Are aid workers fighting while propagating the very organizations in which they serve? It’s as if the perpetuation of the institutions themselves slowly, silently becomes what consumes people, rather than the needs and priorities of those they are ultimately meant to serve.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Community Development Resource Association’
November 26th, 2011 - 8:33 am § in Reflection & Rumination
Hallowed Halls or Ghost Towns?
Tags: aid accountability, aid effectiveness, aid institutions, aid workers, Bo Burlingham, CDRA, Community Development Resource Association, community ownership, community participation, donors, Dov Seidman, Dylan Ratigan, foreign aid, foreign assistance, fundraising, HOW: Why HOW we do anything means everything, international aid, international development, local empowerment, Occupy Movement, project management, results, Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead Of Big 10 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
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
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
July 26th, 2010 - 7:39 pm § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers
Seeing the future in sovereign local organizations – Part 2
A local sovereign organisation is an authentic expression of the will and voice of its own constituents. While it may accept funding to provide services, it is not a surrogate vehicle for the projects of another agency's purpose.[...]
Tags: alternatives, capacity building, CDRA, civil society organizations, Community Development Resource Association, community-based organizations, consultant, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, injustice, institutional development, international aid, international development, learning, NGOs, organizational development, organizational sovereignty, partnership, poverty, power dynamics, project cycle, reform, rights-based approach, social change, social movements, South Africa, sovereignty, strategy, The Barefoot Guide, values 1 Comment
July 25th, 2010 - 6:00 pm § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers
Seeing the future in sovereign local organizations – Part I
Sovereignty is both a quality to be developed and a right to be respected and defended. It is a particularly powerful concept when applied to organisation, suggesting authentic qualities, describing a home-grown resilience, an inside-out identity, the idea of an organisation being the expression of [...]
Tags: alternatives, capacity building, CDRA, civil society organizations, Community Development Resource Association, community-based organizations, conflict, donors, food sovereignty, foreign aid, foreign assistance, globalization, grassroots organizations, institutional development, international aid, international development, leadership, learning, NGOs, organizational development, organizational sovereignty, partnership, poverty, power dynamics, reform, social change, social movements, South Africa, sovereignty, strategy, The Barefoot Guide, values 2 Comments
