, and she wasn't about to let that change. After scanning the group of officials ahead of her, Linite noticed Lieutenant Lune Zoldark break away from the cluster of people, and approach the group she stood with. As she was one of the few higher-ranking officers among her group of comrades, she stepped forward to greet the Lieutenant. With a slight gulp, she straightened her posture and saluted just as Lune came to stand before the group. "Lieutenant Zoldark, I'm Ensign Linite Estral of the 87th Special forces squadron." Linite moved her hand from her forehead to her side, and quickly bowed her head as a sign of respect. Her previously straight expression faded into a warm smile, and she extended her right hand toward the Lieutenant in greeting. "It's an honor to meet you, especially during peacetime."
Russia…cold weather… Linite Estral knew perfectly well that the two made a fine and common pair, but somehow she'd been lost in a fantasy of a shining sun, generously warming the earth with its golden rays. Well…that fantasy was certainly thwarted…rather harshly, to say the least. The Ensign stood obediently by the AF transport craft that she and her other comrades had traveled on separately from Vice Admiral Bian Zoldark and his daughters. Her tall figure was wrapped in a mid-length, military-issue overcoat, which concealed her uniform beneath it. Linite wore her uniform in a proper manner that day, contrary to her normal habits. She hated doing up the collar. Her long blond hair was worn in its usual ponytail variation, and at the very least it blocked some of the wind. Despite her best efforts to keep them still, Linite's legs quivered from the icy chill that hung in the air. "Useless uniforms…" Linite muttered quietly to herself as she glared loathingly down at her skirt. At least they'd been given gloves, an offer that she'd taken to with much enthusiasm as soon as she'd first seen the tarmac, which was covered with a very light dusting of snow. Linite merely looked on as a few representatives from the Republic of East Asia's Red Dragon Guard squadron greeted Vice Admiral Zoldark. She took notice of the two young women who accompanied him. Lieutenant Lune Zoldark, no doubt, was the tomboyish one sporting a sloppily-worn men's uniform, and shoulder-length blonde hair that was anything but straight. However, it was the other young female that drew Linite's attention. She was very petite, and her hair color was also unnatural. Linite couldn't help but wonder if she was actually very young, or if she was just very undersized for her age. She hoped the latter was the case, as she didn't like the idea of children fighting in wars. Linite felt slightly disturbed by the thought. As she scanned the faces of each person in the group, another individual caught her eye. He was among the REA representatives, and was also quite small in stature compared to those of his comrades. His hair was pale blonde, and well kept. He appeared to be just a young boy, no older than 14. Linite felt her emotions stir even more as she looked back and forth at the two small soldiers. There was no way the EA would recruit mere children into the military, unless they were exceptionally skilled…but even then… Linite quickly snapped out of her thoughts when one of her comrades nudged her, informing her that her expression had shifted to the point where she was almost glaring at the group. Immediately she smoothed her expression, and hoped the chilled air had turned her cheeks pink enough that no one would notice her embarrassment.
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g201/LacusJP/OCs/CopyofLiniteEstral.gif[/img] (Smacks Photobucket for screwing up the quality... _<" title="" />) Wow! Another drawing!! (Looks at the drawings in first post) I really do think I'm improving!! This is Linite Estral, as you probably already guessed...(Because the last one I drew sucked... ) Anyways, for this one I'd like some feedback from the male population... How...physically appealing is she? (For lack of a better word...) Other than that, any feedback is welcome!
Actually...that's not a terrible idea. For something rough, that's something I would consider. Not necessarily the combination of the two, but perhaps a dog/dog's head could be incorporated into some of the ideas. After all, a black dog is said to be an omen of death. Thanks for that Roromi! I'll be adding that to the ideas list.
Alright! I'm bound and determined to get this right!! Well, looking back at the designs, I'm beginning to see where you're coming from Konig. I was concentrating alot on making them look Cosmic Era...ish, and not really about meanings, or the symbols I was using. I was thinking that, since the Hell Hounds is our AF unit, and the HQ is in the US, then perhaps I could use some symbols that represent the US, like a bald eagle. Of course, that particular example might not be the most original idea...but I need something to start with. I'm really going to need some suggestions from others for this... So give me some input, people!!
