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Posts Tagged ‘accountability’
January 28th, 2011 - 9:07 am § in Reflection & Rumination
Grassroots = No Brains?
Statements from aid workers like “grassroots=no brains” perpetuate the myth of low capacity about small and local organizations. They are derogatory and patronizing at best.[...]
January 13th, 2011 - 6:26 am § in Good Practice
Small is Beautiful…Grants, That Is (Part 2)
When the level of community ownership of a program or organization is adequately established, a certain amount of trust can then be relied upon for accountability in a small grants scenario.[...]
Tags: accountability, aid effectiveness, alternatives, capacity building, civil society building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding applications, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, local leadership, local sovereignty, microgrants, NGOs, small grants, social movements, UN-WOMEN 22 Comments
January 10th, 2011 - 10:39 am § in Good Practice
Small is Beautiful…Grants, That Is (Part 1)
“We all want to support the kind of people whose good work would not stop if you paid them to quit. That’s what small grants can do best.” ~Chet Tchozewski, Global Greengrants Fund[...]
Tags: accountability, aid effectiveness, alternatives, Bill Easterly, community participation, community-based organizations, Fahamu, foreign aid, foreign assistance, GHETS, Global Greengrants, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, local leadership, microgrants, NGOs, small grants, social movements, UN-WOMEN 7 Comments
November 8th, 2010 - 9:10 pm § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination
What’s missing from the DIY aid debate? Overlooking the Capacity of Local NGOs
Are we overlooking the capacity of local NGOs? Rather than being the lowest common denominator of international assistance, indigenous organizations should be regarded as the fundamental unit of effective development aid.[...]
Tags: accountability, aid workers, alternatives, capacity building, community participation, community-based organizations, complexity, DIY aid, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, GlobalGreengrants, grassroots organizations, HIV/AIDS, international aid, international development, JLICA, Malawi, Namibia, NGOs, Nicholas Kristof, organizational development, power dynamics, Robert L. Woodson, social change, social movements, South Africa, Uganda, UNICEF, voluntourism, WiserEarth 21 Comments
October 31st, 2010 - 2:01 pm § in Good Practice
Dipping into the reading pile
Sharing excerpts of twelve papers on international development and aid effectiveness from my reading pile. [...]
Tags: accountability, aid effectiveness, aid workers, alternatives, Andrew Natios, Aspen Institute, AWID, CAFOD, Camfed, capacity building, community participation, complexity, economic growth, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, Global South, globalization, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, INTRAC, Kenya, monitoring and evaluation, organizational development, philanthropy, solidarity, Tearfund, USAID, values, World Bank 4 Comments
October 10th, 2010 - 8:26 pm § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination
Changing the system…from the ground up
"‘The system’ whereby foreign donors give handouts, and not sustainable initiatives that are drawn from the needs of the communities, is a problem.” ~R.F.M. community activist, Zimbabwe[...]
Tags: accountability, aid workers, alternatives, Argentina, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, downward accountability, Ethiopia, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, grassroots organizations, ideas, innovation, intermediaries, international aid, international development, Kenya, Listening Project, Malawi, Mozambique, Palestine, power dynamics, solutions, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, USAID, Zimbabwe 8 Comments
September 2nd, 2010 - 1:23 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers
Listening to People on the Receiving End of Aid
Aid recipients “are more concerned about ‘how’ assistance is provided than how much is given.” Initial findings from The Listening Project, a systematic exploration of the insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient end of international assistance efforts.[...]
Tags: academics, accountability, Aceh, Afghanistan, aid workers, alternatives, Angola, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burma, business people, Cambodia, capacity building, civil society, community leaders, community participation, community-based organizations, East Timor, Ecuador, Ethiopia, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, government officials, grassroots organizations, Harvard Hauser Center, health workers, impact, Indonesia, international aid, international development, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, listening, Listening Project, Mali, Mindanao, Myanmar, NGO staff, organizational development, ownership, partnership, power dynamics, religious leaders, respect, solidarity, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, teachers, Thailand, US Gulf Coast, women, youth, Zimbabwe 14 Comments
August 2nd, 2010 - 9:16 pm § in Good Practice
Reuters: New report, model of best practice for aid world
For Camfed, governance is about...who controls resources, and where and to whom accountability lies within the communities it serves, said the report. It is also about the relationships and structures through which communities organise themselves.[...]
Tags: accountability, activism, AlertNet, alternatives, best practice, Camfed, Campaign for Female Education, community-based organizations, dependency, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Ghana, girls, governance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Linklaters, Malawi, MDGs, NGOs, operating standards, Reuters, social capital, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe 1 Comment
July 30th, 2010 - 11:52 pm § in Reflection & Rumination
More on why ‘How Matters’
I believe that our role as “outsiders,” whether we are working for a multilateral donor in Nairobi or having wanderlust dreams during our unfulfilling job in Ohio, must be about getting community leaders the resources that they need to address their own priorities.[...]
Tags: academia, accountability, aid effectiveness, aid reform, aid workers, alternatives, community participation, community-based organizations, compassion, Dennis Whittle, dependency, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, GlobalGiving, governance, grassroots organizations, impact, international aid, international development, multilateral donor, philanthropy, power dynamics, racism, social innovation, U.N., United Nations 3 Comments
