Employing an ethnographic approach, I analyse the agentive practices of a codevelopment project named Africoop, showing how it navigates migration-development field by blending egalitarianism rights-based concerns with hierarchical political authority, foregrounding economic neoliberalism and translating development. Africoop advocated for migrants rights opened up opportunities social mobility...

Charities frequently announce contributions of donors as they accrue. Doing so induces donors to play a sequential-move rather than simultaneous-move game. We examine the conditions under which a charity prefers such sequential play. It is known that if donors only value contributions through their effect on the total provision of a public good, then the charity will not announce contributions ...

Human rights have become an important aspect of development policy and programming. This trend is reflected in the human rights policies that a growing number of bilateral and multilateral aid agencies have adopted over the past ten years. This chapter reviews donor approaches and rationales for working on human rights. The analysis shows that human rights work is considered as an objective in ...

In the past, the human rights agenda lacked persuasive power over international development practitioners for two main reasons: 1) human rights are inherently political and therefore threaten the acceptance of international development agendas by recipient governments, and 2) human rights are not conducive to benchmarks and indicators, which donors require as measures of accountability, transpa...

Background: Iron deficiency and its related anemia, which is the world’s most widespread nutritional deficiency, can be one of the possible consequences of regular blood donation. This research was carried out to compare iron stores in regular blood donors and first-time blood donors in Tehran Regional Blood Transfusion Center. Materials and Methods: This study was carried out on 2,149 male bl...

We examine contributions to a public good when some donors do not know the true value of the good. If donors in such an environment determine the sequence of moves, two contribution orders may arise as equilibria. Either the uninformed and informed donors contribute simultaneously or the informed contribute prior to the uninformed. Sequential moves result in a larger provision of the public goo...

Abstract The Egyptian state's publication of its first National Human Rights Strategy 2021–2026 (NHRS) (2021) on the anniversary September 11th attacks came at crossroads Western pressure to improve human rights and use counterterrorism silence voices. recent arrests Coptic activists, dubbing them “terrorists” pretext disturbing public peace instigating sectarianism, follows regime's capitaliza...

Abstract International funding is increasingly important in supporting conservation mega‐biodiverse countries. However, it remains unclear which donors invest objectives and where, making difficult to identify gaps key actors influence. Here we identified 1947 foreign‐aided projects South America's major deforestation frontiers summarized their interventions over time space. We found that conse...