Okay, so I came up with the idea of trying to create a logo for the 87th Special Forces squadron, so I'm posting up some ideas that I came up with. They don't have any text on them, but depending on the feedback I get, I might add some later. To make the images I combined various dingbat symbols I found on the internet, and came up with some pretty interesting things. Any 87ths can share their opinions on the designs, and then we will have a vote at a later date. So critique away!! #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 Tell me what you think!
Thank you, Kaizer!! I'm glad you like it!
All done, Kaizer! Check it out in my Art's Corner topic!
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Ensign Linite Estral; Atlantic Federation Reporting for duty!
I'll do it!! I've already got part of mine done anyways...I just hope I've got it right!


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Hate speech: DM and SP urged to take precautionary action regarding proposed 'Dharma Sansad' in Aligarh
New Delhi: Last month, those who filed petitions in the Supreme Court for alleged hate speeches against Muslims and calling for their genocide during events organized by radical Hindutva people in some cities have written to the Aligarh District Magistrate asking them to ensure To take precautionary action that such speeches should not be given in one such program proposed in the city, as given in 'Dharma Sansad' held in Haridwar.
The Supreme Court had on January 12 asked the Centre, Delhi Police and Uttarakhand Police to respond to a plea that allegedly made hate speeches against Muslims during two events (Dharma Sansad) organized in Haridwar and the national capital recently. There was a demand for directions to ensure investigation and action against the givers.
A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, while issuing notice on the petition, said that the petitioners are free to make a representation regarding such incidents to the local authorities concerned.
The bench said this after senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the petitioners, pointed out that a 'Dharma Sansad' is going to be held in Aligarh.
Sibal had argued that some more events are planned, in which there is a possibility of giving provocative speeches.
The petitioners, in a letter to the District Magistrate of Aligarh, in accordance with the liberty granted by the Supreme Court, have said that another 'Dharma Sansad' is now being organized in Aligarh on January 22-23, in which the re-speech of those Who had addressed the program organized in Haridwar between December 17-19 last year.
"It is the responsibility of the district administration to take precautionary measures to avoid any possible incident of mob violence and you are in-charge of the administration in Aligarh, hence it is the responsibility of the district administration to ensure that such speeches are not given," the letter said. The onus is on you to take action.
It is worth noting that 'Sanatan Hindu Seva Sansthan' has announced to organize 'Sanatan Dharma Sansad' on January 22-23 at Sanatan Bhawan located in Naurangabad, Aligarh. However, the district administration has denied having knowledge of any such program.
Further, a day after the Supreme Court order on 'Dharma Sansad' programmes, senior advocate Kapil Sibal on Thursday wrote to the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments to take preventive steps to check provocative speeches in several such programs proposed this month. have requested.
Sibal has sent copies of his letters to chief ministers, home secretaries and police chiefs of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, besides superintendents of police of Aligarh and Haridwar. A copy of this has also been sent to the Election Commission.
Sibal has written to the district magistrates of Aligarh and Haridwar urging them to take preventive measures including imposition of section 144 to prevent such events.
Sibal wrote in his letter, 'We are in the process of assembly elections, we do not want to impose our intention on any person, but if such speeches are made in the middle of the elections, they will destabilize the social order and This will have serious consequences on the politics of the country.
Sibal further said in his letter, 'We request you to take such preventive steps as may be necessary within your powers, which include Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and Sections 3 and 5 of the National Security Act, 1980. Huh.'
Jamiat urges Election Commission to ban proposed 'Dharma Sansad'
Meanwhile, the country's leading Muslim organization Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Thursday urged the Election Commission to put a stop to the proposed 'Dharma Sansad' in Aligarh next week, as the purpose of the event is to bring communal allegations and counter-allegations to a public discussion. to bring in.
