Nepal…

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Honouring Fridays: June 19th, 2009

The monsoon is a week late.  The temperature has soared into the high 30’s and can only be set to rest with the advance of the monsoon.  Apparently it is predictable – every year there is a date that all Nepali’s anticipate when the monsoon rains rush in and quench the thirst of farmers who [...]

Honouring Fridays: March 13th, 2009

Mid-march already!  So hard to believe it really.  At home, I could mark the months with work cycles, important dates, holidays, and often seasons; here is harder to mark the passage of time as readily.  The holidays are new and unfamiliar, the work cycle is totally new, and the seasons seem to wash slowly into [...]

Rethinking advocacy

One of the significant roles I will play here in Nepal is supporting a coalition of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and INGOs (international non-governmental organizations) in coordinating their advocacy work.  So, the result has been an endless slog through oodles and oodles of donor agency reports, position papers, data summaries and government documents on education in [...]