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April 25th, 2011 - 2:26 pm § in Uncategorized

Remembering George Harrison on the road to Busan

Live tweet transcript from Oxfam’s “The Road to Busan: Ensuring Citizens Drive Their Own Development” session at the World Bank/IMF spring meetings…and a Beatle sings about development?[...]

Tags: #RoadToBusan, Accra Agenda, aid effectiveness, aid reform, Barbara Lee, Brenda Killen, civic engagement, civil society, community participation, CSOs, Dalitso Kubalasa, donors, Dr. Sumara Kamara, foreign aid, foreign assistance, HLF4, IMF, InterAction, international aid, international development, Malawi, Malawi Economic Justice Network, Marisa Lago, NGOs, OECD, Oxfam, Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, Publish What You Fund, results, Sierra Leone, The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, transparency, Transparency International, World Bank, World Bank/IMF annual meetings, World Vision 2 Comments

April 5th, 2011 - 4:13 pm § in Uncategorized

Call for Photos: A Day Without Dignity Campaign

Calling for specific photographs to help make a video that will imitate the TOMS shoes video for the A Day Without Dignity counter-campaign.[...]

Tags: aid workers, awareness raising, charity, community participation, developing countries, diaspora, dignity, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Good Intentions Are Not Enough, goods in-kind, in-kind donations, international aid, international development, nonprofit marketing, Saundra Schimmelpfennig, SWEDOW, TOMS Shoes 3 Comments

March 30th, 2011 - 5:38 pm § in Reflection & Rumination, Uncategorized

If I had only known…

Advice for people embarking on an aid career or any international do-gooder endeavor. [...]

Tags: aid industry, aid workers, charity, compassion, cultural humility, cynicism, dignity, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, graduate school, international aid, international development, Karen Armstrong, NGOs, racism, service 17 Comments

March 15th, 2011 - 10:01 am § in Uncategorized

The Tweets That Weren’t

An eclectic collection of articles and posts on international development that did not receive their due tweets from me.[...]

Tags: aid workers, capacity building, community participation, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, International Women’s Day, NGOs, organizational development, social movements No Comments

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Remembering George Harrison on the road to Busan

Call for Photos: A Day Without Dignity Campaign

If I had only known…

The Tweets That Weren’t

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