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    • Monica Ospina OTrade

    How engineers can support “local content” to help mining companies manage risk

    7 April 2014 | Building Markets
    Monica Ospina is Founder and Director of the social economic development firm OTrade. The World Bank has recognized OTrade’s proprietary Local Community Procurement Programm... More
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    Holy Cow! Aid industry gets hit by 8.5 richter scale quake.

    17 January 2012 | Building Markets
    Well I just about fell off my chair when hit by an email 20 minutes ago. How can an email shove me off a chair? It told me that the biggest aid actor in the world was about ... More
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    An Open Letter to Haiti’s President Martelly

    29 September 2011 | Building Markets
    In Haiti’s and elsewhere, again and again, the international community responds to war, tsunami, and earthquake the same way. Billions are pledged. Less is disbursed. And al... More
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    An Open Letter to Global Soap Project

    21 June 2011 | Building Markets
    Wherein I try a different approach to fight the burgeoning waste of the SWEDOW industry. As my prairie-born grandmother used to say "You gather more flies with honey than vine... More

    What’s wrong with aid?

    28 February 2011 | Building Markets
    Why is aid broken? This animated video that we at Peace Dividend Trust created offers one explanation. Better yet, it offers a solution to make aid and peacekeeping more ef... More
    So cool - the website has its own soundtrack

    Timor Party at Haven

    12 October 2010 | Building Markets
    PDT is hosting its first fundraising party in New York tomorrow night. You're invited!... More
    An Afghan ATM

    Wall Street Journal gets it wrong (UPDATED)

    28 June 2010 | Building Markets
    There is an alarming Wall Street Journal article doing the rounds right now, and I don’t think the numbers add up. It states that $3.6 billion siphoned off of aid projects ... More
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    How deep doth run the question of local procurement?

    14 June 2012 | Building Markets
    Welcome back readers! This week, Building Markets’ inquest will consider the impacts official development assistance (ODA) on local procurement. In the context of internatio... More
    More White Bull and Less Black Gold?

    In beer there is freedom.

    6 December 2011 | Building Markets
    Apparently, Benjamin Franklin once said, "...beer there is freedom..." On a recent trip to South Sudan I was reading an article in a local newspaper and it made me think of B... More
    Buy Local Build Afghanistan

    US government success touted as failure in Afghanistan

    17 August 2011 | Building Markets
    Some amazing good news was wrapped up in what appeared to be some shocking bad news today. Politico, AP, ABC, and others are reporting that a jaw dropping $360m of US govt mon... More
    David and Goliath

    From “Independence”, to “Aid” Activism.

    21 June 2011 | Building Markets
    This story travels from Dili to Monrovia - with stops in Juba, Port-au-Prince, Kinshasa, Freetown and other tough places along the way. When occupied, the Timorese were indepe... More
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    Tax Dodging, Aid, and Afghanistan

    17 January 2011 | Building Markets
    The UN and donors grants ridiculous carte blanche tax breaks to its contractors and sub-contractors. In the case of the UN, the 1946 Convention which allegedly allows this, do... More

    Till Bruckner is (partially) right, but so am I

    20 August 2010 | Building Markets
    Till Bruckner came back to me with a very thoughtful response at AidWatchers. In reading it, I found myself agreeing with much he said. This is because I am not suggesting h... More
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    Bad news – Award-winning Timor Marketplace Project Shutting Down

    3 June 2010 | Building Markets
    We have a cool and innovative economic impact project in Timor Leste, and its about to close. Why? Lack of funding. We have several smaller donors supporting it, including ... More
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    Building Haiti First

    26 January 2012 | Building Markets
    The best news to come out of PDT’s recent survey of Haiti’s construction sector is that international organizations are starting to put “Haiti First.” That means they ... More
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    I do not do this often. “Dear UN: Much Belated Kudos!”

    20 November 2011 | Building Markets
    This doesn't happen often: Edward Rees offers kudos to the UN Mission in South Sudan. ... More

    The Building Blocks of Transparency

    5 July 2011 | Building Markets
    Taylor Steelman learns that aid transparency is essential to measuring (and improving) local procurement in Haiti's construction sector.... More
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    Buying Locally: A Spreading Ethos? UNIFIL, Norway and Xanana.

    18 April 2011 | Building Markets
    Well its moving around, popping up in Lebanon, moving quietly to Norway, the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (known as the C34), and even in speeches given by lea... More
    Speechless, frankly

    Big Day in Seoul (we won)

    12 November 2010 | Building Markets
    PDT was named a People’s Choice winner in the G20 SME Finance Challenge. Our winning idea? Factor Finance for Procurement, which will provide line of credits using soverei... More
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    We told you buying local would work

    5 July 2010 | Building Markets
    About ten years ago, a group of aid workers and UN staff sat around a legendary bar called the Dili Club (it’s gone now, alas) and complained. Our gripes were many, but one... More
    Chairman Mao: Aid visionary

    Chairman Mao knew how to improve aid

    30 May 2010 | Building Markets
    I’ve been recalling the period before I quit my job as a diplomat to launch Peace Dividend Trust. I was a rash thing to do. So, before I leapt, I cautiously tested the wat... More
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