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Independent research & practical ideas for global prosperity
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 Nandini Oomman is director of the HIV/AIDS Monitor at the Center for Global Development. Full Bio Follow @NandiniOomman
Showing posts on the Views from the Center blog. View author posts on: Women, Development, and the Arab Spring: Moving from Protest to Political ParticipationOctober 28, 2011By Nandini Oomman in Women & Gender Tags: Women & Gender
This is a joint post with Jessica Brinton At a recent CGD breakfast with Johnny West on his new book Karama! Journeys Through the Arab Spring, our colleague Mead Over asked how women would benefit from the Arab Spring. Though he speaks Arabic and has spent 20 years in the region, West didn’t have much to share about the role and prospects of women. As West explained, he had very few opportunities to interact with women. Unfortunately, this is a piece of a broader reality: even when women have played a huge role in protest movements, they are rarely represented in accounts of the revolution. Comment »President Obama’s India Visit: Historic Moment for India and Global DevelopmentNovember 8, 2010By Nandini Oomman in Global Development Tags: Country Ownership, India, Trade
As President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama perhaps enjoyed their in-flight Bollywood entertainment and tandoori chicken en route to Mumbai, the world around them was a buzz about whom the President and First Lady will meet, what they will wear, and what this trip will lead to. In the United States, the news is focused on President Obama’s trip to India and other Asian “markets” as a way of creating jobs back home or on the more ridiculous and incorrect speculation about the cost of his trip. In India, people are both agog and proud that the President and First Lady of the United States of America chose to visit the largest democracy in the world. While trade and security (see here, here, and here) were on the top of the agenda, two other important messages about global development emerged. Read More… 1 Comment »Three Early Moves for Michelle Bachelet’s UN “Start-Up” for WomenSeptember 15, 2010By Nandini Oomman in Global Development Tags: White House Council on Women and Girls, Women, Women & Gender, World Bank
This post also appeared on the Huffington Post. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday named former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet to head UN Women (full name: UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women), a new UN entity. Congratulations to Dr. Bachelet! While the selection process was criticized for lacking openness and transparency, I hope that those of us, like me, who have been awaiting this appointment will put that concern behind us and let her get on with the job. In many ways, Michelle Bachelet is the ideal candidate, with the right credentials to make this important new entity function effectively: Read More… 4 Comments »Wanted Now: A Pragmatic and Visionary Leader for the Improved UN Entity for WomenOctober 2, 2009By Nandini Oomman in Global Development, Global Education, Inequality Tags: Inequality, UN, United Nations, WomenThis is a joint post with Geeta Rao Gupta. In all of last week’s hoopla in NYC with the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and the Clinton Global Initiative in full swing, news about an improved, composite U.N. entity for women (still to be formally named) went under the radar. The idea for consolidating several U.N. agencies into one has been in the works for about three years, but was finally adopted just two weeks ago. The resolution merely approves the creation of the entity and states that the Secretary General should announce the final plan for the structure and mission of the agency at next year’s UNGA. Now that’s classic UN style—to take one entire year to figure out what has already been figured out! It’s time for urgent and quick next steps, which if implemented smartly (not just politically) can make all the difference. Read More… 4 Comments »Obama, Clinton: Elevating Women’s Issues but Not Global Development?August 20, 2009By Nandini Oomman in Aid Effectiveness, Global Development, Global Health Policy Tags: Foreign Aid Reform, MCA, MCC, PEPFAR, U.S. Presidential Elections, USAIDThis blog entry also appeared on the Huffington Post. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton deserve high marks for their efforts to promote enhanced rights and opportunities for women in developing countries. Clinton’s persistent focus on raising women’s issues in every African country she visited last week add oomph to early and commendable policy steps by the White House and the State Department (here, here, here). But something important is missing: a clear, strong, overarching American agenda for global economic growth and development. Read More… Comment »The World According to Sesame Street MuppetsOctober 25, 2006By Nandini Oomman in HIV/AIDS, Migration and Labor Mobility Tags: HIV/AIDS
Sisimpur in Bangladesh has been co-produced with a local Bangladeshi company to address issues of poverty and gender inequality; Rruga Sesam and Ulica Sezam in Kosovo is aired in Albanian and Serbian to assist in the peace process; and in South Africa, Takalani Sesame addresses the very real daily challenges of children living in a country with one of the world’s most quickly growing HIV infection rates by creating an HIV+ muppet called Kami, who is wildly successful in communicating these messages to children, albeit with a few hiccups at the start. 1 Comment »
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