Colleagues, These are great ideas that are potentially transformative. I thank the team that has assembled these issues and presented them elegantly. The activities are indeed ambitious..which is great. I like the target for education,150 PhDs in 10 years! A PhD program takes any where between 3 and 7 years and is quite resource intensive. To achieve this target, we need massive enrollment in the next 3-4 years. That brings in the issue of financing. How shall we fund all the suggested interventions? Perhaps the less developed idea in the present document is sources of funding. Investments in say a school for the foundation and agricultural projects will bring returns in the long run, but what about the start up costs?
The activities are all essential for the development of the region. Given their scale, we may need to prioritize, beginning with strengthening activities that are already underway such as those in the education sector. We could start by building a strong research, advocay and consultancy team that would help us focus on activities that have the greatest benefit to the region. Such a team would also provide leadership in resource mobilization through such activities as writing grant seeking proposals, lobbying development partners (donors), etc. Once again, thank you for the great job so far. Best regards, Ben On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, kindly get time and read this message. Your > contributions and discussions will change the way we think and do things. > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected] > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________ > >
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