Dominic Parker
Humanitarian Adviser
I’m the DFID humanitarian adviser for southern Africa region, covering 11 countries. I started in July 2008, after 10 years with various NGOs in humanitarian, recovery and post-conflict work. I probably knew more about Afghanistan and Pakistan than southern Africa before starting this job, but that is changing fast now, with 3 visits to Zimbabwe already under my belt!
Return to Zimbabwe
Posted 15 January 2010
During the last few months, I've been working away at my desk job in London, as well as making a couple of monitoring visits to Zambia & Madagascar. As a keen cyclist, I was interested to meet the Zambikes social business in Lusaka, who've been building high quality bikes in Zambia, including a Zambulance and a Zamcart - bicycle-propelled medical transport and a heavy load [...]
