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September 21st, 2010 - 4:07 pm § in Good Practice

Hillary, Stoves Won’t Save the World

Clinton needs to take a more responsible approach to throwing her support behind technological “solutions” such as cooking stoves for the developing world.[...]

Tags: aid workers, Al Gore, Appropedia, Aprovecho Research Center, climate change, community-based organizations, deforestation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, global health, grassroots organizations, Hillary Clinton, improved cook stoves, international aid, international development, MDG Summit, The New Yorker, Uganda, women’s empowerment 13 Comments

September 17th, 2010 - 4:21 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

A New Discipline for Development Practitioners

Organizational development is a discipline that needs to become more central to the practice of the development sector as a whole, not just a small professional enclave. [...]

Tags: ActionAid, aid workers, alternatives, CDRA, civil society organizations, Community Development Resource Association, community-based organizations, complexity, crisis, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, NGOs, organizational development, organizational learning, Oxfam, partnership, power dynamics, social change, social movements, South Africa, sovereignty, The Barefoot Guide, values, VSO 3 Comments

September 13th, 2010 - 6:27 am § in Good Practice

Spotting Community Ownership

Is there genuine community ownership? Are the people served invested in the outcomes of the program? Most importantly, how can we know? ...We start by asking the right questions.[...]

Tags: aid workers, capacity building, community ownership, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, HIV, international aid, international development, NGOs, participation, participation ladder, power dynamics, rights-based programming 13 Comments

September 9th, 2010 - 6:25 am § in Good Practice

Online Communities for International Do-Gooders

A compiled (and growing) list of online communities related to international development and assistance[...]

Tags: aid workers, Boston, community organizing, conflict resolution, foreign aid, foreign assistance, gender mainstreaming, grassroots organizations, human rights, international aid, international development, LinkedIn, M&E, Malawi, MIT, networks, non-governmental organizations, online communities, outcome mapping, peacebuilding, peer-to-peer exchange, relief, research, social change, social entrepreneurship, social media, virtual community, wikis 31 Comments

September 3rd, 2010 - 4:29 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

The Carpenters and the Rude Man

How many times had I been him? Just wanting to get through to the next stage to achieve those ever-elusive results? Demonstrating my own ignorance and intolerance? Wreaking havoc and unleashing anger as a result?[...]

Tags: colonialism, foreign aid, foreign assistance, international aid, international development, liberation, Malawi, peacebuilding, power dynamics, respect, solidarity 2 Comments

September 2nd, 2010 - 1:23 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers

Listening to People on the Receiving End of Aid

Aid recipients “are more concerned about ‘how’ assistance is provided than how much is given.” Initial findings from The Listening Project, a systematic exploration of the insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient end of international assistance efforts.[...]

Tags: academics, accountability, Aceh, Afghanistan, aid workers, alternatives, Angola, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burma, business people, Cambodia, capacity building, civil society, community leaders, community participation, community-based organizations, East Timor, Ecuador, Ethiopia, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, government officials, grassroots organizations, Harvard Hauser Center, health workers, impact, Indonesia, international aid, international development, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, listening, Listening Project, Mali, Mindanao, Myanmar, NGO staff, organizational development, ownership, partnership, power dynamics, religious leaders, respect, solidarity, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, teachers, Thailand, US Gulf Coast, women, youth, Zimbabwe 13 Comments

How Matters

Archive for September, 2010

Hillary, Stoves Won’t Save the World

A New Discipline for Development Practitioners

Spotting Community Ownership

Online Communities for International Do-Gooders

The Carpenters and the Rude Man

Listening to People on the Receiving End of Aid

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