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...
tracnetonmanagement.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Management
Management is about decision making . and solving problems, especially difficult ones. Management information is key . it needs to be timely and relevant. Wednesday, April 16, 2008. I have defined management information in the following manner:. Management information is the least amount of information that reliably ensures that the best decisions are being made". Tr-Ac-Net is of the view that a universal system of management information that provides accountability to the public for use of resources and...
tracnetonmicrofinance.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on MicroFinance
A valuable tool for improving socio-economic conditions at the "bottom of the pyramid". Monday, March 31, 2008. What are the key metrics for microfinance. There has been a substantial growth in the use of microfinance as a modality for poverty alleviation. There has been a significant emergence of microfinance intermediaries . and the emergence of organizations helping to assess the credibility of these institutions. One of Tr-Ac-Net's goals is to have. Thursday, March 27, 2008. The growth of micro-credit.
tracnetonmigration.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Migration
Migration is driven by socio-economic factors more than anything else. Mass migration starts when conditions are bad. Sunday, April 13, 2008. Migration . as old as history. Migration is as old as history . but while travel is made much easier by virtue of technology . movement is more and more constrained by government. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Migration . as old as history. In New York in 2003. View my complete profile. Value Adding and Value Destruction.
tracnetonmobiledata.blogspot.com
Tr-Ac-Net on Mobile Data
Tr-Ac-Net on Mobile Data. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Trends in NGO Mobile Use. I just received this message . just after deciding that there needed to be a Tr-Ac-Net blog about mobile data. Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use. We are pleased to announce the release of a new report on Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use - http:/. The link again: http:/ mobileactive.org/wireless-technology-social-change-trends-ngo-mobile-use. 1 413 687 9877. This is g...
