DFID spends over 40% of its annual programme budget through multilateral organisations, including the United Nations, World Bank and European Union - on everything from peacekeeping and responding to humanitarian disasters, to delivering education, immunisation and infrastructure programmes. It is …
"Can you call someone?" I kept being asked, "We want to be able to vote." I set off at 4:45 this morning - bleary-eyed but as tightly wound with excitement and anticipation as the city of Kinshasa has been throughout …
The Department for International Development is already the most respected of the country-to-country development agencies. But in the past it has been distracted by extraneous domestic political interests. In Andrew Mitchell, the department has a Secretary of State who is …
I'm sure by this point the suspense is almost too much. But the wait is finally over. I can now reveal that the winner of our Best of the Blogs 2010 poll is… Colum Wilson | Killing relief with kindness …
As one of the DFID Bloggers veterans - has it really been two years already? – I've been given the honour of shortlisting the best of our blogs from 2010. So, which was your favourite? Browse through the top ten …
After months without returning to my old neighbourhood, this August bank holiday Monday found me two doors away from the house I first lived in when I moved to Maputo, for another meeting at the Malaria Consortium office. However this time I had …
On 26 April I joined the new British High Commissioner to Mozambique as he presented his credentials to President Guebuza. It was a different start to the day, with police whistles and sirens halting the traffic and with a short …
There was an absolute torrential downpour of rain last week, flooding the roads of Maputo and preventing a number of colleagues arriving at work. It was a bit of a wet welcome then for Beverley Warmington, DFID’s Director of West …
It's been a busy week! The big events kicked off in the Minister of Health’s meeting room on the 8th floor of the Ministry yesterday afternoon in a meeting called by Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido to discuss this week's visit …
The DFID office in Mozambique is quiet now, with many people already on leave. However, we still have a couple of important meetings before the end of the year, discussing financial management and planning for the annual review of the …
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