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SUBMIT LOW BANDWIDTH HIGH BANDWIDTH Quick Links Download the ADF annual report .pdf ADF and AGOA ADF FAQ.pdf ADF e-news, Aug 05 ADF e-news, May 05 ADF Approach, Jan 05 ADF e-news, Dec 04 ADF e-news, Oct 04 ADF e-news, Aug 04 ADF e-news, Jul 04 ADF e-news, May 04 A school for development in bady How One Community's Experiment with Participatory Development Helped Shape a National Program for Rural Capacity Building Sociologists and discussion facilitators affiliated with ADF conduct discussion forums with separate groups of men and women in 1997, the pilot year of Guinea's Village Support Program. A New Approach to Rural Development in Guinea In the mid 1990s, the Government of Guinea approached the World Bank with a request for assistance in developing a new national program for rural development. Although 70 percent of Guinea’s population lived in rural areas, most of the country’s economic growth remained concentrated around the city of Conakry, and residents of thousands of outlying villages were living day-to-day without basic access to education, health care, clean water and other essential social and economic infrastructure. Guinea had taken steps to address this imbalance by launching a rural road rehabilitation project. The initiative had paid thousands of rural residents cash wages for manual labor on local road improvements, but it had produced very disappointing results. Rural communities had played virtually no part in project planning and had expressed different priorities for local development. As a result, when funding for road improvements stopped, local efforts to maintain the roads ceased as well. West Africa’s rainiest climate quickly reclaimed much of what had been done. Based on this experience, Guinean officials recognized the need for a new approach to rural capacity building - a strategy capable of mobilizing sustained local investment in projects that directly addressed the real and immediate needs of rural communities. A group of Bady women meets in 1997 to rank their priorities for social infrastructure development. The Village Support Program (PACV) The World Bank was thus invited to conduct a pilot program to design an effective model for Guinea’s new Village Support Program (PACV in French), and it was charged with: (1) finding new ways to engage local communities as direct participants in development; and (2) producing a framework for a new network of decentralized, self-governing village-level institutions that could be integrated into broader district-level and national-level development planning and implementation. To create an organizational foundation for the PACV, Guinea established 303 Rural Development Communities (CRDs in French) across its four major provinces. The World Bank then invited the African Development Foundation (ADF) and three other international organizations with participatory development experience to help it implement the PACV’s pilot phase and evaluate various strategies for generating demand-driven, community-led development. ADF agreed to finance projects in the CRDs of Bady, Baguinet, and Banguigny. The pilot-year phase of the PACV program was launched in 1997 and designed to provide officials of the Government of Guinea and The World Bank with an opportunity to: (1) compare several different models for implementing participatory development methods and (2) incorporate best practices and lessons learned from each of the four pilot projects into a model for a 12-year nationwide PACV implementation program. Through their partnership with ADF and CAD, Bady residents identified support for primary education as their most important priority. Local communities paid the salary of a teacher out of their own pockets to ensure that the first school year started on time. A School for Development in Bady ADF began its funding activities under the PACV in Bady, a rural area nestled in the valley lowlands of Guinea’s Maritime province that had derived little economic benefit from its close proximity to a major bauxite processing center in the city of Fria. The Foundation financed a group of local Guinean development experts to act as the implementing team in Bady. This group began its work by organizing general village assemblies across the CRD. They invited every segment of the community to take an active role in open conversations about the PACV and discuss ways that local villages could take part in the development process. These meetings ultimately led to the formation of village-level discussion groups that were divided up according to age, gender, and other social categories. The groups agreed to debate and prioritize their most pressing development needs and then send representatives to general village assemblies that would openly debate the recommendations of the smaller groups and determine an equitable set of community development