According to the statement issued by the organization, Maulana Arshad Madani, the head of Jamiat, has demanded a ban on this event by giving an online report before the commission.
Jamiat says that he has also made this request to the District Magistrate of Aligarh.
This Muslim organization also mentioned in its report that the Supreme Court has sought a response from the Uttarakhand government in the matter of allegedly making inflammatory speeches in the 'Dharma Sansad' held in Haridwar in the past.
He said that such events should be banned during the assembly elections.
Earlier, some local citizens of Aligarh had demanded the government to stop the proposed Dharma Sansad.
It is known that between 17-19 December 2021 in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, 'Dharma Sansad' was organized by Hindutva leaders and fundamentalists, in which open hate speeches were allegedly given against Muslims and minorities, even That their massacre was also called.
Hardline Hindutva leader Yeti Narasimhananda was one of the organizers of this Dharma Sansad. Narasimhanand is already in the eyes of the police for giving hate speeches.
Yeti Narasimhanand, while making provocative statements against the Muslim society, said that he will give one crore rupees to the person who becomes 'Hindu Prabhakaran'.
Two FIRs have been registered against 15 people in the case.
The first FIR was registered in this regard on 23 December 2021 after the controversy over the video of the event went viral, in which only Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi was named. Before leaving Islam and adopting Hinduism, Tyagi's name was Wasim Rizvi.
The names of Swami Dharamdas and Sadhvi Annapurna alias Pooja Shakun Pandey were added to the FIR on 25 December 2021. Pooja Shakun Pandey is the Mahamandaleshwar of Niranjini Akhara and general secretary of Hindu Mahasabha.
After this, on January 1, the names of Yeti Narasimhanand and Sagar Sindhuraj Maharaj of Roorkee were included in this FIR.
On January 2, the state's Director General of Police had also constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the matter. After that, on January 3, a second FIR was registered against 10 people in connection with the Parliament of Religions.
In the second FIR, the organizers of the event, Yeti Narasimhanand Giri, Jitendra Narayan Tyagi (earlier known as Wasim Rizvi), Sagar Sindhuraj Maharaj, Dharamdas, Parmanand, Sadhvi Annapurna, Anand Swaroop, Ashwini Upadhyay, Suresh Chavan and Prabodhanand Giri were named. Has been done.
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The standards of this district (R-3) are designed to retain and provide areas of high density development characterized by single- and two-family dwelling unit structures.
A. No parcel of land for a single-family dwelling unit shall be less than four thousand (4,000) square feet, nor shall any parcel of land existing in single ownership at the time of passage of this Code henceforth be divided for sale in units of less than four thousand (4,000) square feet.
B. No parcel of land for a two-family dwelling unit structure shall be less than five thousand (5,000) square feet, nor shall any parcel of land existing in single ownership at the time of passage of this Code henceforth be divided for sale as two-family dwelling unit structure site of less than five thousand (5,000) square feet.
A. No parcel of land for a single-family dwelling unit shall be less than fifty (50) feet in width or fifty (50) feet in depth.
B. No parcel of land for a two-family dwelling unit structure shall be less than seventy (70) feet in width or seventy (70) feet in depth.
A principal structure shall provide side yards of not less than five (5) feet on each side, and except as provided in Section 17.120.020, an accessory building shall be set back from the side lot line at least five (5) feet.
A principal structure shall be set back at least fifteen (15) feet from a rear lot line, and except as provided in Section 17.120.020, an accessory building shall be set back from a rear lot line at least five (5) feet.
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IBM Corp. and Cisco programs Inc. plan to release a jointly developed product in July as a part of a diffusion of their existing alliance around telecommunications network administration and service assurance, the groups observed Thursday.
the brand new providing, Cisco Assurance management answer, integrates Cisco's lively community Abstraction (ANA) equipment management and mediation expertise with IBM's Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool/Precision management software, in response to Alan Ganek, chief technology officer, IBM Tivoli application. The providers were working on the product for about a yr, he pointed out.
