Sharing sixteen elements of an organization that change as it gets stronger. By Phil Bartle, PhD.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘civil society’
February 1st, 2012 - 8:00 am § in Good Practice
What changes as an organization gets stronger?
Tags: Aaron Ausland, capacity building, civil society, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, good practice, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, NGOs, non-governmental organizations, organizational change, organizational development, Phil Bartle, social change 4 Comments
October 16th, 2011 - 12:50 pm § in Reflection & Rumination
#111: Milestones and Mountains Left to Climb
How-matters.org’s 111th post! Celebrating some results of the past year and sharing next steps![...]
Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, capacity building, civil society, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, consultancy, consultant, DIY aid, donors, Duncan McNicholl, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, how-matters.org, Huffington Post, InterAction, international aid, international development, job search, LinkedIn, M&E, Monday Developments, monitoring, organizational development, Rwanda, small grants, SmartAid, The Broker Online, The Listening Project, World Bank 3 Comments
September 11th, 2011 - 10:00 am § in Good Practice
A Second Dip into the Reading Pile
Sharing excerpts of twelve papers on international development and aid effectiveness from my reading pile. [...]
Tags: aid workers, alternatives, Andrea Cornwall, Antal Miklós, Barbara Klugman, BOND, capacity building, Center for Evaluation Innovation, civil society, collective action, Community Development Resource Association, community managed disaster risk reduction, community participation, Cordaid, Deborah Eade, development jargon, disaster risk reduction, DRR, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, fundamentalism, Global Focus Aotearoa, grassroots initiatives, grassroots organizations, HIVOS, Horn of Africa, INGOs, InterAction, intermediate support organizations, international advocacy, international aid, international development, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, JeCCDO, Kelly Byrnes, Keystone Accountability, Management Systems International, NGO effectiveness, NGO performance, NGO transparency, NIDOS, organizational development, Oxfam, participatory democracy, pluralism, poverty definition, Practical Action Publishing, Ronelle Burger, Sierra Leone, social capital, social justice, The Innovation Journal, Trudy Owens, Uganda 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
April 4th, 2011 - 2:25 pm § in Guest Bloggers
Welcome new GAVI CEO! You’ve got quite a task ahead!
A new charismatic CEO for GAVI: Can he see through spin at global health cocktail parties? Get dirt under his fingernails to discover the real customers? Negotiate with pharma for lower prices? Get non-Gates donors to open their wallets? And all at the same time?[...]
Tags: big pharma, civil society, developing countries, DTP-HepB, epidemiology, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Gates Foundation, GAVI, GAVI Alliance, GFATM, Global Fund, health policy, health systems strengthening, HIV, HPV, immunization, immunizations, international aid, malaria, monitoring, NGOs, PMNCH, primary healthcare, project management, public health, tuberculosis, UNFPA, vaccine price negotiations, vaccines, World Bank 2 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
