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December 3rd, 2011 - 12:05 pm § in Guest Bloggers

Transparency. Accountability. Impact.

These buzzwords are everywhere these days, but what do they really mean? Kimberly Lemme, Sr. Manager, Program Finance & Compliance at Water for People, shares how her organization re-defines and approaches these concepts.[...]

Tags: accountability, aid buzzwords, aid effectiveness, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, impact, international aid, international development, Kim Lemme, M&E, Médecins sans Frontières, monitoring, MSF, Ned Breslin, transparency, water and sanitation, Water for People, watsan 3 Comments

August 29th, 2011 - 6:04 pm § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers

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

“Half the stories of community change are not about NGOs at all, but individuals. It’s time NGOs realized they’re not the center of the community, and figured out how to work with the individuals who are.” ~from my interview with Marc Maxson of GlobalGiving’s Storytelling Project[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid partnerships, capacity building, Chewy Chunks, Cognitive Edge, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, downward accountability, East Africa, Facebook, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, game theory, GlobalGiving, grassroots organizations, impact, international aid, international development, Kenya, knowledge management, Liberia, Marc Maxson, monitoring and evaluation, neuroscience, NGOs, online fundraising, organizational curiosity, organizational development, Peace Corps, qualitative data, qualitative methods, SenseMaker, storytelling, The Storytelling Project, Uganda 4 Comments

September 2nd, 2010 - 1:23 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers

Listening to People on the Receiving End of Aid

Aid recipients “are more concerned about ‘how’ assistance is provided than how much is given.” Initial findings from The Listening Project, a systematic exploration of the insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient end of international assistance efforts.[...]

Tags: academics, accountability, Aceh, Afghanistan, aid workers, alternatives, Angola, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burma, business people, Cambodia, capacity building, civil society, community leaders, community participation, community-based organizations, East Timor, Ecuador, Ethiopia, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, government officials, grassroots organizations, Harvard Hauser Center, health workers, impact, Indonesia, international aid, international development, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, listening, Listening Project, Mali, Mindanao, Myanmar, NGO staff, organizational development, ownership, partnership, power dynamics, religious leaders, respect, solidarity, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, teachers, Thailand, US Gulf Coast, women, youth, Zimbabwe 13 Comments

July 30th, 2010 - 11:52 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

More on why ‘How Matters’

I believe that our role as “outsiders,” whether we are working for a multilateral donor in Nairobi or having wanderlust dreams during our unfulfilling job in Ohio, must be about getting community leaders the resources that they need to address their own priorities.[...]

Tags: academia, accountability, aid effectiveness, aid reform, aid workers, alternatives, community participation, community-based organizations, compassion, Dennis Whittle, dependency, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, GlobalGiving, governance, grassroots organizations, impact, international aid, international development, multilateral donor, philanthropy, power dynamics, racism, social innovation, U.N., United Nations 3 Comments

July 9th, 2010 - 4:11 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

The Conundrum of Counting Beneficiaries

The bottom line question for many people working internationally is seemingly simple—How many people were reached? This question often becomes a huge drain on financial and human resources, especially for under-resourced local organizations.[...]

Tags: accountability, beneficiaries, counting, development assistance, donors, double counting, financial resources, foreign aid, human resources, impact, indirect beneficiaries, information, international aid, international development, local organizations, monitoring, outcomes, outputs, resource-poor setting No Comments

How Matters

Posts Tagged ‘impact’

Transparency. Accountability. Impact.

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

Listening to People on the Receiving End of Aid

More on why ‘How Matters’

The Conundrum of Counting Beneficiaries

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