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Planners' experiences: "Letter from ...

These 'Letters From IDN members' retell vividly their personal experience of working in international development and planning.

Letter from 1960

Arthur Bryant recalls his first major overseas assignment in East Pakistan (as it was then called - now Bangladesh)

Letter from Accra

Mike Smoughton relives his experiences in Ghana

Letter from Bahir DarPlanning enforcement in Ethiopia

Steve Clarke's account of two years with VSO in a planning department in Amhara.

Image: Planning enforcement in Ethiopia.

 

Postcards from Zambia

Ros Ward’s slides of her VSO placement in Choma, Zambia where she worked to increase participation in planning.

Letter from my deckchair

UNCDF Colleagues in Eritrea

 

Ron McGill (second from left, pictured with UN Capital Development Fund colleagues in Eritrea) allows himself some quiet reflections on a working life in planning around the world