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		<title>How international NGOs killed civil society in developing countries</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/02/01/how-international-ngos-killed-civil-society-in-developing-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the strangest things about southern Sudan is how weak the local NGO community is. It&#8217;s five years after the end of the war, with five years of focused attention from the international community, and five years with an increasing presence of international organisations looking for partners. Yet everybody agrees &#8211; particularly the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/01/24/reinventing-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people are attached to &#8220;Build Back Better&#8221;, and it bothers me. If we want to &#8220;build back&#8221; a country that was such a nightmare that most of the citizens basically wanted to get the hell out, build back better is the way to go; if we want to participate in a project that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking smack about reinventing Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/01/22/talking-smack-about-reinventing-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=778</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, the bad news: the extended blog post in which I explain what I meant by Just Say No to Build Back Better has been eaten by black hats (probably Chinese, since everybody else wants to blame them for everything else). I&#8217;m going to get back to it, but it&#8217;s going to take a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: Just Say No to Build Back Better</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/01/17/haiti-just-say-no-to-build-back-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reconstruction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Haiti is on my (thankfully) short list of &#8220;Countries for which I genuinely can&#8217;t see a solution&#8221;. It&#8217;s a possibility that we don&#8217;t like to think about &#8211; that perhaps there are certain situations which countries (loosely defined) cannot get out of. There&#8217;s no logical reason why this couldn&#8217;t happen &#8211; read Jared Diamond&#8217;s &#8220;Collapse&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On not caring about Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2010/01/14/on-not-caring-about-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The earthquake that struck Haiti is a terrible disaster that requires the international community to provide both immediate aid to save lives and longer-term support to rebuild infrastructure and livelihoods. Even as I write those words, I&#8217;m reading between the lines, and my sympathy for the Haitians affected by the quake is tempered outweighed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faster PowerPoint! Kill! Kill!</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/12/05/faster-powerpoint-kill-kill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Tufte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerPoint]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Serious problems require a serious tool: written reports. For nearly all engineering and scientific communication, instead of PowerPoint, the presentation and reporting software should be a word-processing program capable of capturing, editing and publishing text, tables, data graphics, images and scientific notation. Replacing PowerPoint with Microsoft Word (or, better, a tool with non-proprietary universal formats) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brother’s on the slide</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/12/01/brothers-on-the-slide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Tufte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerPoint]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Knock, knock, knocking PowerPoint, all week long.
Anybody who cares about &#8220;our&#8221; kind of information management should read Edward Tufte&#8217;s classic The Visual Display of Quantitive Information. Yes, I know it&#8217;s expensive &#8211; get your gran to buy it you for Christmas or something. What I didn&#8217;t know is that Tufte also wrote a short essay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“If it’s not on the slide…”</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/11/30/if-its-not-on-the-slide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/11/30/if-its-not-on-the-slide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PowerPoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Lind]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having recently spent a pleasant few weeks with the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, I am disappointed to report that William Lind&#8217;s thoughts about PowerPoint are equally applicable outside the US military:
The U.S. military has carried the formal meeting’s uselessness to a new height with its unique cultural totem, the PowerPoint brief. Almost all business in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tip of the Week: GET OUT OF THE WAY</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/11/29/get-out-of-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/11/29/get-out-of-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WFP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the WFP Logistics Blog:
One thing that strikes me about David’s account is his mention of Filomena Nelson and how it was best to just get “out of her way”. Good logistics officers are adept at entering into a chaotic situation, appreciating what has been achieved by local teams and then figuring out how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking about Paper</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/11/24/talking-about-paper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/11/24/talking-about-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Kirkpatrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sahana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talking Papers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A warm welcome to the blogosphere to Robert Kirkpatrick, scion of Groove and Microsoft Humanitarian Systems. With the formalities out of the way, I can tear apart his first post to get at the raw meat inside.
Robert is bang on the money when he says that &#8220;In every disaster zone and every rural development environment&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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