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From knowledge to ‘know how’: Lessons from Agulhas’ training partnerships

Roxanne Ward — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:06:56 +0000

Agulhas has been a long-term learning partner to UK government departments, arm’s-length bodies, and cross-Whitehall funds. Over the past five years, we’ve trained more than 1,000 staff in international and complex programme management, and in that time, we’ve watched what we teach shift constantly, as guidance, policy and priorities are consistently rearranged in a turbulent world.

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The architecture we have, the architecture we need – Nigel Thornton

Nigel Thornton — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:23:43 +0000

In the hills of Ituri, in the conflict-scarred northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ebola is once again killing people, and this time the system built to stop it is visibly failing. The outbreak confirmed in mid-May 2026 is the DRC’s seventeenth since 1976, but it is the first of the post-USAID era. By early June, the official count stood at well over 500 confirmed cases and…

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Beyond aid: Evaluating ‘All the Levers’ Development Partnerships

Roxanne Ward — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:17:00 +0000

Human-centred artificial intelligence: Agulhas’ new AI policy

Roxanne Ward — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:35:04 +0000

The road beyond Seville, and aid – Nigel Thornton and Liz Turner

Liz Turner — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:56:00 +0000

Early in 2025 the buttresses holding up the multinational system were set on fire by the US administration. Many parts of the old structure rapidly crumbled as a result.[1] In appropriately record-breaking temperatures the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) is in part proposing how a new approach might replace the old. In Seville, Carsten Staur…

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The necessary conversation: A new architecture for Global Health – Nigel Thornton

Agulhas — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:58:34 +0000

This week I happened to be staying in Geneva on the site where the founders of the Red Cross Movement had met in a smoke-filled room in 1863. 162 years on, the city is now home to 30,000 people working in international organisations and NGOs, all of which was seeded by that one meeting. Alas, for many of those working in the many global health initiatives and other organisations (including the…

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Beyond Paris, Through Lusaka: A Turning Point for Global Health and Aid – Nigel Thornton

Agulhas — Fri, 23 May 2025 09:40:10 +0000

In 2005, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness promised a new deal between donors and countries—anchored in ownership, alignment, harmonisation, results, and mutual accountability. Much of the first decade of Agulhas’s work focussed on evaluating the implementation of the Paris agenda. Its principles underpinned many of the concepts the UK’s Independent Commission for Aid Impact has applied…

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Inclusive peace in a new world: how can MEL evolve to enable lasting change? – Agulhas at gLocal evaluation week 2025

Agulhas — Tue, 13 May 2025 10:30:13 +0000

On 4th June, Agulhas will host an online learning event on ‘Inclusive peace in a new world: how can monitoring, evaluation and learning evolve to enable lasting change?’ Register for ‘Inclusive peace in a new world: how can MEL evolve to enable lasting change?’ and Register for all Glocal evaluation week events This year’s Glocal 2025 theme is “Evaluation for a Better Future…

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Telling the bigger story about UK aid – Marcus Cox

Agulhas — Fri, 09 May 2025 09:51:51 +0000

The UK government’s new Evaluation Registry has attracted attention from the development sector, who are naturally concerned that evaluation will be an early casualty of a reduced aid budget. The Registry lists 204 evaluations commissioned by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and its predecessor, the Department for International Development (DFID). CGD’s Lee Crawford…

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The place beyond aid – Marcus Cox

Agulhas — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:02:55 +0000

Amid the blitzkrieg of decisions from Washington, there is constant debate as to whether there is some grand strategy behind it all, or whether it is no more than it appears – a series of disjointed, chaotic acts. I lean towards the latter view. Destructive acts can have cascading effects that make them appear more farsighted than they are. But I have to acknowledge that, if you were looking for a…

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