Tag Archives: Aid

Presidential candidiate Sean Gallagher visits Camara Education

Presidential hopeful Sean Gallagher today spoke of the vital work of Irish Aid and promised, if elected to champion its cause. His words of support came during a visit to Camara Education, an Irish charity which uses technology to improve education in disadvantaged communities in Africa, Jamaica and Ireland. Mr. Gallagher commented [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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Aid Effectiveness

Again this is part of my revised efforts to blog, which to be honest I’m really beginning to enjoy. Last week I was at a sector-wide meeting on Aid Effectiveness. In NGO terms this means sitting round in a room for two hours and trying to out-nerd each other. What I found [...]
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