This morning I jumped on the TransJakarta bus N 1 and travelled to Central Jakarta to the modern and cozy office of PulseLab. JonneCatshoek of Elva.org was presenting about digital citizen engagement strategies for making programmes more effective and accountable. Jonne has been working for the… Read More
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On the shore of a Finnish lake and the gap between researchers and policy makers
Finland is a country of lakes. There are 187,888 of them but the exhibition (On the Shore of the Lake Tuusula Artist Community) I visited with my daughter during the holidays at the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki was about one of them: Lake Tuusula.… Read More
Just published – Social capital in Cambodia
I just published this book written in collaboration with Cambodian colleagues at the Learning Institute in Phnom Penh. Here is the title and abstract. Engaging for the Environment. The Contribution of Social Capital to Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Cambodia Development is not a straight… Read More
The self-help tradition in the pagodas of Cambodia
A common feature of community development projects is to set up new self help groups to run community development initiatives. This approach often disregards the existence of groups and associations that have been traditionally active as the story of the pagoda of Botum tells… Read More
Just published – Buddhist Aid
Arnaldo just published a short article on the role of Buddhist pagodas in dealing with poverty in Cambodia in the development magazine Just Change published in New Zealand. Buddhist aid: Pagodas reducing poverty in Cambodia This article tells the story of the Pagoda Association of… Read More