I have recently come back from three months in Sierra Leone where I was working with DFID and the Ministry of Education to support children re-enrolling back into school safely after Ebola. Ebola had a devastating effect on the country, …
Time to draw breath after a week full of events aimed at sharing ideas and prompting discussions about what digital means for our work. This was the third time we have run such an event and the programme was designed …
Having spent most of the past year getting to grips with new results based instruments to support Tanzania's delivery of education, it was a refreshing change to get involved in a different sort of innovation with different actors that bring …
Nelson Mandela's legacy in Tanzania is rapidly expanding, as I learnt just days after returning from Washington DC last December, where the White House flag was at half mast as a mark of respect. Nearly a decade after Mandela met …
Thank you for all your comments on my last blog and your support for our work. In it I wrote about our innovative Education Fund for Sindh (EFS) programme. Since then EFS has supported 6,000 out of school children to …
“I’m not sure I’m going to uni,” Jordan Casey said recently. “But I’ve got five years to decide.” The Irish 13 year old was speaking at the Guardian Activate conference I attended – billed as exploring how digital innovation, technology and …
What do you think about when you think about research? Do you think of stereotypes – such as academics looking like Einstein in the picture below with the blackboard? Dusty theses sitting on library shelves? Or do you think about the …
A few days ago I was in a meeting with colleagues from a number of organisations and countries talking about how to best share knowledge about green growth policies and strategies. It sounds rather boring, but actually we came up with …
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