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Find out more about JI-RISE, the new initiative from the Jameel Institute at Imperial and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine that, starting in Gaza and Sudan, will deliver critical data – including on traumatic injuries, malnutrition, mortality and vaccination planning – to humanitarian organisations and policymakers amid crises to help them effectively prioritise the aid response. Supported by Community Jameel, JI-RISE is collaborating with a consortium of humanitarian organisations and research institutions, including the World Health Organization, the United Nations OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Geneva Water Hub, a Centre of Competence on Water for Peace. JI-RISE expands on work previously funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to model future mortality rates in Gaza. https://lnkd.in/euXS6xYY

Starting in Gaza and Sudan, the Jameel Institute–Realtime Intelligent Support for Emergencies uses the power of data modelling to cut through the fog of war and give humanitarians a clearer picture of what is needed, by whom, when and where – thereby helping deliver aid more effectively and saving lives. Led by (and with thanks to) OJ Watson, Bhargavi Rao and colleagues at the Jameel Institute at Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London, JI-RISE is supported by Community Jameel. To transform the humanitarian response for people injured, malnourished and at risk of disease in conflict zones, JI-RISE will deliver data on traumatic injuries, malnutrition, mortality and vaccination planning to a consortium of partners, including the World Health Organization, UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Geneva Water Hub, a Centre of Competence on Water for Peace. Thanks also to Mark Bryson-Richardson, who co-chaired the meeting with me in February on harnessing British science for the Gaza emergency, at which the idea for JI-RISE first emerged, and other FCDO colleagues – including Charlotte Watts and Chris Lewis – for funding work to model future mortality rates in Gaza on which JI-RISE expands. https://lnkd.in/dhWXGMK7

Pratham-Jameel Second Chance enables 10,000 girls and young women in India who have dropped out of school to complete their secondary education each year. In its first year, the programme helped 11,399 girls and women re-engage with formal education, with thousands passing their grade 10 exams. The partnership between Community Jameel and the Pratham Education Foundation extends the work of the Second Chance programme, which has reached 40,000 learners across 12 states in India since 2011.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) affiliates Daron Acemoğlu and James Robinson, and their collaborator Simon Johnson. The prize was awarded in recognition of their work on the relationship between political systems and economic growth. Daron and James bring the number of Nobel laureates in the J-PAL network to 5, joining J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and longtime affiliate Michael Kremer, who shared the prize in 2019. Daron is pictured (second from right) together with J-PAL global executive director Iqbal Dhaliwal (right) and Pratham Education Foundation CEO Rukmini Banerji (third from right) and other colleagues at the J-PAL headquarters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are standing in front of an embroidered quilt by Fumiko Nakayama entitled ‘People of the world’. Hand-stitched using the traditional mola appliqué technique of the Guna people from Panamá, the quilt is a gift from Community Jameel.

Yesterday, we and The King’s Foundation announced the new Jameel House of World Traditional Arts in Scotland, a school for students of traditional arts worldwide, and a new Jameel House Scholarship for students from the Arab world at the network of Jameel Houses in Cairo, Jeddah and Scotland and at The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London. To mark the announcement, our founder and chairman, Mohammed Jameel KBE, presented His Majesty The King, royal founding president of The King’s Foundation, with an embroidered quilt by Fumiko Nakayama during a visit to Dumfries House, the headquarters of The King’s Foundation, which will host the new school. Hand-stitched using the traditional mola appliqué technique of the Guna people from Panamá, the quilt will be hung in the Jameel House in Scotland. Left to right: The King’s Foundation’s executive director, development, Colin Mackenzie-Blackman, and CEO, Kristina Murrin CBE, and Community Jameel’s founder and chairman, Mohammed Jameel KBE, vice chairman, Hassan Jameel, and director, George Richards.

Community Jameel and The King's Foundation are pleased to announce the Jameel House of World Traditional Arts in Scotland. A global school for students of traditional arts worldwide, the Jameel House in Scotland will deliver a year-round programme of workshops, short courses and residencies, covering modules from sacred geometry and colour harmony to woodwork and gypsum carving. A new Jameel House Scholarship, set to launch in early 2025, will support Arab students of the traditional arts in Scotland, London, Cairo and Jeddah. The announcement follows a visit to Dumfries House – the headquarters of The King's Foundation, where the new school will be hosted – by His Majesty The King, royal founding president of The King’s Foundation, and Community Jameel's founder and chairman, Mohammed Jameel KBE, vice chairman, Hassan Jameel, and director, George Richards.

The BBC looks at the role of water-buffalo as “living tractors” in transforming post-industrial wastelands, including — explains Alon Schwabe from CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art — in the wetlands outside Istanbul, where development is threatening the delicately-balanced ecosystem that supports the landscape, frogs, fish, birds, the water-buffalo and the pastoralist herders who farm them for milk. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gcVdDgbi

We have partnered with Shinshu University to field-test a prototype device that uses a simple hand-pump to power a reverse-osmosis filter for making water safer to drink. The device is being piloted in India in two communities facing severe water crises: - in Rajasthan, the most water-stressed state in India with high risk of pollution to groundwater from farming and industry, where we are collaborating with Seva Mandir, and - in the Sundarbans, a low-lying coastal region of West Bengal where cyclones drive saline into drinking-water sources, in collaboration with the Rupantaran Foundation. Pollutants, salt-water intrusion and water-borne diseases can lead to sickness and even death. The new water filter device is highly-effective at reducing solids dissolved in water by over 90%, to well within the World Health Organisation range for safe drinking. Read more via the link below, including from Ambreen Shaikh, our senior programmes officer, Ronak Shah, chief executive of Seva Mandir, and Smita Sen, founder of the Rupantaran Foundation. https://lnkd.in/divcy95b

Join us at UNGA79 x New York Climate Week for a discussion of the levers that link water stress and food insecurity to global instability, with a specific focus on international trade and security. Sign up to attend at the Instituto Cervantes New York, with senior representatives from the Spanish and British governments alongside water expert Glada Lahn from Chatham House; Fiona Hill CBE, founder of the Future Resilience Forum (and former No 10 Downing Street chief of staff); food expert Greg Sixt from J-WAFS at MIT; trade expert Tiago Devesa from McKinsey Global Institute; Carlos Cosín, CEO of water company Almar Water Solutions; and our director, George Richards.

🇦🇺 “Australia is a staunch supporter of the work of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).” Read remarks on the importance of evidence-based development by Andrew Leigh, Australia’s assistant minister for competition, charities and treasury and assistant minister for employment, delivered in a speech in honour of the late Dr Peter Crawley to the Asian Development Bank Institute research conference in Manila, and published by the Development Policy Centre. https://lnkd.in/giGirM5J