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Freshers week
Throughout the six years I have worked in DFID I have always wanted to work in one of our offices based in a developing country. Living overseas, close to the ‘front line’ of delivering aid has to be...
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An education
Recently, I sat down to dinner with Hilary Armstrong MP, who was in Tanzania to undertake some voluntary work in a leading Tanzanian non-governmental organisation working in education. She was in the...
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A formal approach to poverty?
With colleagues Oliver Knight and Simon Gill at rubbish tip In Tanzania, as in many African countries, there is evidence of the informal economy wherever you look. As you walk through the streets of...
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Cycling proficiency
Me cycling to work, and that's the Indian Ocean in the background One of the things I miss about living in London is cycling to work. So once I realised that it would only take around 20 minutes to...
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Development partnerships
I have just got in after a training course into the weird and wonderful ways and workings of the ‘Development Partnership Group' (DPG). The purpose of the DPG, and its many underlying sector and...
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Practising what we preach
I promised to talk more about the programme of support to statistics that I am working on at the moment. Data collection in action! At the moment I am working with the Government, the World Bank and...
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Happy 2008 Africa Statistics Day!
Have you sent anyone a Happy African Statistics Day card yet? No thought not…but the 18th of November has been celebrated as "African Statistics Day" across the continent since the nineties. Its...
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Here comes the rain….
The 'short rains' have started and are here in force. As my first time living somewhere tropical, they are fascinating to me. Not the grey drizzle you get in the UK, but 'proper rain',...
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Testing times
One of the events associated with World AIDS Day each year is the launch of the UNAIDS report on monitoring the global epidemic. In this report UNAIDS use all the available data to summarise trends in...
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Comic Relief Kilimanjaro climb
The Comic Relief celebrities get ready to climb Kilimanjaro - (back row, left to right) Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating, Fearne Cotton, Chris Moyles, Cheryl Cole, Kimberley Walsh (front row, left to right)...
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