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October 24th, 2011 - 1:00 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

Real Impact with Saeed Wame

Sharing my conversation with Saaed Wame, founder and director of local organization NACC in Malawi, on valuing community contributions, the challenges of child protection, and how numbers cannot portray the true value of his organization’s work.[...]

Tags: adolescent girls, aid effectiveness, aid impact, AIDS, capacity building, child labor, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, early childhood development, early marriage, education, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, HIV, HIV/AIDS, international aid, international development, joop rubens, local aid contributions, M&E, M&E results, Malawi, Malawi Ministry of Education, maternal health, monitoring, NACC, Namwera AIDS Coordinating Committee, organizational development, property grabbing, Saeed Wame, volunteers 6 Comments

September 20th, 2011 - 11:46 am § in Good Practice

Waiting for Pennies from Heaven

Sharing a list of fundraising resources for community-based organizations in the developing world.[...]

Tags: AIDS, BOND UK, CGI2011, CIVICUS, Clinton Global Initiative, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding flows, funding mechanisms, fundraising, Global Fund for Women, GlobalGiving, grassroots leaders, grassroots organizations, HIV, Idasa, international aid, international development, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, MDG Summit, millennium development goals, Resource Alliance, resource mobilization, Save the Children UK, SoCap2010 global poverty, Tearfund, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Uganda, Women Thrive Worldwide, World Bank 2 Comments

September 14th, 2011 - 11:44 am § in Reflection & Rumination

New Mission in Life

“Now my heart is in relating human to human,” she said. “Forget class, forget race, this is the reason God sent me here.” (Gasp!) Sharing an article written about me in 1998.[...]

Tags: aid workers, AIDS, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Fairfield Orphanage, Fairfield Orphanage Student Association, Faith to Action, international aid, Methodist Volunteers in Mission, Mutare, orphanages, orphans, OVC, volunteerism, volunteers, vulnerable children, Zimbabwe 4 Comments

September 1st, 2011 - 4:58 pm § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination

Another Must Listen

Highlighting This American Life’s Episode 444: Gossip (Originally aired 8/26/11), which covers research relevant to HIV prevention in Malawi.[...]

Tags: aid, aid agencies, aid effectiveness, aid elites, aid workers, AIDS, development assistance, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, global health, HIV, HIV prevention, international aid, international development, Malawi, Malawi government, NGOs, non-governmental organizations, public health, This American Life, USAID No Comments

October 5th, 2010 - 11:55 am § in Good Practice

Waiting for Pennies from Heaven

A list of fundraising resources for community-based organizations in the developing world[...]

Tags: AIDS, BOND UK, CIVICUS, Clinton Global Initiative, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding flows, funding mechanisms, fundraising, Global Fund for Women, global poverty, GlobalGiving, grassroots leaders, grassroots organizations, HIV, Idasa, international aid, international development, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, MDG Summit, millennium development goals, Resource Alliance, resource mobilization, Save the Children UK, SoCap 2010, Tearfund, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Uganda, Women Thrive Worldwide, World Bank 14 Comments

July 28th, 2010 - 2:34 pm § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

A Heartbreaker

Yes, the paradigm of development can break our hearts. But everyday, we have a choice. Will we slump into the system? Or will we challenge the parts of it that prevent us from feeling and exhibiting compassion?[...]

Tags: academia, aid workers, AIDS, community participation, compassion, dependency, economic opportunity, education, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, good governance, grassroots organizations, HIV, India, international aid, international development, Karen Armstrong, Kenya, power dynamics, South Africa, U.N., United Nations 4 Comments

July 21st, 2010 - 2:40 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

The Real Experts

When a privileged few frame the conversation about fighting AIDS or reducing poverty, remedies from above are imposed on the excluded. Yet it’s those on the ground who have the most important knowledge, ideas, and resources to deal with the immense and complex problems of this century.[...]