Author: Lahai Conteh, Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator At OneVillage Partners our Monitoring and Evaluation strategy is participatory and inclusive. This means that program participants are involved in deciding the metrics by which we measure our programs, as well as the collection of the data Read More

Authors: Foday Sessay and the NOW team This year has already seen so many women pushing for progress. Across multiple industries, walks of life, communities and cultures, women are making their voices heard. The struggle for gender equity exists in all cultures in varying forms; rural Sierra Read More

By Linda Svitak and David Feroe, 2017 Travelers In November, we traveled with OneVillage Partners to Sierra Leone, exploring Yandohun and the neighboring villages.  Through our experiences we formed two strong impressions. First, we affirmed what we had heard many times—from everyone who has Read More

Author: Jill LaLonde, Executive Director As a Development Studies graduate student, I arrived in Entebbe, Uganda, my first trip to Africa.  I spent a day making my way north by bus to Adjumani and Moyo Districts, where I would spend the next six weeks researching public health measures to treat Read More

Author: Chad McCordic, Program Director “Water is a basic need.” Yes, but have you ever wondered why we refer to a need as ‘basic’? The answer depends on who decides what the need is and who determines how to meet that need... When I’m back in Canada and casually asked about what OneVillage Read More

Author: Jessica Turner, Program Associate Admitting something isn’t working as well as you had hoped is challenging for anybody. As an organization, it is particularly difficult. What can you do when an idea that has proven to be so successful in other contexts simply is not being adopted in the Read More

Author: Musa Gangha, Senior Community Projects Coordinator OneVillage Partners continues its partnership with the community of Mamboma as it transitions into  its second cycle of the Community Action Program. At this stage, we begin to see more impact, as communities address their second Read More

Authors: Chad McCordic – Program Director, Brima Lansana – Senior Community Action Coordinator When OneVillage Partners works with community members to develop projects, we use an adaption of Human Centered Design, a methodology that puts the real life, human experience at the core of project Read More