On Aid Effectiveness & Foreign Assistance Reform
On Organizational Development & Community-Based Organizations
Documentaries on Global Issues
On Aid Effectiveness & Foreign Assistance Reform
Affiliated Network for Social Accountability-Africa – a project of IDASA
Aid Data – tracking development finance
Aid Watch – just asking that aid benefit the poor
Beyond Good Intentions – A ten-part film series (and movement) investigating the effectiveness of international aid
Change.org’s posts on humanitarian relief
Civil Society Voices for Better Aid
Community Development Resource Association – South African centre for organisational innovation and developmental practice.
Dochas, The Irish Association of Non-Governmental Development Organizations’ page on Development Effectiveness and Useful Resources from their New Voices in Development Conference
European Network on Debt & Development
Exit Poverty Social (Kenya)
Global Humanitarian Assistance – here to try and help you find out about humanitarian financing. Where does the money come from? Where does it go? How does it get there? And what is the overall response to need?
Good Intentions Are Not Enough – An honest conversation about the impact of aid
Institute of Development Studies’ Reimaging Development
InterAction’s pages on Aid Effectiveness and Foreign Assistance Reform
International Aid Transparency Initiative
International Budget Project’s Open Budgets Blog – working with with civil society around the world to analyze and influence public budgets in order to reduce poverty
Listen First – Practical ways of improving accountability for NGOs
The Listening Project – An exploration of the ideas and insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient side of international assistance
Managing for Developing Results
Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network
OpenAid – public online monitoring for better development aid
Overseas Development Institute
Oxfam America and Oxfam International’s pages on aid reform & effectiveness
Publish What You Fund – The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency
South-South Opportunity’s page on SSC and Aid Effectiveness
Tall Orders – Exploring what works in international development
U.C. Irvine Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa
On Organizational Development & Community-Based Organizations
The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organizations and Social Change – The Barefoot Collective
Bond’s Guidance Notes Series (I especially like the one on core funding strategies.)
Building the Capacity of Local Groups – Tearfund
Community Mobilisation Handbook – Pact Tanzania
Community Organizers Handbook: A Resource For Netsquared Local (wiki)
Community Organisers Toolbox – Education & Training Unit for Democracy and Development, South Africa
Capacity Building for Local NGOs: Guidance Manual for Good Practice – Catholic Institute for International Relations and International Cooperation for Development
Donor Fundraising Tips for Small NGOs in Developing Countries – by Jayne Cravens
Find Partners – a hub for resource mobilization
Firelight Foundation Newsflash – Resources for Community Organizations
Idasa Handbook Series for Community-Based Organisations (Some chapters in the series are better than others.)
Mango’s Practical Financial Management for NGOs Training Manual
NGO Manager: Knowledge, Skills and Strategies for Non-profit Professionals
Strengthening Your Organisation – HelpAge International (No longer available on their website, but if you email me, I can share it.)
Tips for Strengthening Organizational Capacity – World Bank Small Grants Program (I especially liked the briefing on local resource mobilization.)
Train-the-Trainer Handbook: Participation, Civic Education, and Community Mobilization – Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa
Training for Transformation: A Handbook for Community Workers, Books 1-3. Zimbabwe: Mambo Press. (Not available online but can be ordered from Amazon.)
Recommended Reading
The Barefoot Collective. (2009). The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organizations and Social Change. Cape Town: Community Development Resource Association. Retrieved March 18, 2009, from www.barefootguide.org
Bearman, J. (2008). Drowning in Paperwork, Distracted from Purpose: Challenges and Opportunities in Grant Application and Reporting. Retrieved April 29, 2008 from Project Streamline Web Site.
Birdsall, K. and K. Kelly, et al. (2007). Pioneers, Partners, Providers: The Dynamics of Civil Society and AIDS Funding in Southern Africa. Braamfontein, South Africa: OSISA and CADRE.
Community Development Resource Association. (2007). Dreaming reality: The future in retrospect. Cape Town: CDRA.
Donohue, J. & Mwewa, L. (2006). Community action and the test of time: Learning from community experiences and perceptions (Case studies of mobilization and capacity building to benefit vulnerable children in Malawi and Zambia). Washington, DC: USAID Displaced Children and Orphans Fund.
Eade, D. (1997). Capacity Building: An Approach to People-Centered Development. U.K.: Oxfam.
Foster, G. (2005). Bottleneck and drip-feeds: Channelling resources to communities responding to orphans and vulnerable children in southern Africa. London: Save the Children.
Gubbels, P. and C. Koss. (2000). From the Roots Up: Strengthening Organizational Capacity through Guided Self-Assessment. Oklahoma City: World Neighbors.
Hawken. P. (2007). Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. New York: Viking Press.
Hope, A. and S. Timmel (1984). Training for Transformation: A Handbook for Community Workers, Books 1-3. Zimbabwe: Mambo Press.
Kaplan, A. (1996). The Development Practitioners Handbook. Cape Town: Pluto Press.
Keystone. (2006). Survey results: Downward accountability to ‘beneficiaries’: NGO and donor perspectives. Retrieved May 28, 2008, from Keystone Web Site.
Kretzmann, J. and J. McKnight. (1993). Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets. Chicago: ACTA Publications.
Manji, F. and A. Naidoo. (2005). Community based organizations: The emerging force within the third sector – strengthening the human rights capacity of CBOs: A survey of 9 southern African countries. Durban: Fahamu.
Palmer, P. (2004). A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Towards an Undivided Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Wesley, F., B. Zimmerman, and M. Q. Patton. (2006). Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed. Random House Canada.
Wilkinson-Maposa, S. & Fowler, A. (2009). The poor philanthropist I-IV. Cape Town: Southern Africa-United States Center for Leadership and Public Values.
Yachkaschi, S. (2008). Towards the development of an appropriate organisational development approach for optimising the capacity building of community-based organisations (CBOs): A case study of three CBOs in the Western Cape. Doctoral dissertation, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Documentaries on Global Issues
Beyond Good Intentions – A ten-part film series (and movement) investigating the effectiveness of international aid
PBS’ Good Fortune – A provocative exploration of how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.
LinkTV – Television Without Borders
Organizations & Networks
African Women’s Development Fund
Community Development Resource Association – South African centre for organisational innovation and developmental practice.
Fahamu Networks for Social Justice
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard – Humanitarian & Development NGOs Domain
Partos Plaza – Netwerken Voor Internationale Samenwerking (in Dutch)
Tamarack – An Institute for Community Engagement
WiserEarth – The Social Network for Sustainability
