I know this is all very immature, but I thought this was a funny idea (via): when you make a donation to Planned Parenthood in her name, they’ll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor. Here’s the link to the Planned Parenthood Read more…
We ran ten miles this morning at the top of Entoto with a great group of runners. The Entoto national park is a beautiful place to run, with views across Addis Ababa. As the elevation chart below shows (full size), it is at over 10,000 feet, so you feel the Read more…
Dan Kimmerling on Techcrunch says that Facebook is the new Outlook for the younger generation for young people, who really only care about functionality, Facebook succeeds because it is the killer web application for communications and personal information management. Facebook Mail is not without its problems, but the combination of Read more…
The PSD Blog, citing Chris Blattman, wonders if randomized evaluation is too expensive: In some circumstances, simple monitoring and evaluation without randomization might be enough, even if it leaves us with less certainty about the outcomes. Perhaps it’s time to develop more formal cost-benefit guidelines for randomized evaluations? Our problem Read more…
Yesterday was New Year’s Day here in Ethiopia – it was the first day of 2001 on the Ethiopian Calendar. Grethe and I celebrated by going for a run in the hills overlooking the city.
I’ve written about last week’s Accra meeting on the aidinfo blog and discussed it with Simon Maxwell in this week’s Development Drums.
The inauguaral edition of my new development news podcast, Development Drums, is now online. Simon Maxwell, Director of ODI, joined me for a discussion of this week’s Accra Agenda for Action, the UN MDG Gap Report, and the latest poverty statistics from the World Bank To listen to the podcast, Read more…
The Guardian reports that the UK is pushing for greater transparency of aid in an initiative to be launched tomorrow: The UK wants donor countries to provide full and detailed information of all the financial assistance provided to each country; details of individual projects and their aims; and reliable information Read more…
I’ve posted about the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness on our aidinfo blog.
About 12-13 million Ethiopians need food relief or emergency assistance as a result of the failure of the short rains in southern Ethiopia, according to AFP: The lack of rain in the main February to April wet season has left at least 75,000 Ethiopian children under age five at risk Read more…