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Waiting for Pennies from Heaven
Big money is on the table. $2.5 billion here. $40 billion there. This week it’s SoCap. Last week it was the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. And how can we forget the hulabaloo of the Millenium...
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Another Must Listen
On the treadmill this morning (a time I usually reserve for non-development thinking), a story from Malawi popped up via This American Life on my ipod. They continue covering stories on aid issues in...
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New Mission in Life
My parents are moving to Geneva…Nebraska that is. No where near the Alps. As we sorted through the stuff of our 30-year family home recently, I came across this article that was written about me in...
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Waiting for Pennies from Heaven
In honor of this week’s Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting, I’m reposting this from early October last year. The issues remain the same; the fundraising resources for local organizations still...
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Real Impact with Saeed Wame
Saeed Wame, founder and director of Namwera AIDS Coordinating Committee (NACC) of Malawi. Photo by Joop Rubens. I always walk away from a conversation with Saeed Wame, founder and director of Namwera...
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Bottlenecks and Dripfeeds: How much has changed?
At the upcoming XIX International AIDS Conference here in Washington D.C., I’ll be joining REPSSI (the Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative) as they celebrate their decade-long work to lessen the...
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The Real Experts
This post on behalf of REPSSI originally appeared on A View from the Cave. The first and most challenging exercise of the day when I took a seminar from The OpEd Project required me to fill in the...
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“Emotional and social well-being is not an afterthought”
This week I attended the XIX International AIDS Conference on behalf of REPSSI (The Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative.) Based in Johannesburg, REPSSI trains “front-line” service providers on...
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Game on: It’s time to stop looking at development issues as a matter of...
A guest post by Clement N. Dlamini The short game: HIV and food security Community development in Sub-Sahara Africa has been clouded by the emergency response mentality, which was exhibited in the knee...
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It’s about more than school fees
Saeed Wame, founder and director of Namwera AIDS Coordinating Committee (NACC) of Malawi. Photo by Joop Rubens. www.jooprubens.com I always walk away from a conversation with Saeed Wame with a brand...
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