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 [...]
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