I hope the contributions from Josie, Matt and Heather gave an interesting break from my normal drivel. And have you seen the video in Matt's? All the bells and whistles on this site!
Nothing to report really since the visitors left. Sheila helped her boss at a good training for ECD facilitators last week and is off tomorrow to visit a district to see how it is being put into practice. She thinks it might involve an overnight stay so is worrying where they will stay (I think that really means "will there only be squat toilets") and how cold it will be. I'm still churning out spreadsheets to finalise our UNDP project funding. Relations with UNDP are a lot more friendly than last year but the situation is the same; the programme should have started on 1 November and 4 weeks later we still haven't got a contract - cash will take at least another week or 2 after that. Hopefully my colleagues will manage to scrape up enough cash to run some activities on World AIDS Day this Saturday.
Thinking of unreal world that donors work in, I was amused by the following instructions on a World Bank proposal form:
INSTRUCTIONS
1. All questions are mandatory.
2. If you want to leave any question blank, please write NA.
Will stop now before my laptop dies. We have an unscheduled power cut which apparently will last until 5pm (1.5 hours more).
Cheers
Roshan
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