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December 15th, 2011 - 6:30 am § in Reflection & Rumination

The Year Ends. The Pendulum Swings.

2011 has been a “shake-up” year for those involved in “flipping the aid system” to put more local and national actors in the driver’s seat of development. How-matters.org is shutting down until January 15th to reflect and plan for 2012![...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, Arab Spring, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, Devex, donors, Fahamu, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots grantmaking, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Kenya, NGOs, Occupy Movement, responsive grantmaking, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., small grants, social movements, The Chronicle on Philanthropy, Wall Street Journal 1 Comment

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 16th, 2011 - 12:50 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

#111: Milestones and Mountains Left to Climb

How-matters.org’s 111th post! Celebrating some results of the past year and sharing next steps![...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, capacity building, civil society, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, consultancy, consultant, DIY aid, donors, Duncan McNicholl, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, how-matters.org, Huffington Post, InterAction, international aid, international development, job search, LinkedIn, M&E, Monday Developments, monitoring, organizational development, Rwanda, small grants, SmartAid, The Broker Online, The Listening Project, World Bank 3 Comments

September 26th, 2011 - 10:30 am § in Good Practice

Oral Reporting with Grassroots Organizations—Here’s How!

Oral reporting is a way to decrease the reporting burden on local, grassroots organizations, while enabling grantees to “paint a fuller picture” of their work, accomplishments and challenges than the written word can often offer.[...]

Tags: capacity building, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, good practice, grantmaking, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, monitoring, NGOs, oral reporting, organizational development, philanthropy, small grants 4 Comments

April 10th, 2011 - 11:37 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

World Bank and IMF, Don’t Just Develop Capacity – Unleash It

An overview of the session, “Winds of Change: Will it bring a new development paradigm?" that will take place this week during the World Bank/IMF spring meetings. Join the webcast on Friday, April 15th at 2pm EST (6pm GMT).[...]

Tags: accountability, Accra Agenda, aid effectiveness, aid reform, Arab revolution, Arab uprisings, Busan, capacity building, Center for Global Development, CSOs, DataDyne, Dayna Brown, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Global Fund for Children, GlobalGiving.org, Heather Baser, IMF, international aid, international development, International Monetary Fund, Joel Selanikio, John Hecklinger, Middle East, NGOs, North Africa, Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, Robert B. Zoellick, small grants, social movements, Solome Lemma, The Listening Project, Todd Moss, Tom Grubisich, World Bank 3 Comments

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

February 24th, 2011 - 4:58 pm § in Good Practice

Would YOU fund this organization?

I received a report, exactly as it appears in this post, from a Zimbabwean organization. Only one question—if you were the grantmaker, would you fund them again? [...]

Tags: aid workers, capacity building, community participation, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grantmaking, international aid, international development, NGOs, orphans and vulnerable children, OVC, philanthropy, small grants, Zimbabwe 24 Comments

January 13th, 2011 - 6:26 am § in Good Practice

Small is Beautiful…Grants, That Is (Part 2)

When the level of community ownership of a program or organization is adequately established, a certain amount of trust can then be relied upon for accountability in a small grants scenario.[...]

Tags: accountability, aid effectiveness, alternatives, capacity building, civil society building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding applications, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, local leadership, local sovereignty, microgrants, NGOs, small grants, social movements, UN-WOMEN 22 Comments

January 10th, 2011 - 10:39 am § in Good Practice

Small is Beautiful…Grants, That Is (Part 1)

“We all want to support the kind of people whose good work would not stop if you paid them to quit. That’s what small grants can do best.” ~Chet Tchozewski, Global Greengrants Fund[...]