Just back from Turkey where I facilitated a workshop with a Oxfam, HIVOS, and IWPR consortium project working with Women on the Frontlines. These are groups working in conflict regions just trying to make life better for women and people in general. Whether its working in refugee camps, trying to shine lights on gender violence, […]
Just back from Nigeria conducting an evaluation for International IDEA on their support to the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). I very much enjoyed meeting the Commission’s Acting Chair, Amina Zakari (pictured here) and the talented staff at the election commission. Together with the African Union and the Government of the Netherlands IDEA has […]
Next week, November 3rd, 2014, the European Parliament’s Development Committee will have an extraordinary meeting to discuss two crises and the European Union’s (EU) proposed approach to managing developmental issues post-2015. For Maltese organizations and developmental expertise, this represents an important opportunity to ensure that Malta’s Overseas Development Assistance priorities and the EU’s focus on […]