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Coal City schooling
Posted 6 April 2010 by Ian Attfield
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 stirred’ as James Bond would say)!
We travelled by road south from Abuja, along half built highways [...]
DFID hands over to the Netherlands
Posted 1 April 2010
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, on the 25 March the hand-over took place. At the end of the big twice yearly Ministry of Health meeting (the CCS) with development partners, which was postponed [...]
Ants and frogs and climate change
Posted 30 March 2010 by Simone Banister
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 Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), back in January, when we were discussing the region's reaction to Copenhagen, he really [...]
A guest in Manila
Posted 22 March 2010
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 Funds (CIF)Â Partnership Forum, a global conversation on the CIF, which I have talked about before here at DFID Bloggers. I was asked to write a guest [...]
