Only one of the Washington D.C. aid industry events I attended yesterday got us closer to fixing the problems that continue to plague and perplex us.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘aid industry’
December 14th, 2011 - 8:34 am § in Reflection & Rumination
A tale of two realities
Tags: accountability, aid effectiveness, aid industry, aid partnerships, community ownership, donors, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, international aid, international development, M&E, monitoring, ownership, Oxfam, Oxfam America, risk management, SID Washington, social change, Society for International Development 3 Comments
May 25th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination
RCTs: Some “how matters” advice for donors
"Be smart about what RCTs cannot tell us. Allow space for the unseen, complex and long-term consequences of aid investments to be discovered through accompanying and complementary research methods."[...]
Tags: aid effectiveness, aid industry, aid workers, alternatives, applied research, behavioral economics, community-based organizations, Dean Karlan, development economics, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions, NGOs, power dynamics, randomized control trials, RCT4D, RCTs, social movements No Comments
May 24th, 2011 - 10:33 am § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination
RCTs and aid effectiveness: Much to be said
A compilation of recent posts and a tweet debate related to randomized control trials and aid effectiveness.[...]
Tags: Abhijit Banerjee, aid effectiveness, aid industry, aid workers, alternatives, applied research, behavioral economics, community-based organizations, Dean Karlan, development economics, donors, Esther Duflo, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions, NGOs, Poor Economics, power dynamics, randomized control trials, RCT4D, RCTs, social movements 7 Comments
May 24th, 2011 - 8:44 am § in Reflection & Rumination
RCTs: A band-aid on a deeper issue?
“We all want to see deeper thinking behind the doing. Where I think we differ is on some fundamental beliefs about what prevents this and what ails the aid industry overall.” A review of More Than Good Intentions: How a new economics is helping to solve global poverty[...]
Tags: aid effectiveness, aid industry, aid workers, alternatives, Amartya Sen, applied research, behavioral economics, community-based organizations, Dean Karlan, development economics, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions, NGOs, power dynamics, randomized control trials, RCT4D, RCTs, social movements 9 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. [...]
