News item by Akvo: On 24 and 25 of April Akvo gave an Akvo Really Simple Reporting (RSR) workshop for the Dutch WASH Alliance (DWA) partners in Tamale, Ghana. From the WASH Alliance eight partners working on water, sanitation and hygiene projects around Tamale were present, we also hosted six participants from the Connect4Change consortium [...]
Blog item by Akvo’s Kathelyne van den Berg: On the 21 and 22 february I gave a Workshop for the Connect4Change (C4C) Consortium education sector partners in the Copperbelt, Kitwe, Zambia. The workshop was organised together with my Connect4Change colleagues Theresa Stanton (IICD) and Tjeerd de Boer (Edukans). The trip from Lusaka to the Copperbelt [...]
Blog by Kathelyne van den Berg, Akvo: The thing that really sticked from our Really Simple Video training during the C4C workshop was that a simple video is less than 3 minutes or as Mark Charmer calls it in his Spanish “Menos de Tres Menutos”. All the partners were joking about this but this also [...]
Blog by Mark Charmer, Akvo: I’m 12,000 feet up in the Andes this week in the dramatic Bolivian city of La Paz, with South American partners in the Connect 4 Change (C4C) consortium. Over the coming four years C4C is bringing online close to 50 million Euro of Dutch development aid projects, focused on health, [...]
Blog by Akvo’s Mark Charmer: At Akvo we’re not professional video people. But we think video is really important to our work and that of our partners. We use it to bring to life the people we meet and the interactions we have. We think it makes everything we do feel more real. We’ve been [...]
Blog by Gaël Hernández, Technical Advisor East Africa at IICD One of the purposes of a solution design workshop is to assist partners in the Connect4Change consortium in the formulation of their project proposals from a technical angle. In March, April and June, I travelled to Ethiopia, Zambia and Uganda to facilitate the workshops with [...]
ICT training helps Kenyan youth in slum areas to find (better) jobs Nairobits Trust, set up by Butterfly Works with support of ICCO and Edukans in Nairobi supports youth in gaining business and technical skills in web site development. The project has provided over 2,000 marginalised youth from slum areas with ICT and live skills. [...]
