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Posts Tagged ‘organizational development’

February 1st, 2012 - 8:00 am § in Good Practice

What changes as an organization gets stronger?

Sharing sixteen elements of an organization that change as it gets stronger. By Phil Bartle, PhD.[...]

Tags: Aaron Ausland, capacity building, civil society, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, good practice, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, NGOs, non-governmental organizations, organizational change, organizational development, Phil Bartle, social change 4 Comments

January 23rd, 2012 - 7:00 am § in Guest Bloggers

Has aid lost its humanity?

“Development work had become more about systems and structures than the actual lived realities of people,” argues Mette Müller, founder of Best Self Experience. Can important concepts like 'empathy', 'understanding' and 'compassion' enter the way we deliver aid?[...]

Tags: accountability, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Best Self Experience, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, compassion, donors, empathy, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, intuitive healing, Kenya, Mette Müller, organizational development, philanthropy, social change, social enterprise, Tanzania 7 Comments

January 16th, 2012 - 11:53 am § in Reflection & Rumination

Poverty here, poverty there

How do our perceptions of the poor in our own country influence how we think about the poor in the rest of the world? My reflections on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, Barbara Ehrenreich, C-SPAN, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, Cornel West, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grantmakers, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Jeffrey Sachs, Jr., Majora Carter, Michael Moore, organizational development, PBS, philanthropy, racism and development, Remaking America: From Poverty to Prosperity, Roger A. Clay, social enterprise, Suze Orman, Tavis Smiley, Vicki Escarra 4 Comments

January 3rd, 2012 - 11:00 am § in Uncategorized

12 to watch in 2012

How-matters.org’s top 12 people, trends, sites, and organizations to watch in 2012![...]

Tags: African Diaspora, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Akili Dada, capacity building, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, hiiDunia, international aid, international development, M&E, Mathare Valley blog, monitoring and evaluation, organizational development, philanthropy, Re-Action, social enterprise, Solome Lemma, Sparks Microgrants, The Broker Online, The Listening Project, USAID, USAID FORWARD, whydev.org, WiserEarth.org 9 Comments

November 27th, 2011 - 3:00 pm § in Guest Bloggers

Letting the snark flow

Does snark among aid bloggers go too far? I share this guest post by Orietta L’Abbate, CEO of the Association Amis des Enfants de l’ile de la Gonâve in Haiti, in an attempt to even the score.[...]

Tags: aid bloggers, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Association Amis des Enfants de l’ile de la Gonâve, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, disaster management, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, international aid, international development, local activists, organizational development, relief and recovery, snark 2 Comments

November 8th, 2011 - 8:23 am § in Good Practice

Mentoring Among Local Organizations—Here’s How!

As an informal practice or a formal program, mentoring is a tool that organizations can use to nurture and grow their programs, systems and people. Sharing guidelines to make them successful![...]

Tags: capacity building, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, mentoring relationships, mentorship, NGOs, organizational change, organizational development, peer support, technical assistance 7 Comments

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 19th, 2011 - 8:20 pm § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers

How would you measure the strength of a partnership?

Ruiari Nolan of Peace Direct offers the following guest post, sharing their experience of trying to determine what is important in relationships with grassroots organisations, and how they’re trying to measure performance in this area. [...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid partnerships, aid relationships, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, Insight on Conflict, Institute for Cultural Affairs, international aid, international development, Keystone INGO Partner Survey, M&E, monitoring, organizational development, participatory processes, Peace Direct, peacebuilding, Ruairi Nolan, spider diagram, transparency, Uganda 1 Comment

October 18th, 2011 - 2:50 am § in Guest Bloggers

Can allies help Palestinians to reform aid? How?

Nora Lester Murad of the Dalia Association, Palestine’s first and only community foundation, shares their progress in a current advocacy campaign to reform international aid in Palestine and poses questions to how-matters.org readers.[...]