The first delivery on the new HealthyBaby vouchers took place the morning of February 28th (see Melissa’s post).The delivery took place at Angella’s Domicillary in Rubindi trading center. Mother and baby are both doing well. The program was launched in September in Mbarara and then issues ranging from reimbursement rates to database development took longer [...]

A friend recently sent a link to this Berkeley database of GIS shapefiles for roughly 245 countries, islands, and principal administrative areas. Themes include roads, railways, inland water, elevation, population, and administrative areas.  If you’ve ever hunted for hard to find shapefiles, bookmark the site. We have been creating a number of maps like the [...]