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Grassroots development, gas – and a guru
Posted 18 March 2010
In Chennai recently to attend a conference organised by the Madras School of Economics and the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, I was honoured to be asked to participate in a panel discussion (Challenges in Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation: Research, Training and Policy Possibilities) chaired by Professor MS Swaminathan, the agriculturalist largely credited with [...]
The Memorandum of Understanding
Posted 10 March 2010
The build up to one of the big twice yearly policy discussions between the Ministry of Health and its partners was well underway last week. The policy dialogue, known as the CCS (the coordinating committee for health), Â will be held tomorrow on the 11th March. However, on Monday and Tuesday last week, health partners had [...]
Where are the numbers?
Posted 8 March 2010 by Ian Attfield
Just before Xmas, as reported on my 'back to basics' post, Kano State was just starting the data entry of the annual school census that the Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) programme had been supporting. My managers are always challenging me '.. Yes Ian that's great but what are the numbers, how many kids [...]
Hope of a new start in Nepal
Posted 22 February 2010
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but lots has been happening here in Nepal. If I’d written before Christmas, I think that my blog would have been pretty downbeat. Up until almost the very end of the year there was very little progress on the peace process and it was getting harder to be [...]
