Neil Squires
Human Development Adviser, Mozambique
I am the Human Development Adviser for DFID Mozambique, covering health, education and HIV/AIDS. I arrived in Maputo in August 2007, from 3 years with the EC in Brussels and before that DFID in Bangladesh. As an ex district health officer in Malawi in the early 1990’s this return to Africa feels a bit like coming home.
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 [...]
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