Ganek's hopeful that the brand new product will attraction not only to telecom carriers however also to large firms such as financial features providers that are seeking for a less complicated way to manage their heterogenous networks.
IBM does have "very high expectations" about the seemingly revenue the codeveloped product could generate, Ganek observed, though he declined to identify a determine. IBM and Cisco additionally did not give any monetary details about their increased relationship.
"IBM's normal partnership with Cisco has largely been around the features enviornment," Ganek mentioned. "This new one in fact receives into their building teams within the application world."
IBM and Cisco struck a vast-based mostly strategic alliance returned in 1999 and in fresh months have been collaborating on numerous fronts together with a variety of their unified communications partnership and a mixed cooperative guide offering.
the first edition of Cisco Assurance administration solution will offer points together with community fault monitoring, problem isolation and real-time provider-stage adventure administration.
Future models of the application will include more of IBM's Tivoli systems and network administration know-how, Ganek pointed out. The next natural additions stands out as the Tivoli alternate and Configuration management Database and Tivoli Monitoring, he delivered.
Over the long run, new releases of Cisco Assurance administration answer may additionally consist of expertise IBM bought from the purchase of network efficiency monitoring application company Vallent, Ganek referred to. IBM closed the buy of Vallent in February and the utility grew to be a part of its Tivoli business unit. IBM received access to the Netcool utility after purchasing network administration specialist Micromuse in February 2006. it be additionally possible that IBM and Cisco may also free up other jointly developed software, he brought.
Ganek wired that the IBM/Cisco relationship isn't unique and that IBM additionally has "notable relationships" working carefully with many of the other community equipment suppliers.
Cisco's ANA already interoperates with other participants of the Tivoli household together with Tivoli Netcool/impact and Tivoli business provider manager. Cisco has been rebranding IBM's Tivoli Netcool as Cisco information center for a while and it be being used by using more than 500 of its shoppers.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. and ARMONK, N.Y. - June 14, 2007 - Cisco® and IBM (NYSE: IBM) nowadays introduced a diffusion of their current strategic alliance to carry new necessities-based mostly telecommunications carrier assurance and fault-administration solutions. next month, Cisco will introduce a service-management answer that combines Cisco lively network Abstraction (ANA) technology with the business-main IBM Tivoli utility to assist carrier providers centrally control new services. the brand new providing, Cisco Assurance administration solution, will give network fault monitoring, quandary isolation, and precise-time service-stage event management for enormous multi-supplier networks on a subsequent-era mediation platform.
using the Cisco ANA platform mediation capabilities and IBM Tivoli know-how, the Cisco Assurance administration answer will support service provider customers change and evolve community devices and configurations while not having to exchange their service administration and operations help methods applications. This solution will enable service suppliers to greater easily manipulate web Protocol (IP)-based mostly services and aid dramatically in the reduction of implementation and upkeep charges.
"Cisco and IBM have an extended background of working collectively to enhance the competitiveness of their joint provider company customers," pointed out Al Zollar, regularly occurring supervisor of Tivoli software for IBM. "This new settlement gives carrier providers the combined merits of confirmed IBM Tivoli know-how together with Cisco's leap forward strategy to community mediation with an open, specifications-based mostly answer. As IBM appears to help their provider issuer valued clientele bring greater return on their network and IT investments, Cisco is a herbal partner."
The initial edition of the Cisco Assurance administration solution will encompass IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool/Precision technology. Cisco is also able to include other Tivoli technologies in future versions of assurance options. Cisco will offer professional functions to assist be sure quick implementation with the aid of its purchasers.
"Cisco energetic network Abstraction is the groundwork of future options being dropped at their service issuer valued clientele. This extended collaboration with IBM offers valued clientele with the self assurance that Cisco's new machine management and mediation products will work with IBM application," stated Cliff Meltzer, senior vp of the community administration know-how neighborhood at Cisco. "The commitment from IBM demonstrates the interesting capabilities of Cisco ANA and will provide their joint shoppers with a platform that transforms their community right into a strategic enterprise asset."
