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.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘HIV/AIDS’
October 24th, 2011 - 1:00 pm § in Reflection & Rumination
Real Impact with Saeed Wame
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
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
September 19th, 2011 - 3:55 pm § in Guest Bloggers
The Joy of Aid Work
A friend shares her description of the joy of aid work from Zambia.[...]
March 11th, 2011 - 8:12 am § in Reflection & Rumination
Did I fund Organization X?
We need smart people to identify what works, yes. We also need these same smart people to utilize their skills to meet organizations where they are, rather than trying to form them into versions of ourselves.[...]
Tags: aid workers, alternatives, capacity building, community participation, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, grassroots organizations, HIV/AIDS, international aid, international development, NGOs, organizational development, orphans and vulnerable children, OVC, small grants, social movements, Zimbabwe 6 Comments
November 8th, 2010 - 9:10 pm § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination
What’s missing from the DIY aid debate? Overlooking the Capacity of Local NGOs
Are we overlooking the capacity of local NGOs? Rather than being the lowest common denominator of international assistance, indigenous organizations should be regarded as the fundamental unit of effective development aid.[...]
Tags: accountability, aid workers, alternatives, capacity building, community participation, community-based organizations, complexity, DIY aid, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, GlobalGreengrants, grassroots organizations, HIV/AIDS, international aid, international development, JLICA, Malawi, Namibia, NGOs, Nicholas Kristof, organizational development, power dynamics, Robert L. Woodson, social change, social movements, South Africa, Uganda, UNICEF, voluntourism, WiserEarth 21 Comments
