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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

Article Global Research Guidance

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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Zip goes a million

In 1902, an American novelist named George Barr McCutcheon, penned the amusing work of fiction, “Brewster’s Millions”. At the turn…

Dan Nippard13/09/2013

Development Effectiveness Global Paper

DSA Conference Paper: Who Wants to Give Forever? Giving Meaning to Sustainability in Development

The Springfield Centre, August 2013 This conference paper, delivered at the DSA conference in November 2013, re-examines the use of…

Springfield Centre20/08/2013

Article Development Effectiveness Global

Evidence-based policy and systemic change: conflicting trends?

The Springfield Centre, July 2013 Two clear trends have emerged in development in recent years; evidence-based policy and systemic approaches.…

Springfield Centre20/07/2013

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The ‘hidden’ costs of increasing UK aid

UK aid budgets are increasing. At 0.56% of the UK’s Gross National Income (GNI), the UK spent around GBP 8.5bn…

David Elliott25/04/2013

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Development Agencies and Mass Media: Part of the solution or part of the problem?

Development agencies have repeatedly referenced mass media in developing countries as a “driver of change”. They do so because of…

Gavin Anderson23/04/2013

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Systemic is not a nice to have

In the good old days, before we in the industry were inconvenienced by the knowledge of our impending doom, we…

Tim Stewart07/03/2013

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Beyond Being in Fashion

By Kevin Seely If you’re reading this, you’re probably in fashion. From Forbes to The Guardian to Engineers Without Borders,…

Kevin Seely11/02/2013

Matters for Debate

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

Zip goes a million

DSA Conference Paper: Who Wants to Give Forever? Giving Meaning to Sustainability in Development

Evidence-based policy and systemic change: conflicting trends?

The ‘hidden’ costs of increasing UK aid

Development Agencies and Mass Media: Part of the solution or part of the problem?

Systemic is not a nice to have

Beyond Being in Fashion

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