Cindy
Did you know that one of the top 10 countries in the world for violent crime is Guatemala? I didn’t until recently. In fact, 1 in 5 households is victimized by violent crime every 12 months and only 2% of homicides result in conviction. (Source: Guatemala Poverty Assessment, March 18, 2009. World Bank)
It is [...]
Last week I posted on the positive effects of private/public partnerships in transforming aid and it’s effectiveness citing an example in Haiti where USAID, Unibank and the Pan American Development Foundation teamed up to build schools. That post went live Tuesday morning, later that day at 4:53 pm Haiti experienced a 7.0 earthquake completely devastating [...]
I had some time over the holidays to catch up on some reading and one of my absolute favourites is the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
In their fall issue, Andrew Natsios wrote an article entitled Public/Private Alliances Transform Aid. If you are a subscriber you can get it online.
I am a big fan of USAID and [...]