The Cisco ANA is designed to be interoperable with IBM Tivoli application, including Tivoli Netcool/affect and Tivoli enterprise service manager. This expanded alliance will aid permit both new and present Tivoli Netcool and Cisco info center customers to easily take capabilities of the advantages of Cisco's ANA platform. Cisco info core is the Cisco-branded version of Tivoli Netcool which is used by using greater than 500 of Cisco's largest valued clientele. economic phrases of the settlement had been no longer disclosed.
due to the fact 1999, IBM and Cisco have forged a different, wide-reaching strategic alliance to more suitable enable their shoppers' potential to innovate. The IBM and Cisco strategic alliance has more than 25,000 joint shoppers. The companies are a confirmed aid for the seamless and speedy integration of business methods, business talents, information applied sciences, and the intelligence of the network, maximizing their shoppers' skill to examine, design, and innovate to exceed company aims.
For extra tips about Cisco Assurance administration solution, Cisco ANA, and the collaboration, seek advice from www.cisco.com/go/ana.
IBM Tivoli Netcool software has been chosen with the aid of more than 1,000 service suppliers globally, together with the entire exact 20 carriers. The software helps provider providers ensure best, in the reduction of operational fees and speed time to market. IBM's contemporary acquisition of Vallent extra extends IBM's means to assist provider suppliers tackle rising alternatives in subsequent-technology community transformation, fastened/mobile convergence, and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployment.
For greater advice about IBM Tivoli and Tivoli Netcool utility, visit www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/options/provider-provider/.
IBM and Cisco programs plan to unlock a jointly developed product in July as a part of a spread of their current alliance round telecommunications community management and service assurance, the organizations spoke of Thursday.
the new providing, Cisco Assurance management solution, integrates Cisco's active community Abstraction (ANA) machine administration and mediation technology with IBM's Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool/Precision management software, in response to Alan Ganek, chief know-how officer, IBM Tivoli software. The providers had been engaged on the product for about a 12 months, he talked about.
Ganek's hopeful that the brand new product will enchantment not best to telecom carriers but additionally to tremendous companies equivalent to economic services suppliers that are searching for a simpler method to manipulate their heterogenous networks.
IBM does have "very excessive expectations" in regards to the likely income the codeveloped product may generate, Ganek observed, although he declined to name a figure. IBM and Cisco additionally did not provide any economic particulars about their improved relationship.
"IBM's ordinary partnership with Cisco has largely been across the functions enviornment," Ganek stated. "This new one in fact gets into their development groups in the utility world."
IBM and Cisco struck a broad-primarily based strategic alliance again in 1999 and in contemporary months were taking part on varied fronts, including a selection of their unified communications partnership and a mixed cooperative support providing.
the primary edition of Cisco Assurance management answer will offer elements together with community fault monitoring, hindrance isolation, and real-time carrier-level experience administration.
Future versions of the application will consist of extra of IBM's Tivoli methods and community management expertise, Ganek referred to. The subsequent natural additions will be the Tivoli trade and Configuration administration Database and Tivoli Monitoring, he introduced.
Over the future, new releases of Cisco Assurance administration answer could additionally encompass expertise IBM acquired from the buy of network efficiency monitoring software enterprise Vallent, Ganek referred to. IBM closed the buy of Vallent in February, and the application grew to become part of its Tivoli business unit. IBM received entry to the Netcool utility after purchasing community management specialist Micromuse in February 2006. it be additionally viable that IBM and Cisco can also release different collectively developed application, he delivered.
Ganek stressed that the IBM/Cisco relationship is never unique and that IBM additionally has "incredible relationships" working carefully with many of the other community device providers.
