Apologies for the quality of this picture but there was a lot going on (and it was taken on my iPhone). This is the head of one of the queues at the Airtel shop in The Arcades, Lusaka this afternoon (8/10/11). The guy in the red shirt is the Airtel person and he is multi-tasking. […]
A little reminder – why we are doing this
12 May 2011 by
After a couple of days with the lovely Ian and Judy Goldman in Pretoria: early morning walks (Simon and Ian); intellectual discussions (Ian, Judy and Jane); discussions on World Music (Simon and Ian); exasperation with technology, especially Word (jane and Judy); etc etc, we have just arrived in Lusaka to a very warm welcome from […]
Project Logic Version 6
24 March 2011 by
Click on the above image to see the document full-size on Flickr This is a post for the development specialists amongst you and to reassure everyone else that we are making progress and doing a really thorough job on the design of the pilot. This is the pilot on a single sheet. There is a […]
Project logic – slow but steady progress
9 March 2011 by
There has not been a lot we can announce on the progress towards the pilot over the last few weeks but we’ve been busy carefully discussing with partners in Zambia the roles they would undertake in a pilot of ColaLife and we expect to be able to announce the implementation partnership shortly. In addition to […]
Where we went in Zambia – fun with a GPS
19 February 2011 by
DDSP, Mpika, courtesy of Google Earth. Our old house is in the top left and marked with a yellow map pin. Click to see the image full size on Flickr or download the KLM file to see where we went using Google Earth I carried a SPOT Messenger while in Zambia on our last trip […]
Results framework and next steps
3 February 2011 by
The foundation for a pilot in Zambia Above is the Results Framework which we developed with the help of UNICEF which I reported on earlier. We will use this the develop a Logical Framework for the pilot over the next couple of days and feed it back to potential partners for comments. The next steps towards […]
Zambia Diary | Day 14 | Meeting Susan
1 February 2011 by
Today (Sunday, 30/1/11) is our last full day in Zambia this trip and we’ve been invited to lunch! We need to return the vehicle we used for the Mpika trip to its rightful owner so I nipped out and got it cleaned although you wouldn’t have known it half an hour later . . . it’s […]
Zambia Diary | Day 13 | Return to Lusaka from Mpika
1 February 2011 by
Not much to report from today (Saturday, 29/2/11) as the day was spent returning to Lusaka from Mpika. This return journey really brought home how far Mpika is from Lusaka (and how big Zambia is). We started off at 9.10am and arrived in Lusaka at 5:50pm. We stopped in Serenje for fuel and just south […]
Zambia Diary | Day 12 (Part 2), Visit 2 | Friday Field Trip
30 January 2011 by
The last kilometre to Mpepo Rural Health Centre It takes about an hour and a half to reach Mpepo from Mpika. The Health Centre lies barely a kilometre from the tarmac road. Again we were astonished to see satellite dishes on one or two of the village houses (see above video). In Zambia, Health Centres, […]
Zambia Diary | Day 12, Visit 2 | You couldn’t make it up . . .
30 January 2011 by
Our old house in Mpika If anyone out there doesn’t believe that truth is stranger than fiction – read on . . . Safely arrived in Mpika, we had time, before darkness fell, to look around the town and our old ‘compound’, still known locally as the DDSP. We quickly found ‘our’ old house, tucked […]
