The corporation received several awards in 2008 for implementing development works.
Our experience in designing and implementing development programmes has shown that meaningful stakeholder participation leads to lasting support for health and social interventions.
Amref, which has been implementing development work in this rural sub-county of north-east Uganda, funded by Guardian readers and Barclays, since 2007, has increased access to safe water from 42% to 66% over the last two years.
But thanks to the support of the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref), which is implementing development work in Katine, funded by Guardian readers and Barclays, Amwano now owns a water jar for harvesting rainwater.
The resulting decrease in security is impeding our efforts to implement development projects in support of critical U.S. national goals of eliminating terrorist safe havens in Pakistan and stabilizing Afghanistan.
Today, thanks to the economic citizenship programme, we are finally in a position to implement development plans that were first drawn up forty years ago.
In their efforts to implement development and innovation strategies, health-care organizations often face the unconscious remains of Taylorism from the era of industrial management on the one hand, and constant disagreement between managers and doctors or between groups of health-care professionals on the other.
The EU has shown little sense of urgency in implementing the development effectiveness agenda agreed at Busan, South Korea, a year ago, a group of European NGOs has concluded.
Instead, efforts were directed towards "doing the best we can" within difficult circumstances. - Lack of knowledge and skills in implementing community development responses.
Assessing African countries' progress in implementing the millennium development goals, the report hailed "impressive gains" on enrolment in primary schools, women's political representation, reducing child and maternal deaths, and cutting the prevalence of HIV and Aids.
