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		<title>A loop closes in Zimbabwe?</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/09/29/a-loop-closes-in-zimbabwe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Longley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, this blog is dormant but we don&#8217;t often have good news to share; so, here we go&#8230;
The  baseless and preposterous charges of banditry against humanitarian.info&#8217;s friend, Zimbabwe Peace Project National Director Jestina Mukoko were yesterday bounced out by Zimbabwe&#8217;s Supreme Court. Zimbabwean Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, quoted in  the BBC, said:
&#8220;The state, through its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Mukoko bail reinstated &#8211; crazy things happening</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/05/06/update-mukoko-bail-reinstated-crazy-things-happening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/05/06/update-mukoko-bail-reinstated-crazy-things-happening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Longley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Uh-oh &#8230; events overtake blogging. After writing the previous post about how Jestina Mukoko&#8217;s bail had been revoked, the following happened:
Zimbabwean rights activist Jestina Mukoko and 14 other people were ordered freed on bail Wednesday after the president and the prime minister forced a judge to reverse the previous day&#8217;s decision that had sparked outrage.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mukoko bail revoked, preposterous show-trial to continue</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/05/06/mukoko-bail-revoked-preposterous-show-trial-to-continue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/05/06/mukoko-bail-revoked-preposterous-show-trial-to-continue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 13:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Longley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Collection]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jestina Mukoko]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As feared, the Zimbabwean state continues to press its shonky case against my colleague Jestina Mukoko, National Director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, and 14 other Zimbabwean political and civil society activists. From Violet Gonda at SW Radio Africa:
The courthouse was packed Tuesday with journalists, members of civil society and the diplomatic community, who were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why more work for less money is a good thing</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/04/24/more-work-less-money-a-good-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/04/24/more-work-less-money-a-good-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capacity Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IRIN reports on how the financial crisis is affecting the NGO community while Michael rounds up the details (and will be keeping a running tally, no doubt):
&#8220;Clearly the impact of the financial downturn on charities is widening and deepening,&#8221; said Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the Charity Commission, the independent regulator for charitable activity in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming up for a breath of positive</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/04/09/coming-up-for-a-breath-of-positive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/04/09/coming-up-for-a-breath-of-positive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NGO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Relief Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NetHope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WinRock International]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s take a break from the more negative posts of the past few days to congratulate the members of NetHope who recently won Intel&#8217;s INSPIRE•EMPOWER Challenge.1 Catholic Relief Services&#8217; Great Lakes Cassava Initiative (GLCI):
&#8230; a pilot project using laptops to help cassava farmers increase food availability and incomes. Millions of families in East and Central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t eat dog food unless it&#8217;s raw</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/04/07/i-dont-eat-dog-food-unless-its-raw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/04/07/i-dont-eat-dog-food-unless-its-raw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NGO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Divide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FrontlineSMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Banks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ken Banks has almost written a manifesto for himself in Time to eat our own dog food? I think there&#8217;s a lot of potential in his project FrontlineSMS &#8211; mainly because it&#8217;s a platform. Like any good platform, it&#8217;s up to the end user (in this case, grassroots NGOs) to work out how they want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bail for jailed Zimbabwean activists?</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/03/02/bail-for-jailed-zimbabwean-activists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/03/02/bail-for-jailed-zimbabwean-activists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Longley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brodrek Takawira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends and Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jestina Mukoko]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC and Alertnet are echoing the wires that the  bail applications of ZPP&#8217;s Jestina Mukoko and Brodrek Takawira, and others have been granted.
The Police have routinely ignored previous court orders, so I hope that this is true. The lawyers seem to think so though. I await some confirmation from colleagues and if so, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the future</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/02/18/welcome-to-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2009/02/18/welcome-to-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dambisa Moyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Glennie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiva]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I predicted that &#8211; absent significant reform, particularly around accountability &#8211; the humanitarian community would be overtaken by events and rendered increasingly irrelevant. One area where this seemed inevitable was fundraising with the general public &#8211; if we continue to treat people like clueless chumps in our fundraising, then as their access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Activist Jestina Mukoko in Police custody, show trial to come</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/12/24/update-activist-jestina-mukoko-in-police-custody-show-trial-to-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/12/24/update-activist-jestina-mukoko-in-police-custody-show-trial-to-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Longley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NGO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jestina Mukoko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
(ZPP Director Jestina Mukoko, in red, and ZPP Provincial Coordinator Brodreck Takawira, in white shirt, entering court in Harare, 24 December 2008 [Source: BBC])
Earlier this month I wrote about my friend Jestina Mukoko, Director of Zimbabwe Peace Project, who on 3 December 2008 was abducted from her home near Harare.
Since then, despite a very loud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kill Your Reports</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/10/31/kill-your-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/10/31/kill-your-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knowledge Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reporting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alanna:
Most people picture international work as feeding hungry people, providing health care to refugees, or building schools. In reality, it makes no sense to pay an expatriate to do that. Instead, we do what cannot be hired locally: English-language paperwork. We write reports to HQ and donors, proposals, and program guidelines. We write even more [...]]]></description>
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