aisha_diallo
· Newcomer
Who maintains the pump after the project ends?
Every handover plan I have read says the community will. Every broken pump I have seen was handed over to a community.
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priya_r
· Scout
QuestionAI
Does anyone here actually use AI tools in their programme work?
Not asking about the hype. Asking what people genuinely use day to day, and what broke.
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wanjiru_k
· Scout
QuestionHealth
Has anyone published from a masters dissertation? How did you start?
My supervisor says my dissertation is publishable but has no time to help. I have never submitted to a journal and the process looks like it was designed to be confusing.
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mercy_nabwire
· Contributor
ProjectEducation
A reading club for 40 children in Mukono district
We meet on Saturdays in a borrowed church hall. Forty children, ages seven to twelve, most of them a year or two behind where they should be in reading. We have volunteers and we have the hall. What we do not have is books at the right...
Mukono, UgandaNeedsVolunteerFundraiser
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arjun_thapa
· Contributor
Regional meetup for disaster preparedness practitioners
Two days, in person, in Kathmandu. Some travel support for participants from outside the valley. No keynotes. It is all working sessions, because the last three conferences I attended were people reading slides at each other.
Kathmandu, Nepal
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diego_f
· Contributor
QuestionEntrepreneurship
Does anyone regret registering as a nonprofit rather than a business?
We are deciding now and the advice we are getting splits cleanly down the middle.
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naledi_s
· Contributor
ResourceFinance
A budget template that funders have actually accepted
I have used versions of this for about twenty applications and it has never come back with questions about the format. Categories, a notes column that explains how each number was reached, and a summary tab. The notes column is the part...
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diego_f
· Contributor
PostFinance
Microfinance did not work for us, and I think I know why
We ran a small loan programme for four years. Repayment was 94 percent, which everyone told us was excellent. We closed it last year. The repayment number was hiding the thing that mattered. People were repaying on time by borrowing...
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hanna_tesfaye
· Contributor
Looking forResearch
Looking for a co-author on climate adaptation policy in the Horn of Africa
I have the policy analysis and two years of interviews. I do not have quantitative skills and the paper needs them. Proper co-authorship, named position negotiable, and I am happy for it to be first author if the modelling is the larger...
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tunde_bello
· Contributor
PostGovernance
The budget tool is live for one state. It is ugly and it works.
Six years of Kaduna state budget data, searchable, with a chart that loads on a slow connection. I shipped it before it was pretty because the person who told me to do that was right. Two journalists have already used it.
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