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So why does development fail? Here’s why…

“Why does development fail?” To a familiar and fundamental question arrives insight from an unusual source with, potentially, far-reaching significance.…

Alan Gibson13/02/2014

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Taking the “P” out of M4P?

Development loves acronyms. Development loves alliteration. It loves to dumb down, distil and disseminate decidedly dodgy diatribes of development determinants.…

David Elliott31/01/2014

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Farmer groups: Why we love them, why we do them and why they fail

Someone once told me that I couldn’t be a real agriculturalist until I had at least one failed chicken project…

Tim Stewart07/01/2014

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Development’s New Sickness – ‘Cognitive Dissonance’

Ben Taylor Originally featured on businessfightspoverty.org Like British sportspeople and the overuse of acronyms, evidence-based policy and systemic change are…

Ben Taylor11/11/2013

Article Global MSD in New Sectors Water & Sanitation

The Sustainability Drought: Failures and Potential Solutions in Water and Sanitation

Ben Taylor Originally featured on businessfightspoverty.org People die without clean water. People get sick without effective sanitation - from which…

Ben Taylor23/10/2013

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So why does development fail? Here’s why…

Taking the “P” out of M4P?

Farmer groups: Why we love them, why we do them and why they fail

Development’s New Sickness – ‘Cognitive Dissonance’

The Sustainability Drought: Failures and Potential Solutions in Water and Sanitation

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