Helping hands, ignoring demands: The contemporary approach to development?
What will it take for “customer satisfaction” to become our measure of success? A guest post by Jose Javier Lanza
What will it take for “customer satisfaction” to become our measure of success? A guest post by Jose Javier Lanza
Links to stories on those responding to Ebola on the ground, regardless of international aid or media coverage
“The Development Element: Guidelines for the future of communicating about the end of global poverty” resonates with those in the #globaldev sector.
Communicators are shaping the global development narrative.
How has US foreign assistance funding changed over the last sixty years?
Exploring the state of employment and civil society once the international community and humanitarian aid are gone.
What if nascent grassroots organizations needed something totally different to assess their organizational capacity?
Women are already bringing about development. I frankly didn’t realize that we weren’t.
You won’t find yogurt or a grizzly bear here. When we talk about #HowMatters, it’s about how well-intentioned people often fall short of changing the lives of the people they want to help.
Who makes up the development landscape? Sharing my taxonomy of the fundamental, old-school, and new-school players on the scene.
On one of the social good industry’s most killer assumptions: That in the developing world, nothing exists, i.e. that there’s a blank slate upon which our interventions can be built.
My recent article on farmers’ feedback on Feed the Future in Haiti, appearing in Oxfam America’s latest CloseUp Magazine.
8 sets of questions on our organizations’ ability to be responsive to feedback
6 things that inhibit our ability to listen to those on the receiving end of aid