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November 12th, 2011 - 7:57 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

Hillary, Julia, Stoves Won’t Save the World

On World Pneumonia Day, I ask what has become of The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves a year later. Why has yet another “silver bullet” failed to make a difference for those in the developing world?[...]

Tags: aid workers, Al Gore, Aprovecho Research Center, climate change, community-based organizations, deforestation, developing countries, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, global health, grassroots organizations, Hillary Clinton, improved cook stoves, international aid, international development, Julia Roberts, MDG Summit, millennium development goals, The New Yorker, Uganda, women’s empowerment, World Pneumonia Day 5 Comments

August 19th, 2011 - 4:42 pm § in Poetry Pause

Friday’s Poetic Pause: “Query” by Akwasi Aidoo

A new Friday feature on how-matters.org! Sharing “Query,” a poem by Akwasi Aidoo, Executive Director of Trust Africa[...]

Tags: Africa, aid effectiveness, Akwasi Aidoo, capacity building, colonialism, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, developing countries, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, organizational development, social movements, Trust Africa, TrustAfrica No Comments

April 5th, 2011 - 4:13 pm § in Uncategorized

Call for Photos: A Day Without Dignity Campaign

Calling for specific photographs to help make a video that will imitate the TOMS shoes video for the A Day Without Dignity counter-campaign.[...]

Tags: aid workers, awareness raising, charity, community participation, developing countries, diaspora, dignity, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Good Intentions Are Not Enough, goods in-kind, in-kind donations, international aid, international development, nonprofit marketing, Saundra Schimmelpfennig, SWEDOW, TOMS Shoes 3 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

November 26th, 2010 - 6:01 am § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

“Smart Aid”: A cautionary note, by David Week

David Week: ""We should aim to help each other out in a friendly manner: the target of tomorrow’s devastating [aid] critique might well be us...Let's hold our beliefs lightly." [...]