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		<title>The gift of giving anonymously</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was catching up on email and came across a fascinating Daily Good post about a couple that has chosen to give, anonymously, $52 per week for 52 weeks. While their giving is anonymous, they post each week about &#8230; <a href="http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/the-gift-of-giving-anonymously/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopebuilding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5098489&amp;post=363&amp;subd=hopebuilding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talking about the ‘unmentionable’ &#8211; menstruation as a development opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common searches that brings people to Hopebuilding wiki is about sanitary pads for young women. People search on this topic from all over the world. Clearly, awareness of the importance of this issue has greatly increased. &#8230; <a href="http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/talking-about-the-%e2%80%98unmentionable%e2%80%99-menstruation-as-a-development-opportunity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopebuilding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5098489&amp;post=355&amp;subd=hopebuilding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much money does locally-led peacebuilding save?</title>
		<link>http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/how-much-money-does-locally-led-peacebuilding-save/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the big challenges in evaluating development projects that involve social change is the question of proving that what you did led to specific results. There is a fascinating discussion about this question on Alex Jacob’s NGO Performance blog. &#8230; <a href="http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/how-much-money-does-locally-led-peacebuilding-save/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopebuilding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5098489&amp;post=345&amp;subd=hopebuilding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why ideas about &#8216;governance&#8217; matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the government of Somalia collapsed in 1991, it reflected widespread popular discontent with the autocratic, militaristic and increasingly corrupt regime of Said-Barre, who had run the country since a coup in the late 1960s. It did not necessarily mean &#8230; <a href="http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/why-ideas-about-governance-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopebuilding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5098489&amp;post=349&amp;subd=hopebuilding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts about shopping, and short-term vs long-term thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought about how you shop, and why you shop that way? Do you go to the supermarket once a week, list in hand, credit or debit card at the ready, fill up a shopping cart, load up &#8230; <a href="http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/thoughts-about-shopping-and-short-term-vs-long-term-thinking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopebuilding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5098489&amp;post=328&amp;subd=hopebuilding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The power of curiosity</title>
		<link>http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/the-power-of-curiosity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that we live in a world where almost four billion people live on less than $2 a day, there has been a surprising lack of curiosity over the years about how they live and how they manage their money. &#8230; <a href="http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/the-power-of-curiosity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopebuilding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5098489&amp;post=317&amp;subd=hopebuilding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neighbours learning from neighbours</title>
		<link>http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/neighbours-learning-from-neighbours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maps and borders are human creations. Remember when the first astronauts saw earth from space and realized there were no borders visible? Artificial lines on a map, however, influence us more deeply than we think. For one thing, we divide &#8230; <a href="http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/neighbours-learning-from-neighbours/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopebuilding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5098489&amp;post=164&amp;subd=hopebuilding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;An army of grey haired women has taken over the earth&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American feminist Gloria Steinem once remarked that “one day an army of grey haired women may quietly take over the earth”. I think they have done it, and no one has noticed. I say this because of the Grandmother to &#8230; <a href="http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/an-army-of-grey-haired-women-has-taken-over-the-earth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopebuilding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5098489&amp;post=304&amp;subd=hopebuilding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tapping into the power of nature</title>
		<link>http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/tapping-into-the-power-of-nature-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving back along the road to Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo one evening this spring, I was struck by the darkness. There were no lights until we got to the city. The reason is simple: there is no &#8230; <a href="http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/tapping-into-the-power-of-nature-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopebuilding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5098489&amp;post=298&amp;subd=hopebuilding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why DDR should be a community-based activity, not a stand-alone activity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago now, when my younger daughter was attending elementary school in Yellowknife, the principal and vice-principal introduced an innovation – they began, as part of school assemblies, to reward pupils for good behavior. It changed the dynamic of &#8230; <a href="http://hopebuilding.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/why-ddr-should-be-a-community-based-activity-not-a-stand-alone-activity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hopebuilding.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5098489&amp;post=191&amp;subd=hopebuilding&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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