When people ask me why this farm-girl-turned-aid-worker has devoted herself to placing community-driven development initiatives at the forefront of aid, here’s why.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘social capital’
May 7th, 2012 - 3:00 pm § in Reflection & Rumination
The Case of the Missing Tomato Cages
Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, corruption, donors, downward accountability, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Local Champions, local leaders, organizational development, philanthropy, social capital, social enterprise 1 Comment
September 11th, 2011 - 10:00 am § in Good Practice
A Second Dip into the Reading Pile
Sharing excerpts of twelve papers on international development and aid effectiveness from my reading pile. [...]
Tags: aid workers, alternatives, Andrea Cornwall, Antal Miklós, Barbara Klugman, BOND, capacity building, Center for Evaluation Innovation, civil society, collective action, Community Development Resource Association, community managed disaster risk reduction, community participation, Cordaid, Deborah Eade, development jargon, disaster risk reduction, DRR, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, fundamentalism, Global Focus Aotearoa, grassroots initiatives, grassroots organizations, HIVOS, Horn of Africa, INGOs, InterAction, intermediate support organizations, international advocacy, international aid, international development, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, JeCCDO, Kelly Byrnes, Keystone Accountability, Management Systems International, NGO effectiveness, NGO performance, NGO transparency, NIDOS, organizational development, Oxfam, participatory democracy, pluralism, poverty definition, Practical Action Publishing, Ronelle Burger, Sierra Leone, social capital, social justice, The Innovation Journal, Trudy Owens, Uganda 1 Comment
August 2nd, 2010 - 9:16 pm § in Good Practice
Reuters: New report, model of best practice for aid world
For Camfed, governance is about...who controls resources, and where and to whom accountability lies within the communities it serves, said the report. It is also about the relationships and structures through which communities organise themselves.[...]
Tags: accountability, activism, AlertNet, alternatives, best practice, Camfed, Campaign for Female Education, community-based organizations, dependency, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Ghana, girls, governance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Linklaters, Malawi, MDGs, NGOs, operating standards, Reuters, social capital, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe 1 Comment
