Pardee Initiative Publications

2020

• Addressing Employment Obstacles for Young Syrian Refugee Women

  Namita Datta, Louay Constant, Natanee Thawesaengskulthai, Hannah Acheson-Field

  This Note builds on research covering the three countries with the highest concentration of Syrian refugees displaced since 2011: Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon.

• Barriers to Employment That Women Face in Egypt: Policy Challenges and Considerations

  Louay Constant, Ifeanyi Edochie, Peter Glick, Jeffrey Martini, Chandra Garber

  Young women in Egypt face substantial inequalities in job opportunities and wages. In this report, the authors examine issues (such as childcare costs, negative attitudes, and sexual harassment) that constrain women's employment and could hinder improvement of Egypt's economic outlook. The authors also consider initiatives that are underway to address these challenges and present policy considerations to build on these efforts.

• A Complexity Approach for Reducing Disaster Risks for Marginalized Urban Populations: Comparing DRR Interventions Across Four Cities

  Aaron Clark-Ginsberg

  This chapter conceptualizes cities and their risks as a complex adaptive system and examines the methods for risk reduction.

• Crisis Beyond the Crises: MENA's Youth Unemployment Problem

  Krishna B. Kumar

  An unwavering commitment to fostering youth employment- and thus to overcome the crisis beyond the crises- seems necessary to ensure a prosperous future for the youthful MENA region, and critical to guarantee stability and security in the time to come.

• Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards a New Normal

  Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Jonathan S. Blake, Karishma Patel

  This chapter introduces some of the key issues facing scholars and practitioners of disaster risk reduction in urban areas, which are now home to over half of the global population.

• Hybrid Governance of Disaster Management in Freetown, Monrovia, and Dar Es Salaam

  Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Jonathan S. Blake, Karishma Patel

  This article introduces a hybrid governance perspective to disaster management. Hybrid governance refers to situations where state and non-state actors collectively provide key services.

• Shine Your Eyes: Technology, Policy, and a Need for Vigilance in Detecting Counterfeit Antimalarials in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Samantha McBirney

  Explores ways to reduce the prevalence of substandard and falsified pharmaceuticals including counterfeit antimalarials.

2018

• Challenges to the Integration of Syrian Refugees

  Ernesto F. L. Amaral, Mahlet Atakilt Woldetsadik, Gabriela Armenta

  In this study, we provide an overview of the situation of Syrian refugees and other non-citizens living in host countries. We explored the cases of Turkey, Germany, the United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, Canada and Australia.

• Examining the Food-Energy-Water and Conflict Nexus

  Michele Abbott, Morgan Bazilian, Daniel Egel, Henry H. Willis

  This article provides an in-depth review of the interactions between insecurity and conflict within the component sectors of the FEW nexus.