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Posts Tagged ‘aid reform’
May 9th, 2012 - 5:00 pm § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination
Why I support isolated aid workers across the globe and so should you!
The estimated 595,000 aid workers around the world (ALNAP, 2010) are rarely called to examine the bureaucratic rigidities that govern their day-to-day work. By supporting each other to create more trust, equity and mutual accountability with those we serve in the developing world, system-wide reform[...]
Tags: aid effectiveness, aid reform, aid workers, capacity building, coaching, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, mentoring, organizational development, philanthropy, social enterprise, whydev.org 3 Comments
October 18th, 2011 - 2:50 am § in Guest Bloggers
Can allies help Palestinians to reform aid? How?
Nora Lester Murad of the Dalia Association, Palestine’s first and only community foundation, shares their progress in a current advocacy campaign to reform international aid in Palestine and poses questions to how-matters.org readers.[...]
Tags: advocacy, advocacy campaigns, aid effectiveness, aid reform, AIDA, Busan, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, conditional funding, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, grassroots activists, grassroots organizations, international aid, international aid system, international development, Ma’an Development Center, OPT, organizational development, Palestine, Palestinian NGOs, restricted funding, USAID 1 Comment
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
World Bank and IMF, Don’t Just Develop Capacity – Unleash It
An overview of the session, “Winds of Change: Will it bring a new development paradigm?" that will take place this week during the World Bank/IMF spring meetings. Join the webcast on Friday, April 15th at 2pm EST (6pm GMT).[...]
Tags: accountability, Accra Agenda, aid effectiveness, aid reform, Arab revolution, Arab uprisings, Busan, capacity building, Center for Global Development, CSOs, DataDyne, Dayna Brown, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Global Fund for Children, GlobalGiving.org, Heather Baser, IMF, international aid, international development, International Monetary Fund, Joel Selanikio, John Hecklinger, Middle East, NGOs, North Africa, Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, Robert B. Zoellick, small grants, social movements, Solome Lemma, The Listening Project, Todd Moss, Tom Grubisich, World Bank 3 Comments
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