Cisco's ANA already interoperates with different contributors of the Tivoli family unit including Tivoli Netcool/influence and Tivoli business service manager. Cisco has been rebranding IBM's Tivoli Netcool as Cisco data core for some time, and or not it's being used through more than 500 of its clients.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. and ARMONK, N.Y. - June 14, 2007 - Cisco® and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an expansion of their existing strategic alliance to deliver new standards-based telecommunications service assurance and fault-management solutions. Next month, Cisco will introduce a service-management solution that combines Cisco Active Network Abstraction (ANA) technology with the industry-leading IBM Tivoli software to help service providers centrally manage new services. The new offering, Cisco Assurance Management Solution, will provide network fault monitoring, trouble isolation, and real-time service-level event management for large multi-vendor networks on a next-generation mediation platform.
Using the Cisco ANA platform mediation capabilities and IBM Tivoli technology, the Cisco Assurance Management Solution will help service provider customers change and evolve network devices and configurations without having to change their service management and operations support systems applications. This solution will enable service providers to more effectively manage Internet Protocol (IP)-based services and help dramatically reduce implementation and maintenance costs.
"Cisco and IBM have a long history of working together to improve the competitiveness of their joint service provider customers," said Al Zollar, general manager of Tivoli Software for IBM. "This new agreement gives service providers the combined benefits of proven IBM Tivoli technology together with Cisco's breakthrough approach to network mediation with an open, standards-based solution. As IBM looks to help their service provider customers deliver higher return on their network and IT investments, Cisco is a natural partner."
The initial version of the Cisco Assurance Management Solution will include IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool/Precision technology. Cisco is also able to incorporate other Tivoli technologies in future versions of assurance solutions. Cisco will offer professional services to help ensure rapid implementation by its customers.
"Cisco Active Network Abstraction is the basis of future solutions being delivered to their service provider customers. This expanded collaboration with IBM provides customers with the confidence that Cisco's new device management and mediation products will work with IBM software," said Cliff Meltzer, senior vice president of the Network Management Technology Group at Cisco. "The commitment from IBM demonstrates the unique capabilities of Cisco ANA and will provide their joint customers with a platform that transforms their network into a strategic business asset."
The Cisco ANA is designed to be interoperable with IBM Tivoli software, including Tivoli Netcool/Impact and Tivoli Business Service Manager. This expanded alliance will help enable both new and existing Tivoli Netcool and Cisco Info Center customers to effectively take advantage of the benefits of Cisco's ANA platform. Cisco Info Center is the Cisco-branded version of Tivoli Netcool which is used by more than 500 of Cisco's largest customers. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Since 1999, IBM and Cisco have forged a unique, broad-reaching strategic alliance to better enable their customers' ability to innovate. The IBM and Cisco strategic alliance has more than 25,000 joint customers. The companies are a proven resource for the seamless and rapid integration of business processes, industry knowledge, information technologies, and the intelligence of the network, maximizing their customers' ability to envision, design, and innovate to exceed business objectives.
For more information about Cisco Assurance Management Solution, Cisco ANA, and the collaboration, visit www.cisco.com/go/ana.
IBM Tivoli Netcool software has been selected by more than 1,000 service providers globally, including all of the top 20 carriers. The software helps service providers ensure quality, reduce operational costs and speed time to market. IBM's recent acquisition of Vallent further extends IBM's ability to help service providers address emerging opportunities in next-generation network transformation, fixed/mobile convergence, and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployment.
For more information about IBM Tivoli and Tivoli Netcool software, visit www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/service-provider/.
ARMONK, N.Y. and CAMDEN, N.J., July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Coriell Institute for Medical Research, the largest biobank of living human cells, is using IBM technology to advance its research of human genetic disease and to more efficiently maintain its massive collection of biological resources.
As a result, Coriell can now better protect millions of genetic samples while also increasing its capacity to manage the volume of data generated by analyzing the genomes of large and diverse populations needed to examine the causes of critical diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.
As a vital player in modern biomedical research, Coriell manages cryogenic freezers that can house up to 48,000 samples and which may experience a mechanical failure while in use. In the past, response teams had only been alerted in the event of a total failure of the unit requiring the staff to quickly move the biological samples to a standby unit. With the implementation of IBM monitoring software, Coriell researchers are now instantly alerted in advance to quickly respond before any mechanical failure occurs and in turn, protect the integrity of the sample.
