gilly challinorJOA monitoring — safe housing and financial inclusion in NepalI’ve just returned from my first grant monitoring trip in Nepal. I’d heard only good things about Nepal but nothing could prepare me for…Sep 23, 2022Sep 23, 2022
gilly challinorFiery womenInternational Women’s Day slipped by me last week in the midst of JOA’s rapid response to the events unfolding in Ukraine. But what has…Mar 15, 20221Mar 15, 20221
gilly challinorHow VSLAs are helping with Financial InclusionI’m feeling pretty speechless and emotional after a week in Sierra Leone. We have seen and done so much – including assessing a potential…Feb 27, 2022Feb 27, 2022
gilly challinorMatt’s animal factsWe left Freetown on Sunday to drive to Kenema – a modest 4.5 hours on decent roads, driving through many beautiful vibrant villages and…Feb 22, 20221Feb 22, 20221
gilly challinorA very long dayI have time on my hands so may as well write about my day. I dodged storm Eunice by coming to London a day early. Best decision I ever…Feb 19, 2022Feb 19, 2022
gilly challinorSierra Leone and conservation livelihoodsI’m back at Heathrow after two week’s in Jersey catching up on office life and preparing for this trip to Sierra leone. This time around we…Feb 19, 2022Feb 19, 2022
gilly challinorAttempting to understand market systemsThe past two weeks I’ve sat through a number of proposal assessments listening to experienced people from multiple NGO's talking about…Feb 3, 2022Feb 3, 2022
gilly challinorNo elephants in this roomIn Zambia and Rwanda everyone wants to talk about climate change. The subject of climate change has come up in every meeting I’ve been in…Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022
gilly challinorCows meetings and 2 PCR testsOur meetings yesterday started at 8am at the Zambian Ministry to discuss a dairy project in Zambia. Dairy is one of our thematic focus…Jan 29, 2022Jan 29, 2022
gilly challinorWelcome to ZambiaI made it to Lusaka, Zambia after a gruelling 32 hours of travel. After a magical night’s sleep, today we met with two organisations that…Jan 26, 2022Jan 26, 2022
