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The Twelve Days of Christmas (Aid Edition)™

It's an oldy but a goody, and the only thing I always  repost. Go on, sing along:

On the twelfth day of Christmas my donors gave to me

twelve delayed disbursements!

eleven sketchy studies

ten consultants calling

nine economists arguing

eight mission meetings

seven worthless workshops

six gender trainings

five RCTs!

four 4x4s

three acronyms

two empty schools

and a lecture on M&E!

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Still on sale.

Categories: Worst practices

1 Comment

Nico · December 29, 2014 at 05:18 PM

...so right, Henk, and yet, and yet, we have to get up, all the time, even when we feel like being little Don Quixotes.