Scientists from major research centers around the world draw upon Coriell's diverse collections of biomaterials, which contain cell lines, DNA, and other samples, representing more than half of approximately 4,000 known genetic diseases. In addition, Coriell is exploring advancement in personalized medicine using one's genetic information to tailor individual patient medical care while ensuring an individual's privacy.
"The healthcare industry is placing greater emphasis on the use of genetic information in making medical decisions," said Scott Megill, Coriell's Chief Information Officer. "As a leader in genomics, Coriell is exploring the clinical utility of this personalized approach to medicine. The breadth of data output created by their research introduced new challenges to analyze and store this information," Megill added. "IBM is enabling Coriell to more effectively gather and analyze this data for their research."
Coriell needed to address the challenge of supporting data collections generated from more than two million ampules of cells, one million vials of DNA, and hundreds of thousands of other biomaterials. In addition, the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative Research Study – which captures an individual's genetic differences to better understand causes for diseases – created an additional data challenge to the Institute. Each participant in the study is genotyped using an array-based technology producing more than two million points of data, equaling approximately 1.5 GB of information per person. With a target goal of 100,000 participants for the study, Coriell faced a massive information storage demand that was simply too cost prohibitive using legacy storage platforms.
Coriell turned to IBM and IBM Business Partner Mainline to help drive the organization's technology transformation to help manage the millions of biological samples and associated data. The use of IBM storage system at Coriell scales more cost effectively than traditional disk storage and, as a result of using IBM's low-cost storage technology, Coriell has reduced its information storage costs by 30 percent.
In order to meet the challenges of a biobanking center that supports national and international scientific research, Coriell also looked to IBM to provide a process tracking system to quickly and easily adapt to the nuances of such a diverse biological collection. Layered with Coriell's inventory management system, IBM software allows Coriell to electronically track each sample as it moves through various laboratory processes. These samples vary greatly in type, disease state, age, and other characteristics, and the ability to quickly pinpoint the location and specific processing stage of a particular sample provides a key advantage to Coriell.
Today, with the deployment of a new sensor array and IBM's monitoring software, Coriell has the ability to monitor real time freezer parameters, helping Coriell to proactively intercede before unit failure, effectively removing risk to the samples. In addition, Coriell now has the capability to understand the impact of those events on each individual sample. A wireless probe array installed in the nitrogen tanks, incubators, and freezers feeds data to a central monitoring system in real time to give each laboratory a view into all activity taking place within the units storing samples.
The intelligence now built into the functionality of the systems means Coriell can more effectively provide scientists with the highest-quality biological samples needed to answer their research questions.
"Globalization has created an enormous opportunity for small to midsize firms such as Coriell to collaborate with research centers around the world. As advanced technologies have become affordable and available, Coriell is able to keep costs down and increase efficiency while also driving innovation in the area of personalized medicine," said Andy Monshaw, general manager of IBM's Global Midmarket Business. "Aligning the right technology infrastructure to meet its Big Data challenges, Coriell is well positioned to promote tomorrow's medicines and treatments to help usher in a new era of medicine."
The complete Coriell solution is powered by IBM technology that includes: IBM XIV Storage System, IBM Tivoli Maximo, IBM Tivoli Netcool and IBM WebSphere Lombardi Edition.
Coriell Institute for Medical Research (www.coriell.org) is an internationally known, non-profit, biomedical research institution headquartered in Camden, NJ. Founded in 1953, Coriell is the world's leading biobank resource for biological materials, a leader in induced pluripotent stem cell research, and home of the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative® (CPMC®) research study, a forward-looking project aimed at understanding the utility of genome-informed personalized medicine (www.cpmc.coriell.org).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 11, 2014) - Moogsoft, the leading provider of operational intelligence for the new era of software announced today it has received certification of its integration with ServiceNow. This certification signifies Incident.MOOG's successful completion of a set of defined tests focused on integration interoperability, security and performance. The certification also ensures utilization of best practices in the design and implementation of Incident.MOOG's integration with ServiceNow.
