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Like millions of others I've been angered and saddened by the terrorist attacks on Mumbai. While I've live in the U.S. for several decades, I spent much of my youth in Mumbai. Mumbai is not a place of terror but a place of close friendship and love among people of many cultures. Read more... |
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As G-8 leaders gather in Japan this week, one of the main points of discussion will be the extraordinary rise in the international prices of agricultural commodities. The rise in commodity prices has mirrored food price hikes throughout the developing world, including in China and India. Increased prices are impacting the lives of millions of poor, contributing to overall inflationary pressures and risking political unrest. Read more... |
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A Question of Will or Doing the Right Things and Doing them Right? |
The Washington Post's lead editorial following the White House Summit on Malaria, titled Fighting scourges such as Malaria and AIDS requires strong institutions (December 18) correctly noted the disarray at the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, and stressed the importance of leadership, direction and funds for the Global Fund. Arguing that perhaps more than half of the $8 billion-plus that is needed for these three diseases will have to come from the Global Fund, it acknowledged the need for funds as well as a balance between hands off and hand on approach in aid recipient countries by the future Global Fund. Clearly what it could not say in a short editorial is that not just the strength, but the institutional design of donor aid for public health more generally will have profound impact on the speed, efficiency and effectiveness with which the scourge of the three diseases afflicting developing countries is eliminated.
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Global Environment Facility - Interaction Between Evaluation Offices and Governing Bodies: A Compara |
Since the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Office of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M and E) was made independent and the new Director of M and E Robert van den Berg was appointed, the office of M and E as well as the GEF Council have been keen to increase the effectiveness of the evaluation function. The external independent evaluation of the GEF carried out in 2004-05 on which I served as one of the five members of High Level External Advisory Panel also reinforced this objective. My experience and that of Rema Balasundaram in evaluating global programs and partnerships led the GEF Office of M and E to invite us to conduct this comparative study about interaction between evaluation offices and governing bodies.
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