priorities. The general village assemblies then elected delegations of representatives – usually two men and two women - to present their village’s development agenda to a district-wide meeting of village representatives from the CRD of Bady. Each of the four field operators participating in the PACV pilot program followed a different project-implementation methodology. Some placed little emphasis on community engagement and quickly implemented projects that expatriate development experts had recommended based on consultations with local community leaders. Other field operators took more time to engage local communities in participatory development exercises but then assumed all of the details related to project implementation and construction. Because it focused time and effort on creating broad-based decision-making forums, the ADF-financed project in Bady took time to get moving – indeed, much more time than either the Foundation or the World Bank expected. And as the pilot phase of the PACV program reached its first review period, the Bady project was clearly lagging behind the other three pilot projects in measurable results. While the others were reporting significant progress toward implementation, Bady residents were still negotiating with one another over details on how they would invest the US $100,000 that had been allotted to the CRD for the first year of the five-year project. The approach of the Guinean development experts who implemented the Bady project stood out from the others by virtue of its focus on ensuring direct community control of the project from start to finish. They recognized that Bady’s residents were the primary stakeholders in their own development and worked to integrate them into every facet of decision-making. At one end, the ADF-financed implementing team worked with local communities to develop socially representative planning committees that could effectively debate and prioritize local development needs. And at the other end, the team trained local residents in all the essentials of project management and financial management so that they could directly control the bidding, selection and payment of contractors; organize local materials and labor to reduce project costs; provide on-the-ground oversight of construction activities; and identify successes and failures along the way. This comprehensive approach to local capacity building necessarily took time, and the slow pace of implementation in Bady began to raise concerns among the World Bank’s program managers. Dick Day, ADF’s Coordinator of Program Operations, recalls that “there was a sense of frustration that the ADF team was taking too much time in getting its pilot going. Bank officials wanted to see for themselves whether real progress was being made. But what they heard and saw at their meetings in Bady definitely changed their minds.” World Bank officials, accompanied by a local government representative, inspected the work site where the construction of Bady’s first PACV project – a single-story primary school equipped with three classrooms and an outdoor lavatory system – had just started. They were visibly impressed with the quality of the construction and even more impressed that local residents were pitching in to contribute sand, stone and labor. The World Bank visitors were surprised, however, when they learned that ADF had placed a local residents’ committee in charge of controlling and disbursing all payments to the builder. This information raised questions of accountability and the potential for malfeasance. Yet concerns over the issue were quickly put to rest when local committee members produced a financial ledger and offered a detailed cost itemization of the building contract. Each purchase on a long list of acquisitions was accompanied by a receipt. Moreover, the committee had developed a rigorous system for monitoring the builder’s use of concrete. Committee members had stored all of the concrete for the school in a locked shed and were dispensing it to the contractor in carefully portioned daily allotments. Every evening they asked the contractor to return the bags he had emptied so that they could keep a running inventory of his usage. These details left a notable impression with World Bank officials, as did the dynamics of a mid-day discussion that Bank officials held with local CRD committee members, ADF-Washington staff, and a local member of Guinea’s parliament. As World Bank staff began asking specific questions about the Bady project, the member of parliament began answering on behalf of his constituents. He praised ADF for the work it was doing in Bady and thanked the Foundation for building a new school and health clinic. After a few minutes of silence, a representative of the village committee politely interrupted the discussion to offer some important clarifications. He noted that his village was indeed