Incident.MOOG is a next-generation manager of managers (MoM) for IT Ops and DevOps management. It improves IT operational efficiency with adaptive machine learning to detect abnormalities in application, service and infrastructure behavior in real time, instead of depending on brittle rules and models. It also creates a dynamic teaming environment for stakeholders to accelerate resolution and knowledge sharing. The integration with ServiceNow allows customers to generate a ServiceNow incident from data held in an Incident.MOOG situation, share a narrative between the situation and incident, and provide support for a closure model. This allows customers to bridge the gap between uncorrelated events, and service incidents more quickly than is typical in disparate environments. The result is dramatic and measureable improvement in workflow, detecting emerging problems days faster than existing tools, and reducing actionable trouble tickets by 80 percent or more.
"All too often, customers report outages before IT is aware of the problem, creating an avalanche of trouble tickets and desperate 'all hands' calls to resolve the issue," said Mike Silvey, co-founder and executive vice president of business development at Moogsoft. "Incident.MOOG detects problems before customers complain and orchestrates efficient workflows to restore service. The integration of Incident.MOOG will transform the incident management process and bring it into the twenty-first century."
"As the UK and EMEA reseller of Incident.MOOG and a ServiceNow Preferred Solutions Partner, Innovise ESM helped develop the initial integration between Incident.MOOG and ServiceNow. They saw the value in moving away from managing alerts from discrete devices to managing situations that impact customers," said Andy Fleck, Moogsoft business manager at Innovise ESM. "This opens up new possibilities in terms of incident early detection, trouble ticket reduction and focusing work effort on higher-value tasks, while operating in an agile application and infrastructure environment."
"As a ServiceNow Master Solutions Partner and a facilitator of critical integrated technologies, Fruition Partners sees the enormous potential of Incident.MOOG to foster tighter collaboration between IT Operations and IT Service Management," said Patrick Stonelake, chief growth officer at Fruition Partners. "This connection is of great interest to their customers, as they continue to move toward dynamic cloud environments and continuous delivery of applications and services."
Moogsoft will share details about Incident.MOOG integration with ServiceNow in a webinar on Nov. 12, 2014.
About Moogsoft Moogsoft is the leading provider of operational intelligence for the new era of software, merging adaptive machine learning and socialized workflows into next-generation IT incident detection and remediation management. Its flagship service, Incident.MOOG, detects anomalies in real time to reveal service-affecting incidents as they unfold, dramatically reducing Mean-Time-to-Restore (MTTR), and enables knowledge capture and reuse through collaborative "Situation Rooms." Moogsoft's founders are the original team behind IBM Tivoli Netcool and RiverSoft. The company is backed by Wing Venture Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Cisco Investments and others. For more information, visit www.moogsoft.com and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Moogsoft.


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Eurozone Economy on Pace With U.S.
Fourth-quarter output, lowest unemployment in seven years, higher inflation eases some concerns
Employees of Renault factory in Dieppe, France, in September. On an annualized basis, growth in the eurozone picked up to 2.0% in the fourth quarter from 1.8% in the third quarter.Photo: © philippe wojazer / reuters/Reuters
By Paul Hannon
and William Horobin
Updated Jan. 31, 2017 4:39 pm ET
PARIS—The eurozone economy kept pace with that of the U.S. for the first time since 2008 last year and its jobless rate fell to a seven-year low, putting the currency area on a steadier footing at the start of a year clouded by political uncertainty.
A fourth-quarter pickup allowed the eurozone economy to expand by 1.7% compared with 1.6% for the U.S. in calendar 2016, demonstrating the currency zone's resilience in the face of repeated shocks to confidence, including the U.K.'s June vote to depart the European Union and terrorist attacks in France, Belgium and Germany.
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