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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 […]
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)
Revisiting Scott’s (1985) Weapons of the Weak
On ‘weapons of the weak’: “Here I have in mind the ordinary weapons of relatively powerless groups: foot dragging, dissimulation, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance, slander, arson, sabotage and so forth. These Brechtian forms of class struggle have certain features in common. They require little or no coordination or planning; they often represent a form […]
Selected Jobs (20 Aug 2015)
Tons of consulting contracts and long-term posts (Global) Internships (Canada) Communications Program Manager (USA) Education Advisor (Canada) Gender and Development Specialist (Ethiopia) Education Program Manager (Syria) Research Consultant (Afghanistan) Conflict Analyst (Jordan)
NGO Lessons from Oshinsky’s (2005) Polio: An American Story
NGO lessons from Oshinsky’s (2005) Polio: An American Story. Not a summary or review, but some thought provoking quotes: Strategic planning and framing of the issue: “No disease drew as much attention, or struck the same terror, as polio. And for good reason. Polio hit without warning. There was no way of telling who would […]
Links I Liked (14 Aug 2015)
Tools / advice for your NGO / NGO work Situation Analysis of Children in Uganda Communicating Complex Ideas
Selected Jobs (12 Aug 2015)
Paid internships (Global) Research Intern, IFPRI (USA) Internships in East Africa Child and Youth Protection and Development Coordinator, IRC (CAR) Program Manager, War Child (Uganda) Structural Engineer (Haiti) Consultant: Developing Beneficiary Feedback and Response Systems (IRC)
Looking for a Job in International Development?
A few job boards you can follow (set up RSS or email feeds on topics/countries of interest): http://reliefweb.int/jobs http://www.unjobs.org/ www.developmentaid.org www.devex.com http://www.eldis.org/ http://www.devnetjobs.org/ Job boards are important. You should also be: Networking Linking with organizations you want to work for (yes, volunteer) Continue building your CV with on-going professional training Stand out form the crowd […]
Links I Liked
More Wealth, More Inequality (Guardian) On book reviewing (from John Toye): What did I learn from book reviewing? For a start, I learned how important it was to keep abreast of the latest literature. Instead of relying on inevitably dated student reading lists, book reviewing brought me the excitement of exploring the cutting edge of […]
“Give a Man a Fish” (2015) by James Ferguson
Notes from James Ferguson’s (2015) Give a Man a Fish (not a summary or review). A few thought provoking quotes. On neoliberal criticisms and a more productive way forward: “…I have been drawn into this project by an impatience with the increasingly empty (as it seems to me) politics of “opposing neoliberalism.” Critiques of neoliberalism […]
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate 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 fifteen 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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