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	<description>Practical Answers to Poverty</description>
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		<title>Home sweet home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Cartridge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well not quite home yet – but back in Dhaka. It’s funny how a city which last week felt so strange, poverty stricken and otherworldly, now feels quite familiar and prosperous.
Of course all these things are relative, but somehow it feels like the people I have met in recent days in rural areas, with no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working again after 30 days</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/bangladesh/working-again-after-30-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Cartridge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cluster village]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embankment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the people I met yesterday – Shahana is hoping that the good days are coming again. After thirty days without work, her husband, a casual farm worker, had gone to work that morning. For his efforts he will be paid 80tka which they can spend on food, or paying off the tab they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New technology spreading appropriate technology</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/bangladesh/new-technology-spreading-appropriate-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Cartridge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technical information]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Technological advancement is not always a good thing. It often excludes the poorest people. But yesterday I found a really innovative use of new technology. As I have mentioned before, at Practical Action we like to share our knowledge with people who can gain benefit from it. One of the main ways that we do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In another place</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/bangladesh/in-another-place/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/bangladesh/in-another-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Cartridge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In another part of the world, the place I have been today could be described as paradise. The sandy lanes are lined by bamboo and banana palms. There is no traffic and the birds sing in the trees. The water of the lagoon laps against the embankment just below you. Sunshine and high temperatures virtually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise lost?</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/zimbabwe/paradise-lost/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/zimbabwe/paradise-lost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laughter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Read this blog in chronological order (oldest first) »
My last night in Zimbabwe – what from the visit will stick in my mind?


My surprise at Harare and how different it was from my expectations – in many ways it is very beautiful
Kids jumping in front of my camera whenever I went to take a photo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching the extreme poor</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/bangladesh/reaching-the-extreme-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Cartridge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pumpkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rangpur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[river erosion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sandbars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shiree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vulnerable]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Made it to Rangpur! It’s only about 250km north of Dhaka, but it’s a full day’s drive. The roads are pretty good, all tarmac, but the further north you come the more rickshaws, bicycles, carts, overladen buses and other slow vehicles you come across and so inevitably you make slow progress. I was here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small is not always beautiful</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/bangladesh/small-is-not-always-beautiful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Cartridge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scaling-up]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve spent the day training Practical Action Bangladesh’s senior staff in communications planning. Which begs the question why? These people have their noses against the grindstone, spending every day working with people in desperate need. Why do they need training in marketing and communications? Aren’t there enough spin doctors in the world?
The short answer is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High heeled shoes &#8211; their role in development</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/zimbabwe/high-heeled-shoes-their-role-in-development/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/zimbabwe/high-heeled-shoes-their-role-in-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connectivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human needs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozambique]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[




I’ve discovered a major problem with micro-hydro sites – they are nearly all on very steep hills. As I am a big woman with bad ankles this is not a good combination. It got even worse today when it rained and the site involved near vertical, slippy slopes of red mud. I thought of my old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clunk, click? Don&#8217;t bother!</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/bangladesh/clunk-click-dont-bother/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/bangladesh/clunk-click-dont-bother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Cartridge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I made it! I have been to Dhaka once before, a decade ago. One of my most vivid memories from then, was repeated today with the absolute sea of faces pressed up against the outer windows of the arrivals area at the airport. It is a stark reminder of the density of Bangladesh’s population. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joy in Zimbabwe</title>
		<link>http://practicalaction.org/blog/zimbabwe/joy-in-zimbabwe/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalaction.org/blog/zimbabwe/joy-in-zimbabwe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Field reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydro]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalaction.org/blog/?p=433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night for the first time in my life I went to bed by candlelight. The electricity supply was down and the generator failed at the guest house where we were staying. I have been to bed by torchlight many times, but as a one-off experience candlelight was much more atmospheric. 
Candlelight was an appropriate introduction [...]]]></description>
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