grateful for ADF’s support in financing the project. But he made clear that his community - not ADF - was implementing the project and achieving its goals. His community was building the school and the clinic. His community was contributing time and labor to the project. He also noted that local families had pooled their savings to hire a temporary teacher so that their children would not have to wait for a new school year for the government to assign instructors. As Dick Day remembers, “It was a moment that helped convince the Government of Guinea and the World Bank that something really special was happening in Bady. It brought to life the power of ADF’s unique participatory development methods. When the committee members spoke up, they spoke with commitment, knowledge and authority about every last detail of the project. They made it clear that this was their project. And they were proud of what they had achieved.” A New Model for Participatory Development The meeting helped transform the Bady pilot project into a development model worth replicating, and the seven-part participatory development methodology that ADF's Guinea team had created in close partnership with the people of Bady soon became an integral feature of the PACV program across Guinea and a guide for similar World Bank-funded development initiatives in Niger and Senegal. The model that the ADF team produced through their work with Bady residents emphasizes the central importance of community participation in conceiving, designing, implementing, and evaluating local investments in rural development. The ultimate goal of the model is to provide local communities with the knowledge and skills they need to manage their own development. The ADF Approach, January 2005: Focus on Guinea Introduction The ADF Approach in Guinea GO TO ARTICLE >> ADF's Approach to Participatory Development in Guinea What They Are Saying About ADF's Guinea Program GO TO ARTICLE >> A Grounded Approach to Rural Capacity Building GO TO ARTICLE >> A School for Development in Bady GO TO ARTICLE >> Seven Steps for Generating Effective Participatory Development GO TO ARTICLE >> A Bridge to Kédougou GO TO ARTICLE >> A Healthy Approach to Development GO TO ARTICLE >> ADF's Investment in Micro- and Small-Enterprise Development Helping Guinea's Small Entrepreneurs Invest in the Future GO TO ARTICLE >> The Mechanics of Small Business Development GO TO ARTICLE >> A Better Future Looms for Rural Weavers GO TO ARTICLE >> New Ground for Growth GO TO ARTICLE >> Profile: About CAD, ADF's Guinea Partner Organization A Partner for Development in Guinea: CAD GO TO ARTICLE >> Facts on Guinea Facts on Guinea GO TO ARTICLE >> ©2005 African Development Foundation 1400 I Street NW, 10th Floor | Washington. 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FDA Clears Skin Lotion for Military to Protect Against Chemical Burns FDA Home | Search FDA Site | A-Z Index | Contact FDA FDA News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE P03-24 March 28, 2003 Media Inquiries: 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Clears Skin Lotion for Military to Protect Against Chemical Burns The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for use by the U.S. military a liquid decontamination lotion intended to remove or neutralize chemical warfare agents and T-2 fungal toxin from the skin. The lotion, called Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion (RSDL), must be applied to exposed skin as soon as possible after exposure to a chemical agent. The lotion is impregnated in a sponge pad packaged as a single unit in a heat-sealed foil pouch. When exposed to chemical warfare agents, the user wipes the exposed skin with the lotion. The lotion removes the agents or the T-2 toxin and also reacts with the chemical agents, rapidly neutralizing them so they are non-toxic. "If used in time, this lotion can help prevent the serious burns and deaths that results from exposure to chemical warfare agents," said FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D. "FDA worked with the U.S. Army to expedite review of this product to make it available to our men and women in uniform as quickly as possible." FDA cleared the lotion for use based on studies conducted by the U.S. Department of the Army that showed it is safe and effective. The Army tested the product's safety by conducting skin irritation, sensitization and photo irritation studies in more than 300 people. It tested its effectiveness by using it to treat animals that had been exposed to chemical agents. The Canadian military and the U.S. military worked together to develop the scientific data on which FDA based clearance of the product. RSDL is manufactured by O'Dell Engineering Ltd/E-Z-EM Canada Inc., Canada. #### Media Contacts | FDA News Page FDA Home | Search FDA Site | A-Z Index | Contact FDA | Privacy | Accessibility FDA/Website Management Staff Web page created by tg 2003-MAR-28.

