[The following article was written by Rohit Ramchandani & Jane Berry and was published this week in UNICEF's internal M&E Newsletter EvalNews. It looks at the issues we have faced designing the evaluation framework for the ColaLife Trial in Zambia (COTZ)] COTZ is funded by DfID, J&J Corporate Citizenship Trust, COMESA and Honda with in-kind [...]
From AidPod to Anti-Diarrhoea Kit (ADK)
6 May 2012 by 11 Comments
Apologies for all the posts recently about packaging. It is a major focus at the moment but it’ll soon pass! I thought it would be useful to describe how the packaging and the components have now come together to form the anti-diarrhoea kit (ADK). Until the start of the set-up period of the trial we [...]
International Development Committee visits the COTZ office
15 March 2012 by Leave a Comment
Members of the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee after a briefing with COTZ Partners Early this morning (15/3/12) we had the privilege of hosting a visit from members of the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee. We’d rearranged the office last night to accommodate quite a crowd: the VIP visitors, our project manager, Silke Seco at DfiD Zambia, [...]
The ORS Question answered . . . by you
21 February 2012 by Leave a Comment
ORS sachets bought in Zambia – note that they all make up 1 litre I never tire of telling people that Open Innovation is an amazing phenomenon. Happily, it disproves the old adage: Ask a silly question… Because, in fact, you don’t get silly answers. Nearly a dozen people, including several international experts in Oral [...]
Request for Expressions of Interest | ColaLife Trial Monitoring & Evaluation
19 January 2012 by Leave a Comment
UNICEF, one of our local partners in the ColaLife trial, or the ColaLife Operational Trial Zambia (COTZ) as it is formally known, have issued a request for Expressions of Interest to carry out the evaluation of the COTZ project. Further details including links toi the full details of the request can be found here: http://colalife.org/eoi Please pass this [...]
UNICEF issues request for Expressions of Interest
17 January 2012 by 1 Comment
UNICEF, one of our local partners in the ColaLife trial, or the ColaLife Operational Trial Zambia (COTZ) as it is formally known, have today issued a request for Expressions of Interest to carry out the evaluation of the COTZ project. Further details including links toi the full details of the request can be found here: http://colalife.org/eoi Please [...]
Chongwe, Luangwa, Nyimba, Petauke and Katete
13 January 2012 by 3 Comments
Note to self . . . never leave Lusaka with anything less than a full tank of fuel. I’m always up for a bit of excitement, but our trip to Eastern Province this week proved a little more exciting than is comfortable – on various fronts. If you’d like to share some of the sights, [...]
Top 10 achievements in 2011
22 December 2011 by 2 Comments
>> 2009′s top 10 >> 2010′s top 10 1. Co-design of the ColaLife Trial We first visited Zambia in October 2010 to gauge interest in a trial there of the ColaLife idea. We got an overwhelmingly positive response and so started working with key local partners on a plan. We visited again in January and [...]
Rohit, ICT4RD and UNICEF
3 November 2011 by 4 Comments
Rohit Ramchandani at UNICEF HQ, Lusaka I last blogged just before we left the airport to meet Rohit for the first time and you will all be anxious to know if he arrived safely. Well he did. Here he is in full flow this afternoon (3/11/11) at the UNICEF headquarters in Lusaka. This was our [...]
The pre-trial bureaucratic phase
28 October 2011 by 1 Comment
Apologies for the lack of blog posts lately. There is a lot happening but, if I’m frank, a lot of it is not very exciting. We are in a necessary, but rather dull bureaucratic phase as we try to get the last bits and pieces in place to start the trial. We have confirmation [...]
