‘The year … served as a brutal reminder to the Roman people that all their greatness, their prosperity, might be threatened by the very quality that had originally won them their empire…their aptitude for killing.’ The US today, with troops being ordered into cities? From Pax by Tom Holland p xxvii

#vaccines work. Newborn babies are among the biggest beneficiaries of vaccines. 50 years ago, nearly 10/100 babies died in their first year of life. Now fewer than 3/100 babies do. Since 1974, vaccination has averted 101 million deaths globally in infants under one.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Opening of international workshop on #monitoring the #justtransition, organised by ICAT, WRI and Presidential #Climate Commission, in Cape Town.

Eurocentric distortion

Just read The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guinn. She uses sci-fi to explore property based society vs #anarchist society. There is only a passing reference to Earth on page 286 - telling as this is exactly what we are doing, knowingly destroying the planet. ⁦‪@GeorgeMonbiot‬⁩ ⁦‪@jasonhickel‬⁩

Applying #M&E through the #policy cycle. #SHIPDET training in M&E systems in Shanghai organised by Asian Development Bank. Co-facilitating with Bridget Dillon. In the picture. theories of change on a programme they selected from Mongolia and Fiji.

Applying the #policy cycle with varying timeframes of from a typhoon coming in 10 days to 3 years to produce a plan. #SHIPDET training in M&E systems organised by Asian Development Bank. In the picture Indonesian and Fiji teams at work.

Start of #SHIPDET training this week Building Effective National M&E Systems. Cofacilitated by Bridget Dillon and I, organised by ADB #Evaluation Office and AFCDI. Tajikistan, Mongolia, Nepal, Fiji, Indonesia participating. Opened by Lu Wenwin of AFDI, Eduardo Abello and Maya Vijaravaghan of ADB.