Cities and urban poverty
“How can a Brazilian environmental consultant not be specialised in forests?” Most Europeans I come across immediately associate environmental issues in Brazil to the Amazon. I always have to explain over and over that over 75% of the Brazilian population live in cities and that the environmental problems of cities are as important as those in the Amazon. Continue reading→
First impressions count
First impressions in facilitation, however, are more than the type of clothes you wear. We need to spend more time in the contact phase. We need to give more emphasis to the learning journey at the start of programmes.Continue reading→
Failing to re-contract
When things go wrong, it’s like a domino. With much of the work remotely, the report was all over the place, written by different people with different ideas on their minds. We went around in circles. External circumstances changed and the direction of the work took a U-turn.Continue reading→
Pushing the Boundaries of Report Writing
Writing evaluation reports can be as daunting as reading them! With the information collected by three consultants, in more than 130 stakeholders interviews, over ten focus group discussions (FGDs), field visits to four countries and virtual country engagement, to summarize it all in a user-friendly way is a challenge.Continue reading→