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Lessons from Malawi

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 2 June 2014 - Categories: Africa, Education
School kids in Malawi. Picture: Ian Attfield/DFID

In the spirit of the UK aid watchbody ICAI's recommendation to ramp up institutional learning within DFID, a welcome initiative for advisers like myself is to support programme design and review in other countries, promoting the sharing of experience and …

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Who’s the best at development cooperation?

Posted by: Hannah Ryder, Team Leader for Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, Posted on: 24 March 2014 - Categories: Other

My primary school had some quite strong incentives to drive up performance. Every end of term, our teachers would test us and rank my classmates and I against each other. It was the extremes that mattered – top and bottom. …

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A new deal for working in risky places?

Posted by: Hannah Ryder, Team Leader for Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, Posted on: 16 September 2013 - Categories: Other

Here in the UK, many news stories we hear about Somalia are negative. Somalia is one of the world's riskiest places, alongside countries like Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Twenty one out of the 28 countries that DFID …

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A whirlwind pace of reforms

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 30 January 2010 - Categories: Education, Nigeria

Another leader making waves, this time of education reform, is the Hon. Commissioner of Education in Kwara State, Mr Bolaji Abdulahi. DFID education programmes have been working in Kwara since 2007 and we have constantly struggled to keep up with his …

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Making sure people get the 'real deal' when they buy prescription drugs

Posted by: Adam Smith, Posted on: 6 February 2009 - Categories: Health

One of my team's largest projects is the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA). Launched last year, it aims to improve the quality and availability of drugs in 7 pilot countries, while also making those drugs more affordable. It does this by bringing …

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