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Measurement Takes Center Stage in Bill Gates' 2013 Letter

NTEN

Bill Gates sees measurement as the path to follow to meet and overcome that challenge: Given how tight budgets are around the world, governments are rightfully demanding effectiveness in the programs they pay for. A recent national survey of Ethiopia’s vaccination coverage reported vastly different results from the government’s own estimates.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Field Trips and Real World Experience.

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Rwanda and Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program.

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TechSoup joins the #ALSIceBucketChallenge

Tech Soup

If you haven't been on Facebook, Twitter, and even mainstream media like CNN in the past couple of weeks, it's the viral sensation where an individual, upon challenged by a friend online, douses themselves with ice and/or water on camera.

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Clouds of international development information

Forum One

Owen is based in Ethiopia; his wife works for an NGO that builds clinics. Synching up aid data is a more challenging project--but one that could yield rich rewards and make a significant contribution to alleviating human suffering, even in (especially in) the difficult financial environment we're facing.

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Storymakers 2014 Winners — A Global Success

Tech Soup

"We are beyond thrilled to accept the grand prize award for this year's 2014 Storymakers challenge. The winner of a digital story new to the TechSoup Storymakers challenge is "Dr. Mark Karnes" by Soddo Christian Hospital (Ethiopia). Please visit the site to view this video).

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. I improvised and had participants pass around a flower.

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