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Kathmandu to Cancun: reality and rhetoric

Posted by: Simon Lucas, Posted on: 10 December 2010 - Categories: Climate Change, Nepal

My name is Simon Lucas and I've been working on energy, agriculture, roads and forestry projects in poor countries for the last 20 years. I'm also a keen white water kayaker, so when I heard of a job in Nepal …

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Awaiting a political resolution

Posted by: Sarah Sanyahumbi, Posted on: 12 May 2010 - Categories: Governance, Nepal

We’ve had a bit of a blogging hiatus given the pre-election period in the UK, but it’s nice to be back online! Things with Nepal’s peace process have gone up and down since I last blogged, but unfortunately I don’t …

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Sarah Ferguson and the life-saving Prime Minister!

Posted by: Sarah Sanyahumbi, Posted on: 14 September 2009 - Categories: Girls & Women, Health, Nepal

The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, was here last weekend to see the work that Nepal is doing on health care provision for mothers and babies. The Duchess, who – for those that don’t know, used to be married to …

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Waiting for the rains

Posted by: Sarah Sanyahumbi, Posted on: 26 June 2009 - Categories: Climate Change, Nepal

We Brits are famous for always talking about the weather, but people here in Nepal are doing that a lot too at the moment. But the different nationalities come at it from a rather different angle. In the UK we …

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Health in the Himalayas

Posted by: Sarah Sanyahumbi, Posted on: 22 May 2009 - Categories: Health, Nepal

This week I’ve been thinking about health a lot. I have two small children who are both adapting well to life in Nepal. But Nepal has different germs to Bangladesh, where we lived previously, and added to that, it is …

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Next steps for Nepal?

Posted by: Sarah Sanyahumbi, Posted on: 15 May 2009 - Categories: Nepal

I arrived in Nepal last week and the day I arrived the Prime Minister resigned! My week since has been trying to make sense of a multitude of contradictions and intensely complex politics. I’ve arrived to head up DFID’s development …

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