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    Events preview: This week in development cooperation

    This week, Devex is hosting a webinar on how to engage passive candidates for a successful global development recruitment strategy. Also tune in on Thursday for our new Facebook Live show, Long Story Short. Check out our preview for more.

    By Devex Editor // 30 January 2018
    Photo by: Devex

    Below are some of the most noteworthy events for the week starting Jan. 30:

    FEATURED EVENTS

    How to engage passive candidates
    Jan. 31, 9.30 a.m. EST
    Online

    Join Devex's Alli Blount to learn how to create a system for tracking passive candidates, way before vacancies arise. During the event you will learn how to search efficiently and create a system to organize candidates; reach out to and engage passive candidates; create interest in your organization; and record past discussions and maintain long-term relationships.

    Long Story Short: 5 stories to watch in 2018
    Feb. 1, 12. p.m. EST
    Online

    On this week’s Long Story Short, we’ll cover who's paying for development (spoiler alert: China); the securitization of aid; humanitarian financing; humanitarian innovation and the rise of blockchain + AI; and gender equality + #AidToo.

    EVENTS IN THE NEXT 7 DAYS

    Opportunity for All: Promoting Growth, Jobs, and Inclusiveness in the Arab World
    Jan. 29-30
    Marrakesh, Morocco

    Addressing Challenges in Global Health Security 2018
    Jan. 29 - Feb. 1
    Geneva, Switzerland

    Prince Mahidol Award Conference
    Jan. 29 - Feb. 3
    Bangkok, Thailand

    Transform: Africa Business and Investment Forum
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Jan. 30

    ‘Building back better:’ A resilient Caribbean
    Jan. 30
    London, United Kingdom; Online

    Employment and Violence in Fragile States
    Jan. 30
    Washington, D.C., United States; Online

    What’s the Future of Pay-for-Success Development? Perspectives from the Experts Behind a New Development Impact Bond in Cameroon
    Jan. 30
    Washington, D.C., United States

    SID-Washington Career Fair
    Jan. 30
    Washington, D.C., United States

    The Value of a Global Health Security Index in Reducing the Threat Posed by Emerging Infectious Diseases
    Jan. 30
    Washington, D.C., United States

    The Future of Livestock: Enhancing sustainability, responsibility and efficiency
    Jan. 30
    Washington, D.C., United States

    Power Dynamics: Energy Sector Reform and the Political Economy of Energy Access (Greening Governance Seminar Series)
    Jan. 30
    Washington, D.C., United States

    8th ADBI-OECD-ILO Roundtable on Labor Migration in Asia
    Jan. 30-31
    Incheon, Republic of Korea

    Economic and Social Council Youth Forum
    New York, United States
    Jan. 30-31

    5th Greater Mekong Subregion Environment Ministers’ Meeting
    Jan. 30 - Feb. 1
    Chiang Mai, Thailand

    World Bank Group Host First Ever Event for Ideas for Action Africa, IdeaLab, Information Session
    Lagos, Nigeria
    Jan. 30 - Feb. 8

    Digital Products and Economic Lives in Africa
    Jan. 31
    Washington, D.C., United States

    Turning Trash into Social Value: Can a Private Sector Model Work for Poor Women in India?
    Jan. 31
    Washington, D.C., United States

    DREAMS, Gender Innovations, and Results
    Jan. 31
    Washington, D.C., United States

    Lunch & Learn: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Global Health Workplace
    Jan. 31
    Washington, D.C., United States

    Ending FGM: The Role of Laws, Education and Social Norms
    Feb. 1
    Washington, D.C., United States

    Cash Transfer Programming: Taking stock and looking ahead
    Feb. 1
    London, United Kingdom; Online

    Women in Global Health and Development Professions
    Feb. 1
    Seattle, Washington, United States

    Cities Research Seminar Series: Inclusive Cities for the Urban Working Poor: Need to Protect and Enhance Informal Livelihoods
    Feb. 2
    Washington, D.C., United States

    Integrated Water Resources Management Training for Sustainable Development
    Feb. 5-8
    Shah Alam, Malaysia

    Sustaining pathways out of extreme poverty
    Feb. 6
    London, United Kingdom; Online

    INTERNATIONAL OBSERVANCES AND EVENTS

    World Wetlands Day
    Feb. 2

    World Cancer Day
    Feb. 4

    International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
    Feb. 6

    Know of an upcoming event that might be of interest to the international development community? Leave a comment below or email us at news@devex.com.

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