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Author Archives: Ciarán
Saturday Closing
As the staff member rostered for this coming Saturday, I would like to wholeheartedly welcome the courageous and insightful decision to close the workshop on that date…
NEW HANS ROSLING POST!!!
Just put on TED this week. If you haven’t seen this guy trawl back through his videos. He’s unbelievable!
Sarah Carey article
Sarah chaired the conference and was great. I deeply enjoyed the word MoNGO!
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0716/1224274818297.html
Interesting Irish Times Article
I thought this was quite good.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0714/1224274658288.html
As someone who frequently gets frustrated with working in Africa a reminder like this is no bad thing
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Back to work
I’m just back from three brilliant weeks in Australia. Still, it’s really nice to be working somewhere you look forward to going back to. While the Hub isn’t exactly luxurious, it’s a great vibe and a fun place to work.
On a related note I cleaned my desk for the first time since I [...]
Aid Watchers
The headline of this blog post grabbed my attention for obvious reasons!
http://aidwatchers.com/2010/06/if-an-evaluation-is-released-on-the-internet-and-no-one-comments-does-it-make-a-sound/
Still following the blog quite closely and really enjoying it.
Posted in Africa, Blog, Monitoring and Evaluation Tagged Africa, Aid, bill easterly, Blog, Ciarán Casey, evaluation, monitoring 2 Comments
Charities under funding pressure
This is from an article in today’s Irish Times
‘Almost a fifth of charities in Ireland fear they will be forced to close their doors within the next year after cuts in funding, it emerged today.
Concerns were also raised that thousands of jobs would be lost and frontline services across health, education and social services decimated [...]
Posted in Africa, Blog, Fundraising, Monitoring and Evaluation Tagged Aid, benefit, Ciarán Casey, cuts, expenditure, funding, government, Irish Times, state, value for money Leave a comment
A swipe at the Development heads!
This was quite interesting, if not very funny. I actually like Easterly though I’ve only read his blog. That bit about Moyo’s book going for the sensationalist headline but not actually talking about NGOs or emergency relief is spot on.
http://www.spinearth.tv/report/dead-aid-by-dambisa-moyo-a-deplorable-imaginary-conversation-between-famous-economists
Camara on TV!
Nationwide on Monday night- the Camara bit is in two chunks, starting from 17mins 58secs
http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1073435
Fair play to Karolanne and Danny. It’s great to get some more footage from the schools
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Camara epic poem