Big tobacco companies when asked about why they would have kids sell tobacco in Africa…would reply…they will most likely die of something else before dying of tobacco related disease. I would imagine that many of the people working around the aid sector is heavily invested (pension fund) in tobacco company.

What if INGOs would include a few minutes every day to do local campaign about safety on the road?? How much funding does that need?

An ounce of prevention would go a long way…but with so many poor people in low and middle income countries.

Maybe your blog should put in focus the fact that once a country gets to be part of the MIC club — they receive less “aid” and that the assumption is that through taxes and big business the governments will be able to tap into billions of dollars to fix their cities built on crumbling infrastructures and growing social deficit.

The problem isn’t access to financing..and it’s not that complex after all. Common senses, collective actions, measuring for outcomes — nothing has really changed, increasing “stakeholders” in development or aid delivery without any plans just help in fostering fragmentation and hyper-individual solutions to what could be opportunities.

Saludos…from Colombia