How do the real local champions tolerate us, international ‘experts’ who rotate in and out of their countries and keep showing up – different faces, same stupid questions – like a bad penny? What do we mean when we talk about supporting local actors? And are we really ready to relinquish control, face our shortcomings and humbly listen?
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
New statistics show that the rate of child death across sub-Saharan Africa is not just in decline—but that decline has massively accelerated, just in the last few years.
Recipe For Safer Drinking Water? Add Sun, Salt And Lime
Sun, salt and lime sounds like the beginnings of a cocktail recipe, but for some, it could mean cleaner, life-sustaining water.
“It’s a relatively simple add-on to a treatment that’s already widely accepted”
Less than one percent went to the Government of Haiti to rebuild public institutions. And Haitian-led NGOs have barely received any money at all.
Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone? | Vijaya Ramachandran | Global Development: Views from the Center (via affectedclapping)
Total Humanitarian Assistance from USAID, State, and DOD. USAID and State are not listed since their money was re-allocated to the implementing partners above.
Can an African 'green revolution' feed the world?
“If you only increase productivity by 50 percent in Africa, Africa will go from food deficit to food surplus. And that can be done with access to simple inputs that are available today.”
Beyond Condoms: A Broader Choice for an AIDS-Free Generation
Access to contraception has long been identified as one of four key components of successful programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, and yet it has been neglected because of insufficient resources and separate funding streams.
International Development Seminar video project end result!
it shows that IDEV is so complex and not at all linear… that’s why we love it!
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Investments in education create a multiplier effect that extends beyond the benefits of learning alone – with more education comes increased health, economic growth, civil societies and food security. (via USAID | Infographic: Learning Squared)
The White Savior Industrial Complex
And we also agree on something else: that there is an internal ethical urge that demands that each of us serve justice as much as he or she can. But beyond the immediate attention that he rightly pays hungry mouths, child soldiers, or raped civilians, there are more complex and more widespread problems. There are serious problems of governance, of infrastructure, of democracy, and of law and order. These problems are neither simple in themselves nor are they reducible to slogans. Such problems are both intricate and intensely local.
The White Savior Industrial Complex is a valve for releasing the unbearable pressures that build in a system built on pillage. We can participate in the economic destruction of Haiti over long years, but when the earthquake strikes it feels good to send $10 each to the rescue fund. I have no opposition, in principle, to such donations (I frequently make them myself), but we must do such things only with awareness of what else is involved. If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.
Access to Markets
Increasing women’s share of household income has broad benefits to improved rural livelihoods. Improving transportation and infrastructure constraints and encouraging rural women’s participation in farmer organisations and cooperatives can help both to achieve economies of scale in access to markets as well as reducing isolation and building confidence, leadership and security.SOURCE: FAO CFS
