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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 […]
Selected Jobs (5 August 2015)
Research and Development Officer, IRC (New York) Country Director, War Child (DR Congo) Project Coordinator, Gender (Canada) Senior Research Assistant, IFPRI (USA) Lots of jobs at Chemonics (USA) Lots of consulting contracts, UNICEF Procurement Manager, IRC (Kenya) Research Analyst (Arabic and English fluency)
Want to volunteer overseas and don’t know where to start?
I have received a number of requests for volunteer placements and/or for support locating volunteer placements. The conversations more of less start off in the same way, summarized here for those in a similar position: Getting started. Make sure you check out organizations that specifically place volunteers/interns to see if you might meet their criteria, […]
Links I Liked
Can You Win a War on Facebook? (Burundi) Jimmy Carter on US Democracy Discussion on food security, the article is interesting, I recommend browsing the comments Literature Scan of Resilience (ODI)
Selected Jobs (29 July 2015)
Policy Advisor, Oxfam (Yemen) Program Manager, Youth Livelihoods (Canada) Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Gates Foundation (USA) Project Support Interns (x2, Canada) Donor Coordinator, Fred Hollows (East Africa) M&E Expert (Ethiopia) Advocacy, Media and Communications (Yemen)
International Development – Essential Reading (Books)
Not all these books are freshly pressed. If you are interested in international development, the history of ideas and practices is just as important as the new ones. This list reflects my work and interests as much as it is an exhaustive list. In chronological order: Peasants into Frenchmen – Weber (1976) Weapons of the […]
Selected Jobs (25 July 2015)
Livelihood Manager, Sierra Leone Human Rights Internship, New York M&E Learning Coordinator, Lebanon Deputy Program Director, Tanzania Director of International Programs, WaterAid Evaluation Consultant, Afghanistan
Conducting Research in Ethiopia? Read this.
Received ethics approval from your home institution or organization to conduct your research overseas? Great. However, that is insufficient. Authorities in the country where you plan to conduct research have a legal and ethical right to approve the research you plan to conduct in their country. In addition to abiding by legal requirements, researchers ought to […]
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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