Nobody believed that writing a book together could happen, but forty community leaders produced 27 stories about their work in development and empowerment in just 4 hours. Independent consultant Lucia Nass shares her story from Myanmar.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘community leaders’
May 20th, 2012 - 3:00 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers
Write a book in 4 hours with 20 grassroots organizations?—How!?!
Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, capacity building, community empowerment, community leaders, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grantmaking, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Lucia Nass, Myanmar, organizational development, philanthropy, social enterprise, writeshop 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
