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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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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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Building bridges: the lifelines of rural Nepal

Posted by: Sarah Sanyahumbi, Posted on: 22 July 2009 - Categories: Infrastructure, Nepal

I was born and brought up in Bristol, South West of the UK. In Bristol there is a famous bridge, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which I learned at school was one of the first suspension bridges of its type in …

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Of women and children

Posted by: Sarah Sanyahumbi, Posted on: 5 June 2009 - Categories: Economic Development, Girls & Women, Nepal

Last week I took my first trip outside Kathmandu and flew to Nepalgunj. Nepalgunj is in the Terai. This is a very different part of the country - and is a world away from the popular image people have of Nepal. …

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Of money, mice and men in Paoua

Posted by: Colum Wilson, Posted on: 26 February 2009 - Categories: Africa, Economic Development, Girls & Women

We are in the shanty side-streets of Paoua, where crumbling buildings patched with tin crowd in on dusty alleys, and where skinny cats patrol. I am sitting with a group of thirty women, and their attention is focussed on two metal …

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