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...central rail station for the transiting working class. It was the highest death toll for a single site during the three days of chaos. Many of the dead there were laborers. "For whom is the [Taj Mahal hotel] iconic?" asks Gulan Kripalani, the executive director of the Mumbai-based NGO, Citizens For Peace. "My maid has lived in Mumbai all her life and she has never seen...
...former Finance Minister] Michael Cullen has given a number of speeches in which he's said it's only the redemptive power of the state that can provide successful outcomes. Well, quite simply, my government wouldn't support that. We do believe in the engagement of the private and NGO sectors and their ability to provide solutions to problems...
...government] is determined to silence him before the 2010 elections,” a Burundi NGO representative, who wished to remained anonymous because of the sensitivity of the situation, wrote in an e-mail. “There is no evidence to justify the charges against Alexis,” the NGO representative said...
...them go and do it," Butler says. Telecom giant Vodafone, which recently bought Ghana Telecom, is using CforC to help it find useful projects in Ghana to get involved in. CforC's team includes an African anthropologist, an academic expert on aid flow in Ghana and a former NGO executive. Says Vodafone chairman John Bond enthusiastically: "CforC works in some extremely difficult parts of the world, and they know what's needed. They're an enormously talented team." There may be a comfort factor too in that CforC is a business for which profit isn't a dirty word...
...team concept also extends to the field. CforC, which is building a core staff of 20, can tap into a network of experts it has assembled, who number 30 so far and range from ex-officers and diplomats to former business executives and NGO operatives. For each project, it convenes small teams of staff and associates, mixing and matching skill sets to meet the client's needs. For example, Slim says, a team may have "a human-rights person, an environmentalist and a private-equity expert--now that's pretty wacky...