Comments on: The Uganda Millennium Village http://globalhealthideas.org/2007/11/the-uganda-millennium-village/ Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:43:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: angie sterner http://globalhealthideas.org/2007/11/the-uganda-millennium-village/comment-page-1/#comment-1226 angie sterner Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:05:24 +0000 http://thdblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/the-uganda-millennium-village/#comment-1226 Ben, I read your post ( The Uganda Millennium Village Posted by Ben | Posted in Global Health | Posted on 21-11-2007) It is now november 2009. What is the status of MV1's agriculture/economy and the other infrastructure now? Angie Ben, I read your post ( The Uganda Millennium Village
Posted by Ben | Posted in Global Health | Posted on 21-11-2007)
It is now november 2009. What is the status of MV1’s agriculture/economy and the other infrastructure now?
Angie

]]> By: Ben http://globalhealthideas.org/2007/11/the-uganda-millennium-village/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Ben Sun, 18 May 2008 21:46:30 +0000 http://thdblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/the-uganda-millennium-village/#comment-427 Pat, my advice on selecting charities echoes your comment - go with those you know or trust. As for small projects' fundraising... the small charities and community projects are usually started by highly motivated individuals. They reach out to their friends and colleagues and build the organization through the hard work of demonstrating results. There are some online intermediaries these days who vet small projects and give them a space to be recognized. Be sure to read the <a href="http://www.networkforgood.org/donate/donatetips.aspx" rel="nofollow">Ten Tips to Giving Wisely</a> on Network for Good. And if you're interested, check out <a href="http://www.globalgiving.com/" rel="nofollow">GlobalGiving.com</a>, <a href="http://www.universalgiving.org/" rel="nofollow">UniversalGiving.org</a>, and <a href="http://www.kiva.org/" rel="nofollow">Kiva.org</a>. Global Giving takes 10% of your donation to cover overhead, Universal Giving and Kiva as far as I know cover their expenses with external grants, not your donation. Kiva partners with microlending organizations so your donated funds are repaid to you later and you are free to re-invest in future loans or withdraw. Pat, my advice on selecting charities echoes your comment – go with those you know or trust.

As for small projects’ fundraising… the small charities and community projects are usually started by highly motivated individuals. They reach out to their friends and colleagues and build the organization through the hard work of demonstrating results. There are some online intermediaries these days who vet small projects and give them a space to be recognized. Be sure to read the Ten Tips to Giving Wisely on Network for Good. And if you’re interested, check out GlobalGiving.com, UniversalGiving.org, and Kiva.org. Global Giving takes 10% of your donation to cover overhead, Universal Giving and Kiva as far as I know cover their expenses with external grants, not your donation. Kiva partners with microlending organizations so your donated funds are repaid to you later and you are free to re-invest in future loans or withdraw.

]]> By: pat http://globalhealthideas.org/2007/11/the-uganda-millennium-village/comment-page-1/#comment-426 pat Sun, 18 May 2008 15:36:53 +0000 http://thdblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/the-uganda-millennium-village/#comment-426 And your opinion about so many adopting and sponsoring programmes with a focus in Africa, all of them asking for donations? Sometimes I hesitate to donate and to trust those programmes they operate in a continent so far away, and despite many say they build schools and such, I don't know if I should believe them. Bigger projects like those run by the UN and Oxfam seem to me easier to trust. How should the smaller projects that are not run by those big names approach the world? And your opinion about so many adopting and sponsoring programmes with a focus in Africa, all of them asking for donations? Sometimes I hesitate to donate and to trust those programmes they operate in a continent so far away, and despite many say they build schools and such, I don’t know if I should believe them. Bigger projects like those run by the UN and Oxfam seem to me easier to trust.
How should the smaller projects that are not run by those big names approach the world?

]]> By: Ben http://globalhealthideas.org/2007/11/the-uganda-millennium-village/comment-page-1/#comment-425 Ben Thu, 15 May 2008 16:49:57 +0000 http://thdblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/the-uganda-millennium-village/#comment-425 The focus is on applying a wide range of development strategies in a targeted area with communities deciding on priorities and investments: improved seeds for better food production, hiring staff for health clinics and schools, improving the transport infrastructure and related activities. Check out the <a href="http://www.millenniumvillages.org/" rel="nofollow">MVP site</a> for details. As for incentives for children to attend school, it's been demonstrated to work well (great <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080306202719.htm" rel="nofollow">article in recent Lancet</a> about the longest running such project in Mexico) but I wouldn't call it a traditional approach to development aid yet. The focus is on applying a wide range of development strategies in a targeted area with communities deciding on priorities and investments: improved seeds for better food production, hiring staff for health clinics and schools, improving the transport infrastructure and related activities. Check out the MVP site for details. As for incentives for children to attend school, it’s been demonstrated to work well (great article in recent Lancet about the longest running such project in Mexico) but I wouldn’t call it a traditional approach to development aid yet.

]]> By: kuma http://globalhealthideas.org/2007/11/the-uganda-millennium-village/comment-page-1/#comment-428 kuma Thu, 15 May 2008 12:25:10 +0000 http://thdblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/the-uganda-millennium-village/#comment-428 For security, is it better if more communications be done between villages? I don't really understand the concept of these millenium villages. What separate them from the traditional aid group approach of targeting a place and village and provide aid and education for example by incentives-paying the children to go to school etc? What's so innovative about these millenium villages? Please tell me. For security, is it better if more communications be done between villages? I don’t really understand the concept of these millenium villages. What separate them from the traditional aid group approach of targeting a place and village and provide aid and education for example by incentives-paying the children to go to school etc? What’s so innovative about these millenium villages? Please tell me.

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