Continued from Part I and Part II, these are my thoughts from my recent visit to two of our top charities in Africa. Some of what I saw and discussed prompted me to rethink our frameworks for evaluating certain kinds of programs: Vaccinations. We’ve taken the “vaccination coverage rate” as a reasonable proxy for lives…
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Thoughts from my visits to Small Enterprise Foundation (South Africa) and VillageReach (Mozambique), part II
Continued from Part I, these are my thoughts from my recent visit to two of our top charities in Africa. Diverting skilled labor looks like a real concern. The COO of SEF stressed that one of SEF’s biggest challenges is human resources (i.e., continually finding good people to staff it). I can easily see how…
Thoughts from my visits to Small Enterprise Foundation (South Africa) and VillageReach (Mozambique), part I
I previously posted “raw data” (pictures, audio, notes) from my recent visit to two of our top charities in Africa. The next few posts will give my thoughts from the trip. First, a note on representativeness. I was only in Africa for two weeks; I was a complete outsider; I certainly don’t think that anything…