Komaza_News
swahili - Encourage Development; Promote Development
quinta-feira, abril 26, 2012
Hoje não é o Dia Mundial da Malária…
segunda-feira, março 05, 2012
failure to approach or failure of projects?
sábado, fevereiro 25, 2012
UNESCO e África após a entrada da Palestina
Banksi - Campanha de Solidariedade com a Palestina
segunda-feira, setembro 20, 2010
The most uncommon applications that you can give to paper and recycled cardboard tubes.
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sexta-feira, setembro 17, 2010
Per Diems: To pay or not to pay? That is the question.
My experience in Mozambique in this issue is very rich!! The Mozambican government decided to increase the per diem amount for the civil servants – I think it was in 2007. Today, a civil servant received, for a working day out of their office, half of his salary. This makes any sense?!
I think we should balance things. The civil servants, local communities, etc, should receive for the additional cost of leaving their houses (accommodation, food and transport). What I can’t understand is that people refuse to participate in trainings just because you can’t pay extra expenditures.
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"This paper is intended to spark debate on the use of per diems,  particularly as compensation for community members to participate in  development initiatives, but also more broadly as compensation for  development organization employees. Like all controversial topics, there  are many points of view. We encourage your participation in this  debate.
           
            In 2008, I was working for an international non-governmental  organization (INGO) in Ethiopia. I remember going to the field to carry  out an evaluation exercise with a local NGO and a few community groups  that were testing an Asset-based Community Development approach. In  principle, our stance was that if initiatives were truly citizen-led and  community-driven, then people should not expect to be paid per diems  for volunteering to participate in a task they had initially defined and  designed themselves, and therefore presumably considered important. In  the case of this evaluation exercise, the idea was that it was  participatory and the results would assist in the group’s  decision-making about how to move forward."
READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE by Brianne Peters
sábado, julho 17, 2010
CYBER-TERRORISMO
 THROUGHOUT history new technologies have revolutionised warfare,  sometimes abruptly, sometimes only gradually: think of the chariot,  gunpowder, aircraft, radar and nuclear fission. So it has been with  information technology. Computers and the internet have transformed  economies and given Western armies great advantages, such as the ability  to send remotely piloted aircraft across the world to gather  intelligence and attack targets. But the spread of digital technology  comes at a cost: it exposes armies and societies to digital attack.
THROUGHOUT history new technologies have revolutionised warfare,  sometimes abruptly, sometimes only gradually: think of the chariot,  gunpowder, aircraft, radar and nuclear fission. So it has been with  information technology. Computers and the internet have transformed  economies and given Western armies great advantages, such as the ability  to send remotely piloted aircraft across the world to gather  intelligence and attack targets. But the spread of digital technology  comes at a cost: it exposes armies and societies to digital attack.Ler todo o artigo aqui na revista THE ECONOMIST
sexta-feira, julho 09, 2010
HAITI: 6 MESES APÓS O TERRAMOTO
 Fonte: Huffingtonpost
                                                                          Fonte: Huffingtonpost
12 de Janeiro de 2010, o Haiti é alvo de um terramoto que viria a devastar todo o país.
Rapidamente todas as equipas de reportagem do mundo inteiro convergem para este cenário apocalíptico; procura-se mobilizar recursos e coordenar intervenções de ajuda humanitária.
Assistimos a belas imagens de salvamento, assim como há mais dura realidade de procura de sobrevivência, a todo o custo.
6 meses passaram e o Haiti já saiu à muito dos nossos ecrãs.
Resta-nos a Agência de Noticias Haitiana para fazer essa ligação.

 
 




