What we learn measuring, building and documenting public programmes across Kenya and Somalia. Written by the teams doing the work, not a marketing desk.
Independence is necessary but not sufficient. What actually makes verification credible, from sampling honesty to enumerator discipline.
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A finished building is not a handed over building. Lessons from delivering classrooms and laboratories under Kenya's SEQIP programme.
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Devolved climate money is arriving at scale in Kenya. Whether it works will be decided by safeguards, systems and stories, not the size of the cheque.
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Most public sector software dies a year after the consultants leave. How to build management information systems that survive handover.
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The bar for local firms in development partner programmes is not lower. It is different. Notes from five years on the supplier side.
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Beyond the AGPO certificate: what ownership actually changes on sites, in field teams and in what gets promised.
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