It’s international happiness day today, so what better way to ruin my Sunday morning than blogging about it? The World Happiness Report has a short update to mark the day….
How can we get better at promoting active citizenship? Lessons from ten case studies
Over the last few months I’ve been writing a series of ten case studies on Oxfam’s work in promoting active citizenship, and blogging the drafts for comments (thanks for those…
Does digitalised social protection worsen exclusion for women?
Particularly liked the series of rather splendid blogs for International Women’s Day, written by our amazing LSE students. Here’s my favourite, not least because of the lovely blogging style: Does…
Is it time for a rethink on the definition of aid?
…actually quite like blogging about meetings held under Chatham House rules, as they allow me to write about the discussion without worrying about who said what. And to take the…
Hello 2023. Here are the Most-Read FP2P Blogs from the Last Year.
…a bit beyond me, to be honest (and sounds pretty unpleasant), so in 2023 I’m just going to keep blogging and cross my fingers. Second, readers continue to be attracted…
2018 FP2P report back: stats; most-read posts and some big plans for 2019
…me – only three of the top 10 were new – who says blogging is ephemeral? Apart from a possible bias towards aid industry related topics, I can see very…
Responding to some of the criticisms of GROW
…this leave us? Can’t say the critics have said much to change my mind, but then, I dare say they’ll feel much the same about this post. That’s blogging for…
How many readers? Where from? What were their favourite posts? Stats for 2016 on FP2P
…surprise me – only two of the top 10 were new – who says blogging is ephemeral? Apart from a possible bias towards aid industry related topics, I can see…
5 Things that will Frustrate the Heck out of you when studying International Development
I ran a ‘blogging for beginners’ session for my LSE students earlier this week. Some of them clearly didn’t need it. Here’s MSc Development Management student Stella Yoh. International Development…
What do readers think of this blog? Results of audience survey
…need – my opposite number at Oxfam Intermon in Spain, Gonzalo Fanjul, is up and blogging (and is much cleverer and funnier than I could ever be) As for the…
What’s the problem with Projects?
While doing some blogging workshops, I got talking to various people in the Netherlands recently about aid moving ‘Beyond the Project’. Today’s guest post by Brady Mott explains the problem…
Can theories of change help researchers (or their funders) have more impact?
…learned more about advocacy from shadowing a UK Development Minister for a day than from dozens of workshops). Publish (and require recipients to publish) stats on blogging, citations in the…