Comments on: A Mali Travelogue, Part 5: The Women’s Bank http://prbblog.org/index.php/2011/02/01/mali-travelogue-part-5-womens-bank/ The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment Sat, 18 May 2013 19:32:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: karin Ringheim http://prbblog.org/index.php/2011/02/01/mali-travelogue-part-5-womens-bank/comment-page-1/#comment-5464 karin Ringheim Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:53:42 +0000 http://prbblog.org/?p=456#comment-5464 Another great travelogue! A telling sentence in your travelogue is how you conducted your own work: "I proposed to Sefa to be my local representative and start with a survey of the skills and knowledge the women themselves wanted to acquire as a priority." If only all development efforts began with an assessment of what the people themselves wanted to learn and know! Another great travelogue! A telling sentence in your travelogue is how you conducted your own work:

“I proposed to Sefa to be my local representative and start with a survey of the skills and knowledge the women themselves wanted to acquire as a priority.” If only all development efforts began with an assessment of what the people themselves wanted to learn and know!

]]> By: Patricia Thomas http://prbblog.org/index.php/2011/02/01/mali-travelogue-part-5-womens-bank/comment-page-1/#comment-5443 Patricia Thomas Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:34:47 +0000 http://prbblog.org/?p=456#comment-5443 SO interesting to be able to read the interesting things that Pietronella has found out going back to the same places where she worked many years before....I'm afraid that many of the real impacts that have been achieved in development interventions are missed because there is either no monitoring and evaluation done many years after the actions have taken place....or if they are...they miss telling the stories of transformation that has taken place in real people's lives. This type of qualitative assessment is so important! SO interesting to be able to read the interesting things that Pietronella has found out going back to the same places where she worked many years before….I’m afraid that many of the real impacts that have been achieved in development interventions are missed because there is either no monitoring and evaluation done many years after the actions have taken place….or if they are…they miss telling the stories of transformation that has taken place in real people’s lives. This type of qualitative assessment is so important!

]]> By: Tidiane Diop http://prbblog.org/index.php/2011/02/01/mali-travelogue-part-5-womens-bank/comment-page-1/#comment-5413 Tidiane Diop Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:59:31 +0000 http://prbblog.org/?p=456#comment-5413 Great job to Pietronella ...with all that experience, I personnally believe that you write a book to share your operational field as well office experience which would serve as a reference for lessons and experience learned in the development work.....You go Lady...Congrats once again ! Great job to Pietronella …with all that experience, I personnally believe that you write a book to share your operational field as well office experience which would serve as a reference for lessons and experience learned in the development work…..You go Lady…Congrats once again !

]]> By: dulce castleton http://prbblog.org/index.php/2011/02/01/mali-travelogue-part-5-womens-bank/comment-page-1/#comment-5391 dulce castleton Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:46:12 +0000 http://prbblog.org/?p=456#comment-5391 It's with great pleasure to read each of Dr's van den Oever's Mali Travelogue. I would like to thanks PRB for the initiative. Dr. van den Oever puts her hert into her words, gives us the readers a very clear picture of the Malian present situation and very significant, confirms that "development" does not require millions of dollars. Trust and corrage to do the work are the main requirements. The Travelogue clear points out that treatment of people as colleagues, as collaborators as Dr van den Oever reported what she did when she first arrived in Mali. I want to congratulate Dr. van den Oever for her courage to return to her "country" and register progress. Kind eyes,googd heart, hard work, some funds and not fancy technology- foster development. It’s with great pleasure to read each of Dr’s van den Oever’s Mali Travelogue. I would like to thanks PRB for the initiative.
Dr. van den Oever puts her hert into her words, gives us the readers a very clear picture of the Malian present situation and very significant, confirms that “development” does not require millions of dollars. Trust and corrage to do the work are the main requirements. The Travelogue clear points out that treatment of people as colleagues, as collaborators as Dr van den Oever reported what she did when she first arrived in Mali. I want to congratulate Dr. van den Oever for her courage to return to her “country” and register progress. Kind eyes,googd heart, hard work, some funds and not fancy technology- foster development.

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