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Thanks for stopping by. This DFID Bloggers site is now closed and will no longer be updated regularly. However, all the blogs that appeared here will be archived if you want to look back at any of our posts. Why …

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Hurry, or we’ll be late

Posted by: Jummai Bappah, Posted on: 7 October 2009 - Categories: Nigeria

It’s just 7.15 am and it is already hot. Not from the morning sun (even though it's out and shining), but from the high overnight temperature that has not receded (talk about climate change!). It was a hot night and …

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Khartoum to Kinshasa: Ramadan to Eid

Posted by: Sarra Deya Ismail, Posted on: 7 October 2009 - Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo

Coming from Khartoum, inevitably, the first thing you notice about Kinshasa is the weather. While similarly humid (I left at the end of the Khartoum rainy season), Kinshasa was a good ten to fifteen degrees cooler than Khartoum. And so …

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Kinshasa? Where’s that?!

Posted by: Sarra Deya Ismail, Posted on: 25 September 2009 - Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo

That was the reaction I got from friends and family from my generation when I told people I was going to work in Kinshasa for two months with DFID DRC. People from older generations asked me, ‘Is that the country …

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Packing the painting

Posted by: Martin Leach, Posted on: 16 September 2009 - Categories: Africa

Don’t you get worried when you are given a leaving present as you are about to board the plane, and your suitcase is already stuffed to the gills with souvenirs? So when a friend gave me a beautiful painting at my leaving do last week, …

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Rain harvesting under the baobab

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 16 September 2009 - Categories: Education, Girls & Women, Nigeria

Baobab trees (genus Adansonia) are found in Africa and Australia, and have the ability to store literally tens of thousands of litres of water within their trunk giving them their distinctive shape. This gives rise to their informal name of 'bottle …

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Sarah Ferguson and the life-saving Prime Minister!

Posted by: Sarah Sanyahumbi, Posted on: 14 September 2009 - Categories: Girls & Women, Health, Nepal

The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, was here last weekend to see the work that Nepal is doing on health care provision for mothers and babies. The Duchess, who – for those that don’t know, used to be married to …

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Turning the tables on the donors in Rwanda

Posted by: Martin Leach, Posted on: 2 September 2009 - Categories: Africa, Other

Who has the main say - donors or recipient countries? Isn't it obvious? Don't donors have all the resources and so control the show? No, it isn’t always like that, and in the last few years there has been a shift towards a more …

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Keeping gender on the agenda

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 2 September 2009 - Categories: Education, Girls & Women, Nigeria

A current hot topic in development circles is whether at the upcoming UN general assembly meeting in New York,  the advice of a topic level panel will be heeded to create a UN ‘super-agency’  for women. Currently a number of different …

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Progress on the Accra Agenda for Action

Posted by: Neil Squires, Posted on: 2 September 2009 - Categories: Africa

In my last blog post, on coordination of work in the health sector in Mozambique, I mentioned evidence emerging from a recent survey (the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey) that shows some of the significant improvements that Mozambique has achieved over …

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Queen of health coordination leaves Mozambique

Posted by: Neil Squires, Posted on: 25 August 2009 - Categories: Africa, Health

This week we are saying goodbye to Esther Bouma, who has been responsible for coordinating the 26 different development agencies that work with the Ministry of Health here in Mozambique. Esther, pictured here at her desk in the architecturally stunning …

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