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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 14 Comments

September 3rd, 2010 - 4:29 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

The Carpenters and the Rude Man

How many times had I been him? Just wanting to get through to the next stage to achieve those ever-elusive results? Demonstrating my own ignorance and intolerance? Wreaking havoc and unleashing anger as a result?[...]

Tags: colonialism, foreign aid, foreign assistance, international aid, international development, liberation, Malawi, peacebuilding, power dynamics, respect, solidarity 2 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 15 Comments

August 20th, 2010 - 2:49 pm § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers

Rethinking Trust, by Ben Ramalingam

Trust is regularly cited as a critical factor in effective aid organizations and is seen as essential for partnerships. But all too often trust is mentioned as if it can simply be designed, imposed and managed.[...]

Tags: aid organizations, aid workers, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, international aid, international development, Paris Declaration, power dynamics, trust, U.N., voluntourism 2 Comments

August 18th, 2010 - 12:06 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

Changing the aid system: 5 more ideas from the inside

A continuing list of 5 more ideas for changes in international development policy and practice. "Development policy needs to be kept real."[...]

Tags: aid workers, alternatives, Azerbaijan, bureaucracy, community participation, community-based organizations, conditionalities, dependency, donors, DRC, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Global Fund, ideas, innovation, international aid, international development, OECD, Palestine, PEPFAR, power dynamics, Red Cross, solutions, South Africa, U.N., USAID 2 Comments

August 17th, 2010 - 12:37 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

Changing the aid system: 5 ideas from the inside

We all know it’s easier to identify problems and critique. Here’s a starting list of 5 ideas for changes in international development policy and practice. [...]

Tags: aid workers, alternatives, bureaucracy, cash transfers, community participation, community-based organizations, dependency, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, Global Fund, ideas, innovation, international aid, international development, Malawi, Mozambique, OVC, Pakistan, PEPFAR, power dynamics, Rwanda, solutions, South Africa, Swaziland, USAID, Zimbabwe 6 Comments

August 13th, 2010 - 3:08 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

Our Most Important Job

“The kids in Africa were soooo amazing and so darn cute.” And so, the smoke poured out of my ears before I could even have my morning coffee.[...]

Tags: aid workers, AIDS orphans, community participation, compassion, dependency, do no harm, foreign aid, foreign assistance, international aid, international development, J.B. MacKinnon, local leadership, orphanage, poverty, power dynamics, racism, South Africa, stoves, Uganda, voluntourism, Zimbabwe 8 Comments

August 5th, 2010 - 8:43 pm § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination

Development Aid 2.0

My personal list of raw ideas that helps me contrast what I consider to be “old school development” and the long overdue emergence of alternatives to "business as usual” in foreign assistance.[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, alternatives, Andrew Natios, bureaucracy, capacity building, Community Development Resource Association, community participation, community-based organizations, compassion, crowdsourcing, Development Aid 2.0, disaster relief, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, grantmaking, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, organizational development, Pankaj Mishra, Paul Hawken, Peace Corps, power dynamics 8 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 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?[...]

Tags: academia, aid workers, AIDS, community participation, compassion, dependency, economic opportunity, education, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, good governance, grassroots organizations, HIV, India, international aid, international development, Karen Armstrong, Kenya, power dynamics, South Africa, U.N., United Nations 4 Comments

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