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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 17th, 2010 - 4:21 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

A New Discipline for Development Practitioners

Organizational development is a discipline that needs to become more central to the practice of the development sector as a whole, not just a small professional enclave. [...]

Tags: ActionAid, aid workers, alternatives, CDRA, civil society organizations, Community Development Resource Association, community-based organizations, complexity, crisis, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, NGOs, organizational development, organizational learning, Oxfam, partnership, power dynamics, social change, social movements, South Africa, sovereignty, The Barefoot Guide, values, VSO 4 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 15 Comments

August 18th, 2010 - 12:06 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

Changing the aid system: 5 more ideas from the inside

A continuing list of 5 more ideas for changes in international development policy and practice. "Development policy needs to be kept real."[...]

Tags: aid workers, alternatives, Azerbaijan, bureaucracy, community participation, community-based organizations, conditionalities, dependency, donors, DRC, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Global Fund, ideas, innovation, international aid, international development, OECD, Palestine, PEPFAR, power dynamics, Red Cross, solutions, South Africa, U.N., USAID 2 Comments

August 17th, 2010 - 12:37 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

Changing the aid system: 5 ideas from the inside

We all know it’s easier to identify problems and critique. Here’s a starting list of 5 ideas for changes in international development policy and practice. [...]

Tags: aid workers, alternatives, bureaucracy, cash transfers, community participation, community-based organizations, dependency, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, Global Fund, ideas, innovation, international aid, international development, Malawi, Mozambique, OVC, Pakistan, PEPFAR, power dynamics, Rwanda, solutions, South Africa, Swaziland, USAID, Zimbabwe 6 Comments

August 5th, 2010 - 8:43 pm § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination

Development Aid 2.0

My personal list of raw ideas that helps me contrast what I consider to be “old school development” and the long overdue emergence of alternatives to "business as usual” in foreign assistance.[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, alternatives, Andrew Natios, bureaucracy, capacity building, Community Development Resource Association, community participation, community-based organizations, compassion, crowdsourcing, Development Aid 2.0, disaster relief, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, grantmaking, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, organizational development, Pankaj Mishra, Paul Hawken, Peace Corps, power dynamics 8 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

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