Leaders from four African organizations sat down to give their “real”, though too-often-unheard insights on site visits from the perspective of the ones being visited.[...]
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May 13th, 2012 - 7:00 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers
How to Make People Glad That You Are There: Some Motherly Advice
To celebrate Mother’s Day, I’m sharing a chapter from Ruth Stark’s book, How to Work in Someone Else’s Country, which she wrote for her daughter, Taryn, also an aid professional. [...]
April 16th, 2012 - 6:10 am § in Good Practice
What’s needed to put local champions at the forefront?
What's needed from aid workers, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs and do-gooders to put local champions at the forefront of aid? Jennifer Lentfer of how-matters.org shares her advice.[...]
March 8th, 2012 - 9:33 am § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination
Reaching Girls at the Grassroots – A Sound Investment
In celebration of International Women's Day! Grassroots organizations, as powerful actors that are finding and reaching marginalized girls and unlocking their potential, are reaching a demographic of extremely vulnerable and hard-to-reach girls through homegrown, targeted, and context-specific strat[...]
How to Work in Someone Else’s Country (A Book Review)
To fumble is an inevitable part of working cross-culturally. To be humble is not, thus the need for this book. (A review of Ruth Stark’s, How to Work in Someone Else’s Country.)[...]
