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Posts Tagged ‘Malawi’

November 3rd, 2011 - 9:04 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers

Local Realities, Local Adaptation

Tanya Cothran, Executive Administrator at Spirit in Action, writes about how an idea, some information sharing, and a little bit of money can go a long way at the local level when people are behind an initiative.[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, IGAs, income-generating activities, international aid, international development, Malawi, organizational development, site visits, small grants, Spirit in Action, Tanya Cothran, TrickleUp, village savings and loans, VSL 8 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

October 16th, 2011 - 11:25 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

The Value of Feasting

Does the food received at a village feast versus a distribution of flag-emblazoned sacks nourish differently? My contribution to the Blog Action Day 2011. [...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, BAD11, Blog Action Day, capacity building, Carol McAllister, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, corn-soya blend, donors, feasting, food aid, food distribution, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, GSPIA, Indonesia, international aid, international development, Malawi, NGOs, organizational development, qualitative research methods, University of Pittsburgh, vulnerability 4 Comments

September 28th, 2011 - 4:30 am § in Reflection & Rumination

Effective aid: A matter of faith?

In many ways, my work is focused on unanswered questions. What is development? Does it necessarily improve the poor’s lives? What kinds of beasts live in Malawi and how does one get into the chicken coup?[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid partnerships, aid workers, capacity building, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, income-generating activity, international aid, international development, M&E, Malawi, organizational development, RCT4D 4 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 5th, 2011 - 6:40 am § in Uncategorized

Behind the Barricades, There Is Happiness

Richard Moore, founder of Children in Crossfire in Derry, Ireland, discusses the figurative blind spots for many people as they become involved in aid work. Richard, who was literally blinded by a British soldier at the age of 10, also discusses the value of community and the power of vulnerability.[...]

Tags: AFRI, aid workers, blindness, Children in Crossfire, civil rights, community building, compassion, Concern, conflict, Derry, development education, disability rights, education, Ethiopia, foreign aid, foreign assistance, global poverty, health, human rights, humanitarian organizations, international aid, Ireland, Malawi, NGOs, Northern Ireland, peace and reconciliation, peacebuilding, Richard Moore, Tanzania, the Dalai Lama, The Gambia, vulnerability 1 Comment

April 25th, 2011 - 2:26 pm § in Uncategorized

Remembering George Harrison on the road to Busan

Live tweet transcript from Oxfam’s “The Road to Busan: Ensuring Citizens Drive Their Own Development” session at the World Bank/IMF spring meetings…and a Beatle sings about development?[...]

Tags: #RoadToBusan, Accra Agenda, aid effectiveness, aid reform, Barbara Lee, Brenda Killen, civic engagement, civil society, community participation, CSOs, Dalitso Kubalasa, donors, Dr. Sumara Kamara, foreign aid, foreign assistance, HLF4, IMF, InterAction, international aid, international development, Malawi, Malawi Economic Justice Network, Marisa Lago, NGOs, OECD, Oxfam, Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, Publish What You Fund, results, Sierra Leone, The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, transparency, Transparency International, World Bank, World Bank/IMF annual meetings, World Vision 2 Comments

March 18th, 2011 - 5:25 am § in Reflection & Rumination

Nothing to Offer

In the wake of such tragedy in Japan, let us never forget the long-term, slow-moving disasters of poverty, inequality and injustice around the rest of the world, where funding IS readily needed. [...]

Tags: aid workers, community-based organizations, disaster relief, emergency relief, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding, fundraising, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Japan, Malawi, NGOs, tsunami, Zambia, Zimbabwe 10 Comments

November 17th, 2010 - 10:07 pm § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination

161 Indicators, and then what?

1 country, 7 districts, 7 INGOs, $5 million and…161 indicators. Let’s aim for proportional expectations so we ensure monitoring and evaluation is a tool for learning and improvement, not just policing.[...]

Tags: aid workers, alternatives, capacity building, community participation, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, indicators, INGOs, international aid, international development, Lesotho, logframe, M&E, Malawi, monitoring, Most Significant Change, outcome mapping, philanthropy, RCTs, The Good Enough Guide, Zambia 10 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.[...]