DFID Adviser Blogs

The DFID Bloggers website features staff blogs with real life perspectives from those working on the ground to fight poverty. HEART think the following will be of interest:

• Health Blogs
• Education Blogs
• Nutrition Blogs

Education Adviser Blog: Ian Attfield is a DFID Education Adviser in Tanzania. In August 2012 he relocated from Harare, Zimbabwe to Dar es Salaam. His role is to support DFID’s education programme coordination and management, which includes both budget support and project finance.

Health Adviser Blog: Neil Squires has been the DFID Head of Profession for Health since August 2011. His role gives him an oversight of the work of all DFID’s Health Advisers and he will be drawing on their experience of supporting health programmes around the world to highlight some of the exciting work that DFID does.

DFID Bloggers

• My visit to the UK’s busiest FGM clinic
  Published on 2014-12-16
• The changing face of Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya
  Published on 2014-12-11
• Violence against women is the most tolerated violation of human rights that exists in the world today – it needs to stop
  Published on 2014-12-10
• Violence against women and girls: change is in the air
  Published on 2014-12-02
• Random acts of violence: women and girls take the hit
  Published on 2014-12-01
• DRC’s youth got talent
  Published on 2014-11-27
• Data revolution at 15,000 feet
  Published on 2014-11-19
• Women and clean energy in Bangladesh
  Published on 2014-10-31
• Ending child marriage in Bangladesh: girls not brides
  Published on 2014-10-31
• Breaking the silence: violence against women in Somalia and beyond
  Published on 2014-10-27
• ‘Saving Lives, Saving Futures’ or something in between ?
  Published on 2014-10-03
• Can better evidence transform learning in low income countries?
  Published on 2014-10-03
• The future of development innovation
  Published on 2014-09-24
• Mobile phones: good for your health?
  Published on 2014-09-23
• The Post-2015 development agenda – one year to go
  Published on 2014-09-22
• If society doesn’t treat women as equal – they won’t be
  Published on 2014-09-19
• A better future for Rwanda’s youth – how Sport Relief is changing lives
  Published on 2014-09-15
• A safer delivery for Kenyan mothers
  Published on 2014-07-02
• Genuinely learning from Saudi Arabia
  Published on 2014-07-01
• Money and midterm reflections
  Published on 2014-06-20