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Lizard lab
Thirsty work for Ian and Rabi On the road the other day and decided to swing by and see how the rain harvesting scheme at Gidan Mutan Daya primary school, Katsina was getting on now, over 3 months into...
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Where are the numbers?
Just before Xmas, as reported on my 'back to basics' post, Kano State was just starting the data entry of the annual school census that the Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN)...
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The Memorandum of Understanding
Ministry of Health and partner break out session The build up to one of the big twice yearly policy discussions between the Ministry of Health and its partners was well underway last week. The policy...
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Grassroots development, gas – and a guru
Panelists, L to R: Anupan Khanna, Prof U Shankar, Prof MS Swaminathan, Shantanu Mitra, Prof Sudhir Chellarajan In Chennai recently to attend a conference organised by the Madras School of Economics and...
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A guest in Manila
Last week I went to Manila, where over 300 representatives of developing countries, civil society, indigenous peoples, local communities and the private sector came together for the Climate Investment...
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Unsettled weather
Dusty sunset behind Abuja's central mosque It’s been a turbulent week in Nigeria, both politically and meteorologically, which has contributed to the challenges of my work in quite different ways....
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Ants and frogs and climate change
After COP 15, energy levels were pretty low. My best quote was that is was like an elephant giving birth to an ant! When I shared this with Dr Trotz, the Scientific Adviser at the Caribbean Community...
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Steady as she goes
Minister Garrido and me at the presentation of the sector performance review In my last post, on the 10 March, I was getting ready for the CCS policy discussion, which was due to be held on the 11...
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DFID hands over to the Netherlands
Marco Gerritsen, looking happy taking on the focal partner role I mentioned in a previous blog that I would be handing over the focal partner role on the 11 March, well, a few days later than expected,...
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Coal City schooling
My last post focused on the vagaries of travels in Nigeria. I’m pleased to report that since then I did manage to make it all the way to Enugu and back safely, even if a little ‘shaken’ (‘but not...
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