@aki, somethings are not always obvious, I work (code) in an NGO and one of those &quot;obvious&quot; questions that people get wrong is how do you upgrade a slum? If think the answer is in the pseudo code below then you are wrong.<div>
<br></div><div>&lt;wrong way to upgrade a slum&gt;</div><div><ul><li>move slum dwellers to temporary shelter</li><li>upgrade the land they moved from with better facilities</li><li>move the slum dwellers back to their new and upgraded homes</li>
</ul></div><div><div>&lt;/wrong way to upgrade a slum&gt;</div><div><br></div><div>The best practice in development projects is before you spend your billions on a region, know what works and what doest.</div><div><ul style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 204, 0); font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;, monospace; font-size: 13px; ">
<li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Develop a fully connected SME network</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Fill the skills gap in advanced business and technical knowledge</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Provide start-up and early stage funding for companies</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Enable job creation for knowledge workers, and</li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Upgrade the business environment</li></ul>The above broad subjects can be very invaluable to a developer, country and donor who wants to invest its resources into a project.</div>
<div><br></div><div>P.S </div><div>What is obvious to you is not obvious to a project manager in Worldbank. Consider using your knowledge to make money as an advisor or consultant for infodev or worldbank. But be warned if your knowledge will be based on opinion and not study, chances are you will be creating more problems than solutions</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:21 PM, aki <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:aki275@gmail.com">aki275@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>@Humphrey, in the first link you provided below which contains these points below, please tell me of local implementation. And also please tell me that we are really dumb not to know these things thereforre we need some very knowledgeable people at InfoDev to tell it as is:</div>


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<li>Develop a fully connected SME network 
</li><li>Fill the skills gap in advanced business and technical knowledge 
</li><li>Provide start-up and early stage funding for companies 
</li><li>Enable job creation for knowledge workers, and 
</li><li>Upgrade the business environment</li></ul>
<div>The third point above is so catching. Who in Kenya is going to provide this facility? </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Humphrey Ngoiya <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hngoiya@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">hngoiya@yahoo.co.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:#ccc 1px solid;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">@Aki, 
<div>this time you are wrong, 
<div><a href="http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.1040.html" target="_blank">http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.1040.html</a> </div>
<div><a href="http://www.infodev.org/en/TopicPublications.22.html" target="_blank">http://www.infodev.org/en/TopicPublications.22.html</a></div>
<div>Are very insightful publications both to developers, donors and governments working in developing countries.</div>
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