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6 Great Development Blogs

January 18, 2010

No longer living in Ethiopia or Senegal, I’m not as tuned into the workings of on-the-ground development. Thankfully we have some good folks who keep us in the loop and help us learn more. Here are my favorites.
Blood and Milk. Alanna Shaikh writes all over the place, but her own Blood and Milk blog is [...]

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Phone Power

January 3, 2010

A powerful, reoccuring theme for me recently recently has been the growing importance of mobile technology. This is as profound a shift in many parts of the developing world as it is in the richer nations. Mobile adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa is ocurring at staggering rates. The International Telecommunications Union puts out a report each [...]

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Cashewman in 2009

January 1, 2010

2009 was a big year for Cashewman. It was the first year I took it seriously, with more focus, new design and regular posting. I’m still finding it difficult to focus on a few distinct subjects, but some, such as development, design, branding and marketing, Canada’s future and photography are emerging. This will continue in [...]

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Shot of the Day: Making Development Work

July 4, 2009

When it comes to the world of development, this is kinda how I see Practica.
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Shot of the Day: Expression in Dust

June 5, 2009

Some human tendencies are universal. Like writing in the dust on the back of a car.
Not our Land Cruiser, by the way. Practica’s still takin’ the bus over here. But in case we ever do roll in Cruisers, Alanna has let me know how to do it without looking like a tool.
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Self Help. My Catchphrase of the Day

May 21, 2009

For most of my brief time in development, I’ve worked within a certain type of philosophy: that players in market systems, with a few additional inputs such as training and support, can provide services that help people work from poverty. It’s not the same as the traditional development model that relies on externally-funded programs to [...]

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Visually Mapping the Development Sector

December 12, 2008

Last year my friend Colleen was doing a very interesting thesis on the irrigation sector in Nepal. Basically, she looked at three organizations, a for-profit consultancy, an international NGO and a Nepalese NGO, and assessed their interventions against a list of sustainability criteria. The results were revealing, as she found that each excelled in their [...]

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