Accenture Development Partnerships Blog

Birth of the Virtual Conference

Candare, Ronalyn B. — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:32:00 GMT

By Gib Bulloch, Executive Director, Accenture Development Partnerships I’m told that you could attend an mHealth(mobileHealth) conference somewhere in the world every four days if you were that way inclined. Indeed, there are no shortage of business and development conferences of all sorts of siz ... (More)

Female Entrepreneurship in The Gambia

Candare, Ronalyn B. — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:33:00 GMT

By Vicky Strawson, consultant in Accenture’s Resources Strategy practice currently seconded to Accenture Development Partnerships Global Programs team I recently accompanied Isatou Ceesay on an inspiring journey in The Gambia. During one trip we travelled to the Somita Women’s Initiative; the dus ... (More)

Women in IT: NetHope Academy Participant Spotlight

Candare, Ronalyn B. — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:34:00 GMT

Emmanuella Stimphat is one of a few special women I’ve come to know through the NetHope Academy program in Haiti. She may not yet know it, but she is a real role model for thousands of young Haitian women. Emmanuella grew up with her five brothers and sisters in a Port-au-Prince neighborhood cal ... (More)

Skollers of Social Enterprise

Candare, Ronalyn B. — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:36:00 GMT

I had a fascinating three days in Oxford at the end of March at the 8th Skoll World Forum (SWF), hosted once again at the impressive Said Business School. This energetic gathering is fast becoming one of the "must attend" events on the responsible business calendar: more diverse than Dav ... (More)

The Coast Must be Clear

Alarma, John Paul S. — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:38:00 GMT

Uncertainty over the disputed elections in the Cote d’Ivoire creates uncertainty for the “inclusive” business movement. The stalemate in Cote d’Ivoire is more than a political disaster—it has put on hold negotiations aimed at addressing structural problems in the important cocoa-growing sector th ... (More)

A year in Haiti – post 3

Alarma, John Paul S. — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:40:00 GMT

As Accenture Development Partnerships continues to contribute to long term recovery and economic development in Haiti, Dan Baker reflects on the past year. Here’s the third of his posts from 2010 November 2010 A lot of people have asked me what the noticeable differences in my third trip to Hait ... (More)

A year in Haiti – post 2

Alarma, John Paul S. — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:42:00 GMT

As Accenture Development Partnerships continues to contribute to long term recovery and economic development in Haiti, Dan Baker reflects on the past year. Here’s the second of his posts from 2010… June 2010 In June, ADP attended a delegation to Haiti organized by the Business Civic Leadership C ... (More)

A year in Haiti

Alarma, John Paul S. — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:44:00 GMT

As Accenture Development Partnerships continues to contribute to long term recovery and economic development in Haiti, Dan Baker reflects on the past year. Over the course of three blog posts documenting three separate visits to Haiti in 2010 (to be published over the coming weeks), Dan looks at ... (More)

The eLearning Curve

Alarma, John Paul S. — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:45:00 GMT

How technology is transforming education in Africa For many years, education in Africa has predominantly been based on the traditional model of a teacher lecturing with a blackboard. This has the obvious advantage of being a low-cost and easy to replicate model that requires no power— not even el ... (More)

A changing climate

Piñon, Eugenio I. — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:46:00 GMT

Why climate change policies and poverty reduction strategies need to work together Global temperatures are predicted to rise between 1.1°C and 6.4°C (2.0°F and 11.5°F) during the 21st century[i]. As a result, natural disasters and extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and hurricanes ar ... (More)