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ICE CREAM AND STROKES By Robert Cohen Executive Director A Stroke of Bad LuckFifty years ago, a young medical student performed anautopsy on a 9-year-old girl with golden-blonde hair and aslender athletic body.As the attending physician during her illness (he was asecond-year medical student at the time), Charles Attwoodwas also required to perform a careful dissection of theinternal organs upon his patient's death. A few years ago,he described to me, firsthand, the pain of holding her heartin his hands.What Dr. Attwood found in her coronary artery affected himgreatly, and shaped his future medical career. Bright yellowthickening of the arterial wall indicated heart disease. Herartery was clogged with atherosclerotic placquing fromcholesterol.On Wednesday morning, my dearest friend suffered a stroke. Ispent part of the day with him in the emergency room atEnglewood Hospital in New Jersey while a CAT scan and othertests were performed.The Tuesday night before his stroke, he ate the "steak-special" at Charlie Brown's Restaurant. This was the 24-ounce New York cut that came from a cow and was finelymarbled with delicious saturated animal fat. The meal was sogood, that he splurged a bit and had cheesecake for dessert.When indigestion and reflux threatened to rob him of a goodnight's sleep, he took that one reliable medicine whichalways works to buffer the acid in his stomach, vanilla icecream.During dinner, his stomach immediately went to workdigesting that steak. After dinner, the cheesecakeneutralized the acid in his stomach, preventing that organfrom performing the task it was designed to do. During hispained act of indigestion, the vanilla ice cream neutralizedthe stomach acid once more, and the contents of his stomachsac emptied into his large intestine where the remainingfood containing three extra-large doses of saturated fatwere absorbed into his bloodstream.I have heard Caldwell Esselstyn, a cardiologist at America'spremiere heart hospital, the Cleveland Clinic, describe apint of blood taken from a man who had previously ingested asimilar saturated-fat lunch. An hour after the blood wasdrawn from the man's vein, a thick coating of fat had risento the top of that pint, and had to be skimmed before thedonor's life fluid could be infused into a recipient. Muchlike fatty cream rises to the top of a container of milk(before homogenization), so too did the saturated animal fatfrom the foods he ate coagulate into the arteries and brainof my friend, the man who suffered his stroke.He is a warrior, this friend. He lives by that three-prongedsword otherwise known as a fork. Live by the sword, die bythat sword. The stroke subtracted from the efficiency ofmany of those normal daily functions that we take forgranted. His speech is now slurred. His vision is impaired.His gait is not as lively today as it was on Monday. Thedoctors do expect a full recovery. The stroke was a signalfrom a body under siege. A body fashioned by the mostintelligent of forces, designed to send a series of signals,first subtle and then powerful, when things go wrong.Indigestion, discomfort, strokes, heart attacks. Somesignals are soft, and some are like the crashing of cymbalsat the conclusion of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Each oflife's warning signs are designed to alert the mind of thebody to alter an inefficient or improper behavior.We as a society eat meat and dairy products because theytaste so good. Because they are so-called comfort foods.Because the saturated animal fat creates wonderful tastesensations upon our taste buds. Two out of three of us whoeat such food as our body's fuel will die of acardiovascular event such as a stroke or heart attack.It is never too late to reverse heart disease. Day onebegins with a recognition of gastronomy's cruelest joke.That which tastes the best, pizza, barbecued ribs, icecream, hamburgers, does the most damage. The choice is toeither live a life free of heart disease, and not spend tento twenty years dying like the average American does, orgive up those most delicious hard-to-digest foods, and livea longer, healthier, and more active, pain-free life inwhich the body and mind remain true to the initial designplan.My friend will improve. He may or may not return to thatsame diet which causes strokes to occur. The quality-of-lifedecision for him to continue eating delicious fat-filledfoods may result in shortening his life. Some people saythat a meal consisting of steak with ice cream for dessertis "to die for." In the end, it is up to him to come toterms with his future. ---------------------------ICE CREAM AND STROKESThe dairy industry recently featured a milk mustache ad withthe Three Stooges.The advertisement posed Curly with a milk mustache, justafter he had been hit over the head with a crowbar--one