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March 6th, 2012 - 11:02 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

Bad guys, good guys, and the people in between

On Invisible Children's latest Kony2012 campaign: What does "the founder's inability to just 'stay' with Jacob in that dark, low moment" [when he talks about how much he misses his slain brother] say about the organization's approach?[...]

Tags: advocacy, Africa Canada Accountability Coalition, Arab Spring, conflict, international aid, international NGOs, Invisible Children, Kona2012, Mindfulness for NGOs, Northern Uganda, peacebuilding, Uganda, University of British Columbia 69 Comments

October 5th, 2011 - 7:34 am § in Reflection & Rumination

What’s missing from the aid effectiveness debate? Overlooking the capacity of local organizations

Are we overlooking the capacity of local NGOs? My guest post on The Broker Online argues that rather than being the lowest common denominator of international assistance, local indigenous organizations should be regarded as the fundamental unit of effective development aid.[...]

Tags: accountability, Accra Agenda for Action, alternatives, Arab Spring, Busan, Center for Global Development, Chet Tchozewski, climate change, community participation, community-based organizations, complexity, conflict, food crisis, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, GlobalGreengrants, grassroots organizations, HIV/AIDS, international aid, international development, NGOs, Oxfam, Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, poverty, power dynamics, Rajiv Shah, Robert Zoellick, social change, social movements, Somalia, South Africa, Todd Moss, USAID, WiserEarth, women’s groups, World Bank 4 Comments

August 5th, 2011 - 6:40 am § in Uncategorized

Behind the Barricades, There Is Happiness

Richard Moore, founder of Children in Crossfire in Derry, Ireland, discusses the figurative blind spots for many people as they become involved in aid work. Richard, who was literally blinded by a British soldier at the age of 10, also discusses the value of community and the power of vulnerability.[...]

Tags: AFRI, aid workers, blindness, Children in Crossfire, civil rights, community building, compassion, Concern, conflict, Derry, development education, disability rights, education, Ethiopia, foreign aid, foreign assistance, global poverty, health, human rights, humanitarian organizations, international aid, Ireland, Malawi, NGOs, Northern Ireland, peace and reconciliation, peacebuilding, Richard Moore, Tanzania, the Dalai Lama, The Gambia, vulnerability 1 Comment

July 26th, 2011 - 6:34 am § in Poetry Pause, Uncategorized

Delights of the Green Isle

Highlights from my conversations with the great people I was able to connect with in Ireland – Alessandra Pigni, Richard Moore, Hans Zomer and Clare Mulvany – and thoughts on the opening of the Derry Peace Bridge.[...]

Tags: accountability, aid workers, Alessandra Pigni, Bloody Sunday, Children in Crossfire, civil rights, Clare Mulvany, community building, conflict, Derry, Derry Peace Bri dge, Dóchas Network, EU, European Union, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Hans Zomer, humanitarian organizations, Ian Wilson, international aid, IRA, Londonderry, mindfulness, Mindfulness for NGOs, NGOs, Northern Ireland, One Wild Life, Oxford, peace and reconciliation, peacebuilding, poetry, Richard Moore, staff burnout 2 Comments

June 8th, 2011 - 4:56 am § in Poetry Pause, Reflection & Rumination

An aid worker’s poetic journey

The new Peace Bridge in Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland will be dedicated on June 25th. And amazing to me still, I, the poet, will be there.[...]

Tags: Bloody Sunday, civil rights, conflict, Derry, Derry Peace Bridge, European Union, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Ian Wilson, international aid, IRA, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, peace and reconciliation, peacebuilding, Phillip Larkin, poetry, Seasmus Heaney, Shift I 6 Comments

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

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Posts Tagged ‘conflict’

Bad guys, good guys, and the people in between

What’s missing from the aid effectiveness debate? Overlooking the capacity of local organizations

Behind the Barricades, There Is Happiness

Delights of the Green Isle

An aid worker’s poetic journey

Seeing the future in sovereign local organizations – Part I

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