Martin Leach

Martin Leach

Head of the Africa Conflict and Humanitarian Unit
I am head of the Africa Conflict and Humanitarian Unit. Recently, I have acted as head of DFID Rwanda and have previously worked as a Rural Livelihoods Adviser in Bangladesh and Kenya.

The event that flopped

Posted 22 October 2009

Have you ever organised an event that flopped? In 1985 I was working for an international development NGO, and I organised a young people's fund raising event in a park in West London. It failed; few people came and even less money was raised: poor publicity, bad organisation, and, of course, the date was wrong. On [...]