A cloud of smoke billowed from downtown Port-au-Prince. News quickly spread that the dwellings of 1,500 families had been demolished by the Haitian government—some with only 24 hours’ notice—to make way for municipality buildings. Families once displaced by the 2012 earthquake now found themselves once again digging through rubble to salvage a few remaining family … [Read more...] about Haiti: getting resettlement right
Labour & Learning
Barbados Community College Graduation Speech
We were all born in the 20th century. The previous century of our foreparents was a very different place. At the dawn of last century, you travelled on foot, animals, boats or trains. You wrote letters to distant loved ones and went to a library to learn new things. … [Read more...] about Barbados Community College Graduation Speech
Building Leadership for Successful Project Execution
The Inter-American Development Bank’s Country Office in Trinidad and Tobago has now completed a series of three sessions that provided opportunities to key staff of executing units (on average 80 persons per session) with responsibility for IDB-financed projects to share experiences and knowledge with each other, other public sector stakeholders and with the IDB’s … [Read more...] about Building Leadership for Successful Project Execution
Can executing agency networks contribute to better project implementation?
A new perspective on critical success factors for Project Management What would really lead to success in project implementation? Put in terms of the borrowers’ perspectives, what would create a sustainable way of ensuring success of public sector projects that will assure less drain on the fiscal budget? Finding new ways for enhancing project implementation in the field so … [Read more...] about Can executing agency networks contribute to better project implementation?
Barbados ConSOC Making Strides in Project Development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohd90c9Czp8&feature=youtu.be Chairman of ConSOC, Lynette Holder could not contain her pleasure at the hosting of the first ever Barbados’ ConSOC event for the wider civil society groups on the island held at the Barbados Country Office. Under her chairmanship the committee decided to have a number of capacity building activities of which … [Read more...] about Barbados ConSOC Making Strides in Project Development