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African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting Award

African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting Awards (hereafter ACCER Awards) is Africa’s premier environmental and climate change reporting program, run and founded by the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) in 2013. Over a period of 7 weeks, (8th March – 26th April 2016) journalists and other media practitioners from across Africa submit entries which […]

Tags: #African Reporting Award #Award #Climate change #Environmental Reporting #Resilience

Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) Online Course (free)

The Practice of PDIA: Building Capability by Delivering Results is a free 12-week experiential training program that will provide you with the necessary frameworks and tools that you need to do PDIA in your context. The training will be offered from April 3- June 26, 2016 and will include video lectures, required reading, assignments, reflection […]

Tags: #Capacity Building #Delivering Results #Harvard #Practice of PDIA #Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

AgreenSkills’ Post-doc Research Fellowships

AgreenSkills+ is an European Union co-funded fellowship programmes, accepting applications for postdoctoral fellowships from experienced young and independent postdoctoral researchers, in the fields of life, agricultural, nutrition, and environmental sciences. Proposals are accepted, without any topic guideline, for basic or applied sciences. Fellows are offered 12-36 month positions in a laboratory based within one of […]

Tags: #Agriculture #Environmental Science #Fellowship #Nutrition #Post-doc

New Publication [In Press] In the International Journal of Drug Policy

Cochrane, L. and O’Regan, D. (2016) Legal Harvest and Illegal Trade: Trends, Challenges and Options in Khat Production in Ethiopia. International Journal of Drug Policy. Abstract The production of khat in Ethiopia has boomed over the last two decades, making the country the world’s leading source. Khat is now one of Ethiopia’s largest crops by […]

Tags: #Ethiopia #Khat #Policy #Trafficking

Facilitating Systemic Change: PEPFAR and Healthcare in Ethiopia

Academics tend to focus on the negatives in international development, not giving as much attention and space to reflect on what has worked well. I previously wrote about a small-scale agricultural project. Here is a brief overview of a large-scale, long-term project that facilitated systemic change: The same year that I first arrived in Ethiopia, in […]

Tags: #Ethiopia #Healthcare #HIV/AIDS #PEPFAR #Systematic Change

Viewing Complexity Through Life Histories

Thinking about people and objects as components in interconnected, non-linear and dynamic systems, rather than as compartmentalized and independent actors, began to take shape during the early 1900s with work by the biologist Von Bertalanffy. Throughout the last century, the systems approach was applied in a wide range of areas of inquiry, and has been used […]

Tags: #complex adaptive system #Complexity #Dynamic systems #Life History #Ramalingam

Mapping coups d’etat in sub-Saharan Africa

Patrick McGowan analyzed planned, attempted, successful and failed coups d’etat in sub-Saharan African states from 1956-2001. Political instability during this period was much higher than other regions of the world, negatively affecting economic growth and human development. McGowan finds that the rate of success of attempted coups was higher than 40%, with an increase of attempts following a successful […]

Tags: #Coup d'etat #Instability #Post-colonialism #sub-Saharan Africa

Top Posts from 2015

Posts with the most page views in 2015: 1. International Development Essential Reading (Books) 2. Conducting Research in Ethiopia 3. Advice for Conducting Household Surveys 4. Want to Volunteer Overseas and Don’t Know Where to Start? 5. PhD Reality Check

Article Featured by Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis is running a series on the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs). One of my papers from 2012 is featured under Goal 6: Combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria & Other Diseases: http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/est/mdg/hiv-aids  

Tags: #HIV/AIDS #MDGs #Millennium Development Goals

Selected Jobs (5 Sept 2015)

Volunteer Post – Evaluation (Bolivia) Volunteer Post – Mapping (Burkina Faso) Volunteer Post – M&E (Ghana) Program Coordinator – Health (Afghanistan) External Evaluator (Lebanon) WASH Manager (Ethiopia)