
Wry, whimsical dispatches from the frontlines of aid and social change. Alice reports from DevelopmentLand, where good intentions meet polite absurdity.
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The White Rabbit called me. “Alice, post-mortems are important occasions to hone your evaluation practice and to build your institutional profile. I expect you to be there.”
So, on Thursday I put on a borrowed lab coat and followed him up...
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Last we spoke I had come to the end of the tale of my time in DevelopmentLand with my unscheduled return to my home after unintentionally running headlong into a bullet aimed at Mama Njeri. Thankfully my White Rabbit friend, n...
Dear Alice in DevelopmentLand subscribers
Alice’s Dispatches from the grubby end of international aid and philanthropy has now become a book, with fairly substantial reworking and an added last Dispatch.
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Dear Friends and Fellow Wonderers
I will begin at the beginning. But let me say something about the end first… There have been rumours about my demise, and I can confirm that, as with Schrödinger’s cat, those rumours are bot...
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Dear Friends and Fellow Wonderers
DevelopmentLand lives almost entirely from the neck up. We theorise, we strategise, we operationalise, we rationalise, and although many of us freely admit this, still we struggle to shake i...
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My name is Alice. I followed a logframing white rabbit down a hole and landed here in DevelopmentLand. For my own therapy I write these regular dispatches to try to squeeze some sense out of this land of surreal paradox and absurdities.
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