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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 6 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

December 14th, 2010 - 12:53 pm § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

Plugging back in: Catching up with the aid blogosphere

Sharing recent links that demonstrate the aid blogosphere’s continued robustness and relevance. Here’s to more in 2011![...]

Tags: aid blogosphere, aid transparency, aid workers, foreign aid, foreign assistance, HIV, Huffington Post, INGOs, international aid, international development, Jumo, knowledge management, Oxfam, Paul Farmer, Save the Children, Wikileaks, World AIDS Day 2 Comments

October 5th, 2010 - 11:55 am § in Good Practice

Waiting for Pennies from Heaven

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

Tags: AIDS, BOND UK, CIVICUS, Clinton Global Initiative, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding flows, funding mechanisms, fundraising, Global Fund for Women, global poverty, 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, SoCap 2010, Tearfund, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Uganda, Women Thrive Worldwide, World Bank 14 Comments

September 13th, 2010 - 6:27 am § in Good Practice

Spotting Community Ownership

Is there genuine community ownership? Are the people served invested in the outcomes of the program? Most importantly, how can we know? ...We start by asking the right questions.[...]

Tags: aid workers, capacity building, community ownership, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, HIV, international aid, international development, NGOs, participation, participation ladder, power dynamics, rights-based programming 13 Comments

July 28th, 2010 - 2:34 pm § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

A Heartbreaker

Yes, the paradigm of development can break our hearts. But everyday, we have a choice. Will we slump into the system? Or will we challenge the parts of it that prevent us from feeling and exhibiting compassion?[...]