tracnetoncia.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Community Impact Accountancy
Tr-Ac-Net on Community Impact Accountancy. Community Impact Accountancy (CIA)relates resource use to community progress. CIA has the rigor of GAAP accounting, but for all of society, not just the business entity. Thursday, February 4, 2010. Change of name . 2. Community Impact Accountancy (CIA) started life as Social Benefit Accountancy (SBA) but the name was changed when it became apparent that the strength of the system was a methodology that was community centric. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Price and ...
tracnetonconflict.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Conflict
Conflict does all sorts of damage. Though sometimes necessary . most times there are better alternatives. Conflict causes immediate value destruction and constrains the future for years . generations. Thursday, May 1, 2008. Somalia . giving the Somali's back their country. The violence in Somalia seems to go on and on and on. Why is this? This is what has been successful in Somaliland. This is what Michael Van Notten showed me when I was working in the area some years ago. Monday, April 7, 2008. Dialog i...
tracnetoncorruption.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Corruption
Corruption is a drag on productivity . but powerful individuals and groups get huge benefit from corruption. Society as a whole pays a very high price for corruption and stopping it is difficult. Sunday, April 13, 2008. Grand Corruption in Iraq. There has been grand corruption in Iraq, it appears, since the very early days of the American occupation. More than five years into the occupation, and the total funds that have been mis-used seems to be more than anything ever experienced in history. The corrup...
tracnetoncsr.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Corporate Social Responsibility
Helping to put CSR into the corporate mainstream. Saturday, February 13, 2010. Corporations should take CSR seriously. Over the last three years there have been enormous shifts in the global economic landscape. These shifts have been underway for a long time, but they have become more obvious, and they have accelerated in an exponential manner. Thursday, March 27, 2008. CSR vitally important for society . but not for traditional corporate stakeholders. A good business certainly should deliver benefit to ...
tracnetondevelopmentassistance.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Development Assistance
Tr-Ac-Net on Development Assistance. Big question about performance and cost effectiveness of development assistance. What might be better ways to use the resources? Wednesday, March 5, 2008. Concentration of Buying Power. Olivia McDonald is the author of "Buying power: aid, governance and procurement", a report prepared for Christian Aid. The Forum on the Future describes the report in the following way:. Hopefully this is going to change. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Concentration of Buying Power.
tracnetondrugsupply.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Drug Supply
Tr-Ac-Net on Drug Supply. Global health is being compromised by bad drugs. Thursday, May 8, 2008. An AFM study about low quality drugs in Africa. The following message was recently circulated by Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM). It describes a study about the quality of drugs being distributed in various places in Africa. This is what AFM circulated. Reuters India has provided a nice summary:. Http:/ in.reuters.com/article/health/idINN0651796020080507. This, of coure, is the raison d'etre for the Transparen...
tracnetoneducation.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Education
Education is the foundation for the future. Friday, February 29, 2008. How important is education? How to make it the best it can be? Most people seem to understand that education is important . but how to make it the best it can be is a much more difficult challenge. It was also widely recognised that the lack of education was a constraint on development in much of the world some fifty years ago . and continues to be a constraint for most of the world's impoverished. The educational techniques that are ...
tracnetongovernance.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Governance
Thursday, May 1, 2008. Bad Governance . Terrible Impact on Africa. The issue of governance . the issue of poverty . and the perception of Africa as an economic success or failure all need to be seen in perspective. Recently the Carnegie Council newsletter alerted me to an article written by Ian Bremmer that included the following paragraph. Whither Africa's "Frontier Markets"? April 14, 2008. Funds have been flowing for years . but what has been accomplished with these fund flows? Bad governance has had ...
tracnetonhealth.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Health
Health science is amazing . but the economics are terrible. Making changes that are win-win-win is a challenge, but possible. Friday, April 25, 2008. An opinion about generic drugs. Thompson Ayodele, President of the Initiative for Public Policy Analysis, in Lagos, Nigeria sent me the following:. WHO Conference Attendees Wrongheaded In Their Support for Pharmaceutical Patent Busting. For Developing Countries without Healthcare Infrastructure, Free Drugs Are Largely Useless. At best, compulsory licenses a...
tracnetonhealthinfrastructure.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Health Infrastructure
Tr-Ac-Net on Health Infrastructure. Health infrastructure is critical, but badly funded and managed. Tuesday, April 29, 2008. CareShop Ghana: Improving Access to Essential Drugs through Conversion Franchising. Julia Tran posted this information in a World Resources Institute email that is sent to me periodically by the NextBillion movement. It describes a very useful initiative to improve the supply of drugs to patients in Ghana building on a network of retailers that already exists:. This sounds pretty ...
tracnetonmalaria.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Malaria
An IMM (integrated malaria management) approach with Tr-Ac-Net performance metrics is a. Viable strategy for success in reducing the socio-economic burden of malaria in Africa. Thursday, May 1, 2008. MERG and the lack of accountancy expertise. A few months ago I wrote the following. It was addressed to Dr. Kochi at WHO and was copied to a number of people who have been associated with the WHO MERG initiative (MERG stands for Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group) over the past several years. While th...