ofthe many slapstick routines used frequently by the ThreeStooges.CURLY: Wait a minute. You know I'm temperamental! MOE: Yeah,95% temper, 5% mental.What better role model could dairymen have chosen torepresent them than an out of shape, obese drunk withcardiovascular disease?In the early 1940's, Curly's health began to deteriorate.His eating habits, combined with his constant drinking andsmoking, caused him to gain enormous amounts of weight, andhe developed high blood pressure.On January 23, 1945, Curly was diagnosed as having extremehypertension, a retinal hemorrhage, and obesity. He remainedat the hospital for tests and treatment and was dischargednearly three weeks later.On May 6, 1946, during the shooting of a movie, Curlysuffered a stroke and was rushed to the hospital where hewas placed on a strict vegetarian diet.After Curly left the hospital, he went back to his old waysand suffered several more strokes. In 1949, Curly's healthtook a severe turn for the worse. The latest stroke left himpartially paralyzed and confined to a wheel chair.This time, Curly's doctors placed him on a diet of boiledrice and raw fruits and vegetables. This diet successfullylowered his weight and blood pressure.On January 18, 1952, Curly died at the very young age of 48.His brothers outlived him by many years. Moe died at the ageof 73 and Larry died at the age of 78.Just about the same time that Curly suffered his firststroke, the nation of Japan got their first dairy cows.In Japan, every year since 1946, tens-of thousands ofpersons have been interviewed and their diets carefullyanalyzed. 21,707 persons from 6,093 households were includedin the sampling. The results of the study were published inPreventive Medicine (Yasuo Kagawa, Department ofBiochemistry, Jichi Medical School, Japan, 7, 205-217,1978).According to this study, the per-capita yearly dietaryintake of dairy products in 1950 was only 5.5 pounds.Twenty-five years later the average Japanese ate 117.4pounds of milk and dairy products.While milk and dairy consumption increased from 1950 to1975, cerebral vascular disease (strokes) increased by afactor of 38 percent.Dr. Benjamin Spock wrote about a related medical crisis thatchanged his life. Spock was America's best knownpediatrician, and sold 85 million copies of his book, ChildCare. Spock wrote:"Ever since I wrote my first edition of Baby and Child Carein 1946, I have always put the emphasis on the need foreating lots of vegetables, fruits, and whole grain cereals.But due to the fact that dairy products and meats have beenconsidered ideal foods for so long, I was hesitant to talkabout their hidden disadvantages. In fact, I was notentirely convinced, until recently, that all parents shouldbe alerted, and in some cases made to feel guilty, when theycontinue to give these foods to their children. What changedmy mind was an episode in my own medical history.In 1988, I fainted crossing the lobby of a hotel andspattered the marble floor with blood. After a week'shospitalization it was concluded that my condition waspartly due to the irregular rhythm of my heart (atrialfibrillation), a familial condition I'd had for severalyears. Also, I had a supposed narrowing of arteries in mybrain from arteriosclerosis, which had stopped or interferedwith the heart beat enough to allow blood to clot in myheart. A piece of the clot presumably broke off and pluggedan artery of my brain long enough to cause the faint. Notlong afterward, I had a brief episode of speaking gibberishinstead of English. I was put on a digitalis medication toslow and steady the heart beat and given a pacemaker tosubstitute for my heart if it decided to stop again. Sincemy mother and two sisters died of strokes, that was enoughto remind me that I am mortal like all humans, a fact that Ihad ignored until then.In recent years, we've discovered that a high-fat diet,which means eating relatively large amounts of meat, dairyproducts, and fried foods, is the main cause ofarteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, stroke, certainforms of cancer and obesity. Experts in these diseasesrealize that the true cause is the excessively high animalfat content of the average American diet including dairyproducts."We should all learn from Dr. Spock's wisdom. My finalmessage: Get well soon, Dad. I am happy to see containers ofsoy-based ice cream and sorbets in your freezer instead ofthat "other stuff." Robert Cohen author of: MILK A-Z (201-871-5871) Executive Director ( notmilkman@notmilk.com ) Dairy Education Board http://www.notmilk.com Do you know of a friend or family member with one or more of these milk-related problems? Do them a huge favor and forward the URL or this entire file to them. Do you know of someone who should read these newsletters? If so, have them send an empty Email to notmilk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and they will receive it (automatically)!