By tomorrow at any cost
By Mike Bailey, World Vision MEER Advocacy Manager & Muhammad Ali, Senior Communications Officer World Vision Pakistan "By tomorrow at any cost." Arungzeb; World Vision's Area Manager for Multan in Punjab is on the phone, in the car travelling from one
Taking the security threat seriously in Pakistan - some unpopular thoughts
A wise security officer once told me: "You can no longer reduce the threat, so reduce the risk". For several years, we, aidworkers, have gone beyond the point where we can reduce the external threat of terrorist attacks on us. So we should confine to reduc
What does it smell like there?
Written by: Mike Bailey, World Vision Advocacy Manager "What does it smell like there"? I asked the World Vision Pakistan Advocacy Manager over the phone to Sukkar, in Pakistan's Sindh province. "When you get close to where the people who have been displac
Financial Reform Act: anti-corruption and transparency provisions
Sam Eastwood is a partner and Adam Smith a business ethics researcher at British-based law firm Norton Rose
A Flower Still Blooms: Personal Reflections on Kyrgyzstan and Kosovo on World Humanitarian Day
At the end of June, Refugees International's Senior Advisor Dawn Calabia and I headed to the Fergana Valley, to southern Kyrgyzstan where from June 10 to 14, attacks by unknown assailants triggered violence between majority Kyrgyz and minority Uzbek commun
Under Britain's new bribery act, the buck stops with company directors
Robert Amaee is Head of Anti-Corruption, Proceeds of Crime & International Assistance at Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO)
Locating an NGO media team
I had an interesting conversation the other day with someone from a humanitarian organisation strategising about where to locate media people around the world. I thought it might be useful to ask his question to readers here on AlertNet to canvass some wid
AID WORKER DIARY: Why talk about Pakistans militias misses the point
These blog posts are written by Thomas Schwarz, Emergency Media Officer for CARE International who is in Pakistan's flood hit regions. August 16, 2010 Local militia groups help flood victims and then publicly praises their own work. This is what I read in
Tired of giving?
By Rajeet Ghosh In the last week the planet has been ravaged by multiple natural disasters. In Asia, a third of Pakistan is under water and in India 170 people have died in floods, while China is still struggling with the aftermath of massive mudslides in