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The Will to Improve (2007) Li
For anyone interested in international development, this is essential reading. The opening chapters of the book are academic, and I suspect this has contributed to it mostly being engaged with by academics. However, Li’s book is highly recommended for practitioners, even if that means skimming some parts. What follows is not a summary of The […]
Tags: #Complexity #Ethnography #Practice of Development #Rendering Technical #The Will to Improve
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)
New Publication in Development in Practice
Taddesse, D., Jamieson, D. and Cochrane, L. (2015) Strengthening Public Health Supply Chains in Ethiopia: PEPFAR Supported Expansion of Access and Availability. Development in Practice 25(7): 1043-1056. Abstract: When the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)-supported Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) programme began working in Ethiopia in 2006, the estimated population of people living […]
Development as Freedom (1999) Sen
Many of Sen’s contributions have become common knowledge and do not appear to be as groundbreaking as they once were. Nonetheless, what follows is a selection of thought provoking quotes from Development as Freedom: On freedom(s): “These include (1) political freedoms, (2) economic freedoms, (3) social opportunities, (4) transparency guarantees and (5) protective security. Each of […]
Advice for Conducting Household Surveys
Planning to use household surveys as a data collection tool? The following suggestions relate to the processes of conducting household surveys, not the analysis of the data. I believe the process of surveying is not critically reflected upon as much as it should. Before developing your survey, conduct a series of interviews and focus group […]
Tags: #Data Verification #Household Surveys #Quality Control #Surveying #Surveying process
Selected Jobs (28 August 2015)
Internship (solar energy, Nepal) Volunteer (Kenya) Communications Advisor (Canada) Country Director (Yemen) Multiple technical posts (Jordan) Project Manager (Tanzania) Technical Writer, Governance (Consultant)
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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