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Wednesday, November 3, 2010global development

All the latest on our three years in Katine

This week sees the end to the Guardian's full-time media coverage of its three-year Katine project . Since October 2007, the Guardian has been tracking a development programme in Katine sub-county in north-east Uganda being implemented by the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref), with funding from Guardian readers and Barclays. We've sought to explain how the money was spent, how development works (the successes and the failures) and the impact of the project on the sub-county's 29,000 inhabitants. We explain how lives have changed in our story of Katine special report, and we've also uploaded a more in-depth report on the project by Dr Ben Jones, an anthropologist from the University of East Anglia. Watch our video to find out how the project has improved the life chances of Angela and her young son, and come along to the Guardian's offices in London's King's Cross to view an exhibition of artwork by some of Katine's young people . The exhibition will be on display in our office foyer until 20 January 2011. Elsewhere on the site Simon Rogers pulled out some figures from Transparency International's latest Corruption Index. Madeleine Bunting continued her reports from Mali with a look at the impact of climate change on rural communities, and how people in one small town are attempting to prevent a sand dune encroaching on their community. The backlash against the UK government's decision to ring-fence the aid budget has begun. Claire Melamed, from the Overseas Development Institute, explained why aid is still vital for millions of people . And Jonathan Glennie outlined why we need a new set of millennium development goals that apply to all countries, after 2015. Coming up on the site Jonathan Glennie will be blogging on the 20th anniversary edition of the UN's human development report, published tomorrow, and he'll also be explaining why the UK still gives aid to India. We'll be reporting from the Tarawa climate change conference in Kiribati next week. We've selected a team of bloggers from some of the invited countries to tell us how changing weather patterns are affecting their countries and what outcomes they wish to see from the conference. Multimedia In the second of our monthly podcasts , Felicity Lawrence talks to Oxfam GB's head of research, Duncan Green about the issue of food security amid fears the world is heading for another food crisis. We also hear from Jayati Ghosh, leading professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, in India; Raj Patel, author or The Value of Nothing and a fellow at the Institute for Food and Development Policy; and Olivier de Schutter, the UN's special rapporteur on the right to food. What you said: best comments from our readers In Madeleine Bunting's blog on Mali's challenge to find funding for small projects to tackle climate change , Joliba Trust writes: "In the 20 years I have been visiting this area, soils have become more and more impoverished, so that a large proportion of the population are now at risk of losing their harvests, and food crises are a constant threat." In Claire Melamed's blog on the ring-fencing of the UK's aid budget , howmatters writes: "We can always talk about more money, but unfortunately, until the aid delivery system changes to meet their needs, local groups will be competing for often scarce and ineffective resources." Highlights from the blogosophere Global Voices continued to highlight land rights issues in China , mapping forced evictions and land grab protests in Bangladesh, following riots in China earlier in the month. Oxfam's Duncan Green discussed what "the end of North-South means for development" – the convergence of economies, social indicators and ideas. And Lawrence Haddad reports on development and disability and the "staggering" fact that one in five of the poor is affected by disability.

Source: The Guardian ↗

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