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Forecasting Development

Posted by: Hannah Ryder, Team Leader for Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, Posted on: 3 February 2014 - Categories: Other

In January, I always enjoy reading the Economist's World In Year X publication – which sets out their forecasts for big headlines under a number of categories. What I particularly like is their review of how correct their forecasts were …

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Exploring new horizons in Bamyan and Uruzgan

Posted by: Christa, Local Government Team Leader, DFID Afghanistan, Posted on: 21 March 2013 - Categories: Afghanistan, Governance

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I recently travelled to Bamyan and Uruzgan to see whether Strengthening Provincial Administration and Delivery (SPAD) – a UK/Denmark funded programme - can make a difference there. Bamyan is a province in …

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Kenya's elections and the hope for peace

Posted by: Alistair Fernie, Posted on: 28 February 2013 - Categories: Governance, Kenya

What comes to mind when you think of Kenya? Lions and elephants on the plains of the Maasai Mara, the world's best marathon runners, innovation in mobile phone technology? Or tribal hatred, political crisis, and running battles in desperate slums? …

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Touching people’s lives - with SPAD…

Posted by: Christa, Local Government Team Leader, DFID Afghanistan, Posted on: 11 February 2013 - Categories: Afghanistan, Infrastructure

Local governance in Afghanistan is full of acronyms – PDP, DCC, DDA, PGO to name just a few – and SPAD is the latest addition. Admittedly, UK civil servants when they hear "SPAD" will not think of a programme that …

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Mobile technology is helping Ghana decide its future

Posted by: Mac-Jordan Degadjor, Posted on: 30 October 2012 - Categories: Development Debates, Ghana, Technology

My name is Mac-Jordan Degadjor, a blogger from Ghana and a Technical Advisor on the Ghana Decides project. Ghana Decides is a non-partisan project, being funded by STAR Ghana, which is using social media tools (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc) …

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Apple strudel in Lashkar Gah

Posted by: Christa, Local Government Team Leader, DFID Afghanistan, Posted on: 23 July 2012 - Categories: Afghanistan, Infrastructure, Other

I recently travelled to Helmand province in the south of Afghanistan to see for myself the activities DFID and others carry out there. I was most interested in seeing improvements in governance and basic service delivery. It was an exciting trip …

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Dari, development and daily life - one month in Kabul

Posted by: Christa, Local Government Team Leader, DFID Afghanistan, Posted on: 6 July 2012 - Categories: Afghanistan

I've spent a month in Kabul already, which has passed in a flash! In this time, I have got to grips with my job, which is to help strengthen government systems - especially how the government in Kabul works with local structures …

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The times they are a-transitioning

Posted by: Cleo Blackman, Programme Manager, DFID DRC, Posted on: 25 June 2012 - Categories: Afghanistan, Infrastructure

...to his concerns about continuing efforts to get girls into school and putting pressure on Kabul to ensure central government funding trickles through to the places it is most needed....

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Going for gold in DRC

Posted by: Vicky Seymour, Posted on: 15 June 2012 - Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo, Economic Development, Infrastructure

Olympic fever is running high in the UK. London 2012 kicks off in late July, and the excitement is palpable, even from an Embassy a whole continent away from home. So it's no wonder that everything we do this year – …

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Welcome to the land of the brave

Posted by: Christa, Local Government Team Leader, DFID Afghanistan, Posted on: 8 May 2012 - Categories: Afghanistan

A large sign greets me with 'Welcome to the land of the brave' in the arrival hall in Kabul. I have just stepped off the plane, and am wondering what the year ahead will bring. This is my first time …

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