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April 8th, 2012 - 10:05 am § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

“With the available resources we had…”

James Oonyu, the Founder and Director of Liregu Christian Grace Ministries, a faith-based community development organization based in Lira, Uganda, explains the capacity challenges his organization faces, as well as the very real challenges he faces in working with aid funders.[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, capacity building, community development, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donor community, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, HIV, international aid, international development, Northern Uganda, organizational development, philanthropy, Uganda 4 Comments

February 7th, 2012 - 4:01 pm § in Guest Bloggers

Don’t change the message. Change the messenger.

Weh Yeoh of whydev.org argues that everything that we do in development is about selling a message. But how do we convince people when a message goes against the grain of what they already believe?[...]

Tags: aid conditionality, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Bill Gates, Brendan Rigby, China, communications, David Cameron, Development Crossroads, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Glee, HIV, HPV vaccine, influence, international aid, international development, Jet Li, New Scientist, NGO communications, NGOs, peer coaching, philanthropy, Shana Montesol Johnson, social enterprise, Weh Yeoh, whydev.org, Zimbabwe 7 Comments

October 24th, 2011 - 1:00 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

Real Impact with Saeed Wame

Sharing my conversation with Saaed Wame, founder and director of local organization NACC in Malawi, on valuing community contributions, the challenges of child protection, and how numbers cannot portray the true value of his organization’s work.[...]

Tags: adolescent girls, aid effectiveness, aid impact, AIDS, capacity building, child labor, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, early childhood development, early marriage, education, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, HIV, HIV/AIDS, international aid, international development, joop rubens, local aid contributions, M&E, M&E results, Malawi, Malawi Ministry of Education, maternal health, monitoring, NACC, Namwera AIDS Coordinating Committee, organizational development, property grabbing, Saeed Wame, volunteers 6 Comments

September 20th, 2011 - 11:46 am § in Good Practice

Waiting for Pennies from Heaven

Sharing a list of fundraising resources for community-based organizations in the developing world.[...]

Tags: AIDS, BOND UK, CGI2011, CIVICUS, Clinton Global Initiative, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding flows, funding mechanisms, fundraising, Global Fund for Women, GlobalGiving, grassroots leaders, grassroots organizations, HIV, Idasa, international aid, international development, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, MDG Summit, millennium development goals, Resource Alliance, resource mobilization, Save the Children UK, SoCap2010 global poverty, Tearfund, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Uganda, Women Thrive Worldwide, World Bank 2 Comments

September 1st, 2011 - 4:58 pm § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination

Another Must Listen

Highlighting This American Life’s Episode 444: Gossip (Originally aired 8/26/11), which covers research relevant to HIV prevention in Malawi.[...]

Tags: aid, aid agencies, aid effectiveness, aid elites, aid workers, AIDS, development assistance, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, global health, HIV, HIV prevention, international aid, international development, Malawi, Malawi government, NGOs, non-governmental organizations, public health, This American Life, USAID No Comments

August 30th, 2011 - 11:12 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers

The Curious Aid Worker: Storytelling with Marc Maxson (Part II)

“If your general impression [is that most grassroots organizations are incapacitated], then you’ve been driving a white SUV through a village to get the ‘authentic’ feel of some project.” ~Marc Maxson of GlobalGiving’s Storytelling Project[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid partnerships, capacity building, cash transfers, Chewy Chunks, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, corruption, development jargon, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, GlobalGiving, grassroots organizations, HIV, human rights, international aid, international development, Kenya, knowledge management, Marc Maxson, neuroscience, NGOs, ODA, organizational development, qualitative data, remittances, social prosperity, storytelling, The Storytelling Project, Uganda, USAID, World Bank 3 Comments

April 17th, 2011 - 6:18 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

Got ‘Em: An Evaluation Story

The evaluation report was scathing, but I felt honest. And given the sharing of the preliminary results, it should have hardly come as a surprise…But it did.[...]

Tags: aid workers, community participation, community-based organizations, evaluation, food security, foreign aid, foreign assistance, HIV, implementing partners, INGOs, international aid, international development, international NGOs, M&E, participatory evaluation, partnership 7 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?[...]