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Making the Global Fund work for Mozambique

Posted by: Neil Squires, Posted on: 29 January 2010 - Categories: Other

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 …

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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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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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Raising money to improve health

Posted by: Neil Squires, Posted on: 29 June 2009 - Categories: Health

I have been eagerly awaiting this web link to the report of the Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems. One of the major outcomes of the UN Millennium Development Goal Call to Action, high level event held in …

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A few days in the field

Posted by: Adam Jackson, Posted on: 10 June 2009 - Categories: Asia, Economic Development, Health

I’m just back from a trip to the far north west of Bangladesh, near the Indian border. It was a very welcome, cool and quiet change from Dhaka. I first took part in a review of joint donor support to …

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Where are the students?

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 29 May 2009 - Categories: Education, Nigeria

Working for an organisation that funds development work (in my case DFID) means that I frequently receive requests from worthy causes for financial support. I recently got a call from a Western volunteer living in Nigeria with a difference; a brand …

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Mozambique signs its Global Fund application

Posted by: Neil Squires, Posted on: 29 May 2009 - Categories: Africa, Health

The week started with a bang, with the official signing of Mozambique's application for round 9 funding from the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. The meeting room of UNAIDS in the leafy Sommerschield Bairo of Maputo is …

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Mozambique prepares its Global Fund application

Posted by: Neil Squires, Posted on: 18 May 2009 - Categories: Africa, Health

The latest update from Mozambique is that we are in the midst of an intensive period of activity supporting the Government of Mozambique to develop its round 9 application to the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria (GFATM). I …

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Money for nothing, scam or April Fool?

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 8 April 2009 - Categories: Education, Nigeria

In time honoured fashion I managed to trick my kids to run out to see an imaginary friend on April Fools' morning - although I suspect when they get older I'll be on the receiving end. Skimming the Nigerian press, …

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