We are sending this short message to all our clients and partners, to set out what we are doing to to make sure we can continue to deliver for the poorest in the world of COVID19 safely, and with minimum disruption to service
highlight some things that may be especially relevant to this context from things we work on — read full post
LONDON — Lutheran World Relief and IMA World Health have acquired Charlie Goldsmith Associates (CGA), a U.K.-based company that develops and applies context-suitable technology to meet the needs of the world’s poorest communities. — read full post
Charlie Goldsmith Associates is a UK-registered international development Consultancy working to support the poorest in fragile, conflict-affected, low-income and/or remote places, to get sustainable access to cash, services and control over their own future. We have a passion for bringing new talent into international development and are now looking to recruit a new round of four or five Fellows to join our teams in places like South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Malawi. — read full post
There’s a lot of talk in the aid sector at the moment about whether data about poor people is being handled in the way it should be. Some of that is to do with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, some of it is more basic, about IT security. — read full post
Structuring to deliver for the poor, for the medium to long term: some important news from us. — read full post
How a UK SME, delivering in South Sudan and beyond for UK Aid and others, is drawing from right across a divided United Kingdom, to work alongside the world’s most vulnerable, and help them go to school and get health care — read full post
Update from the horse’s mouth: DFID Minister backs cash programming
James Wharton MP, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development (“DFID’ Africa Minister”) spoke to the packed house at All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Sudans session on girls’ education in South Sudan, last Wednesday (29.iii.17), a couple of hours after I wrote the blog below.
Talking about the UK Aid Girls’ Education South Sudan project, and specifically about what he had seen when he visited a school in Juba a few weeks ago, that had received school operational grants, and where girls had received cash transfers, he said that:
- he wanted to highlight the “obvious but important narrative... direct support, relatively small sums of money, making a significant difference”
- that he could see the impact: “the girls I met in a school [in Juba] were as articulate, informed, and ambitious as those I meet in schools in my constituency.”
- That the simplicity of cash programming was an asset: “I wish I could take more of my constituents and more of those who take interest in aid...[whether with a positive or negative view] to see this programme: it is the sort of programme I can talk about and people get it. — read full post
From Sunderland Black Cats to Agile African Leopards: how a UK SME is getting the North to the South, getting young talent into international development work in fragile states – and developing fine choral music in South Sudan — read full post
For schools in parts of South Sudan the repercussions of the recent conflict are continuing to reverberate, making the prospect of a stable education even more remote for thousands of children. In Mayendit, a town in the north of the country which was devastated by violence in May 2015, schools are struggling to survive: many teachers have not received a salary for over a year, precipitating a severe shortage; several school buildings have been ransacked and destroyed, leaving children to learn in ‘classrooms’ which are exposed to the elements; and the collapsing economy means that basic school supplies are almost impossible to come by. When one of our team visited Bhor Primary School in April this year, she witnessed first-hand the privations many schools are having to contend with, and the reserves of resilience on which they need to draw simply to stay afloat. — read full post
Resources, responsibility and accountability should be decentralised to the lowest effective level. — read full post
Some new plans (and opportunities) for talent development at Charlie Goldsmith Associates. — read full post