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January 30th, 2012 - 6:00 am § in Guest Bloggers

Capillary Philanthropy: Businesses, local NGOs, and the future of aid

Orietta L’Abbate, CEO of Association Amis des Enfants Australia Inc., shares her proposal for the future of aid, a “one-to-one” support system whereby businesses select a “sister” local NGO to help on a 5-10 year plan.[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, Association Amis des Enfants Australia, Association Amis des Enfants de l’ile de la Gonâve, capillary philanthropy, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, disaster management, disaster prevention, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, international aid, international development, philanthropy, relief and recovery, social enterprise 1 Comment

January 23rd, 2012 - 7:00 am § in Guest Bloggers

Has aid lost its humanity?

“Development work had become more about systems and structures than the actual lived realities of people,” argues Mette Müller, founder of Best Self Experience. Can important concepts like 'empathy', 'understanding' and 'compassion' enter the way we deliver aid?[...]

Tags: accountability, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Best Self Experience, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, compassion, donors, empathy, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, intuitive healing, Kenya, Mette Müller, organizational development, philanthropy, social change, social enterprise, Tanzania 7 Comments

January 17th, 2012 - 11:45 am § in Guest Bloggers

The elephant hasn’t left the room: Racism, power & international aid

“I want to be able to have an open conversation with grantees that allows me to be who I am. That is the only way I know how to use my power and privilege to support others.” A guest post by Sasha Rabsey of The HOW Fund[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, philanthropy, privilege, racism, racism and international aid, racism and philanthropy, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship 9 Comments

December 3rd, 2011 - 12:05 pm § in Guest Bloggers

Transparency. Accountability. Impact.

These buzzwords are everywhere these days, but what do they really mean? Kimberly Lemme, Sr. Manager, Program Finance & Compliance at Water for People, shares how her organization re-defines and approaches these concepts.[...]

Tags: accountability, aid buzzwords, aid effectiveness, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, impact, international aid, international development, Kim Lemme, M&E, Médecins sans Frontières, monitoring, MSF, Ned Breslin, transparency, water and sanitation, Water for People, watsan 3 Comments

November 27th, 2011 - 3:00 pm § in Guest Bloggers

Letting the snark flow

Does snark among aid bloggers go too far? I share this guest post by Orietta L’Abbate, CEO of the Association Amis des Enfants de l’ile de la Gonâve in Haiti, in an attempt to even the score.[...]

Tags: aid bloggers, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Association Amis des Enfants de l’ile de la Gonâve, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, disaster management, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, international aid, international development, local activists, organizational development, relief and recovery, snark 2 Comments

November 17th, 2011 - 12:41 pm § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

Random Nomad

Link to my interview in The Displaced Nation: "RANDOM NOMAD: Jennifer Lentfer, International Aid Consultant, Writer & Blogger"[...]

Tags: aid blogger, aid workers, foreign aid, international aid, international consultant, international development, Jennifer Lentfer, The Displaced Nation, voluntourism, Zimbabwe No Comments

November 3rd, 2011 - 9:04 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers

Local Realities, Local Adaptation

Tanya Cothran, Executive Administrator at Spirit in Action, writes about how an idea, some information sharing, and a little bit of money can go a long way at the local level when people are behind an initiative.[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, IGAs, income-generating activities, international aid, international development, Malawi, organizational development, site visits, small grants, Spirit in Action, Tanya Cothran, TrickleUp, village savings and loans, VSL 8 Comments

October 19th, 2011 - 8:20 pm § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers

How would you measure the strength of a partnership?

Ruiari Nolan of Peace Direct offers the following guest post, sharing their experience of trying to determine what is important in relationships with grassroots organisations, and how they’re trying to measure performance in this area. [...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid partnerships, aid relationships, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, Insight on Conflict, Institute for Cultural Affairs, international aid, international development, Keystone INGO Partner Survey, M&E, monitoring, organizational development, participatory processes, Peace Direct, peacebuilding, Ruairi Nolan, spider diagram, transparency, Uganda 1 Comment

October 18th, 2011 - 2:50 am § in Guest Bloggers

Can allies help Palestinians to reform aid? How?

Nora Lester Murad of the Dalia Association, Palestine’s first and only community foundation, shares their progress in a current advocacy campaign to reform international aid in Palestine and poses questions to how-matters.org readers.[...]