Westgate
I was in the UK when news of the Westgate attack started to break in Nairobi. My family and friends couldn't disguise the fact that they were pleased I was there and, by implication, not at the mall. I quickly …
Dealing with recurrent floods in Pakistan – my view after three years of consecutive floods
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Magnus WolfeMurray, Humanitarian Advisor, Posted on:
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Humanitarian, Pakistan
Intense rainfall across Pakistan this monsoon season has driven tens of thousands of people out of their homes and villages for the fourth year running. They sought shelter on raised land or in school buildings, victims to another extreme weather …
Women’s leadership as a force for change
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Gazalla Amin, Proprietor, Fasiam Agro Farms and 2013 Vital Voices VVLead Fellow, Posted on:
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Development Debates, Girls & Women
I was educated to be a doctor, and look at what I became! In India, we follow the instructions of our parents. As part of a generation and culture of doing what we are told, I dutifully attended medical school. …
An average school
"You should get out more!” my team leader has been nagging me for months, sitting in our office block in Dar es Salaam. Getting to see, and hopefully understanding more, about the real situation in rural Tanzania is essential. A …
A wave of optimism in Pakistan
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Moazzam Malik, Director, West Asia and Stabilisation Division, Posted on:
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Pakistan
I have been working in and on Pakistan for many years, starting there as an economist in the 1980s. It is perhaps the most exciting and challenging partner country for anyone interested in development. It has it all – conflict …
Shining a spotlight on aid transparency
My name is Morag Patrick and I joined DFID this year to work on increasing the transparency of aid to improve both the impact of UK aid and wider aid impact through the international system. I plan to blog about …
I see change coming in Pakistan
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Sakandar, DFID Pakistan’s Representative for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Posted on:
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Pakistan
For a long time Pakistanis have been talking about change. In governance terms we call it reform. The message, however, is clear – business as usual is not working. Not far from where I work in DFID Pakistan there is …
Baseline the Bard
Tanzania's founding father Mwalimu (Swahili teacher) Julius Nyerere was certainly both erudite and multi-lingual; as he guided his country to independence in the 1960s he translated Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar into Swahili in his spare time. He …
Pakistan - a personal perspective
In the UK, Pakistan is regularly in the news, and most of it is bad. So you may find it hard to believe that anyone would work here by choice. But I do - and I really enjoy it! Pakistan …
Burning the midnight MOOC
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Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on:
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Education, Tanzania, Technology
With a day job dedicated to preaching the virtues of education - and how it should improve, I recently felt obliged to get my hands 'dirty' once more and enrolled on a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to see what …
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