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Posts Tagged ‘social change’
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 27th, 2012 - 9:15 am § in Poetry Pause
Friday’s Poetic Pause: “Capacity Gap”
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Capacity Gap” by yours truly. [...]
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 9 Comments
December 14th, 2011 - 8:34 am § in Reflection & Rumination
A tale of two realities
Only one of the Washington D.C. aid industry events I attended yesterday got us closer to fixing the problems that continue to plague and perplex us.[...]
Tags: accountability, aid effectiveness, aid industry, aid partnerships, community ownership, donors, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, international aid, international development, M&E, monitoring, ownership, Oxfam, Oxfam America, risk management, SID Washington, social change, Society for International Development 3 Comments
October 5th, 2011 - 7:34 am § in Reflection & Rumination
What’s missing from the aid effectiveness debate? Overlooking the capacity of local organizations
Are we overlooking the capacity of local NGOs? My guest post on The Broker Online argues that rather than being the lowest common denominator of international assistance, local indigenous organizations should be regarded as the fundamental unit of effective development aid.[...]
Tags: accountability, Accra Agenda for Action, alternatives, Arab Spring, Busan, Center for Global Development, Chet Tchozewski, climate change, community participation, community-based organizations, complexity, conflict, food crisis, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, GlobalGreengrants, grassroots organizations, HIV/AIDS, international aid, international development, NGOs, Oxfam, Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, poverty, power dynamics, Rajiv Shah, Robert Zoellick, social change, social movements, Somalia, South Africa, Todd Moss, USAID, WiserEarth, women’s groups, World Bank 4 Comments
February 3rd, 2011 - 12:34 pm § in Good Practice
Revisiting the Wheel: Insights from Online Community Managers
Ideas, challenges and insights from managers of online communities related to international development shared with us as we develop The Barefoot Guide Online Community.[...]
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.[...]
Tags: accountability, aid workers, alternatives, capacity building, community participation, community-based organizations, complexity, DIY aid, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, GlobalGreengrants, grassroots organizations, HIV/AIDS, international aid, international development, JLICA, Malawi, Namibia, NGOs, Nicholas Kristof, organizational development, power dynamics, Robert L. Woodson, social change, social movements, South Africa, Uganda, UNICEF, voluntourism, WiserEarth 21 Comments
A New Discipline for Development Practitioners
Organizational development is a discipline that needs to become more central to the practice of the development sector as a whole, not just a small professional enclave. [...]
Tags: ActionAid, aid workers, alternatives, CDRA, civil society organizations, Community Development Resource Association, community-based organizations, complexity, crisis, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, NGOs, organizational development, organizational learning, Oxfam, partnership, power dynamics, social change, social movements, South Africa, sovereignty, The Barefoot Guide, values, VSO 4 Comments
September 9th, 2010 - 6:25 am § in Good Practice
Online Communities for International Do-Gooders
A compiled (and growing) list of online communities related to international development and assistance[...]
Tags: aid workers, Boston, community organizing, conflict resolution, foreign aid, foreign assistance, gender mainstreaming, grassroots organizations, human rights, international aid, international development, LinkedIn, M&E, Malawi, MIT, networks, non-governmental organizations, online communities, outcome mapping, peacebuilding, peer-to-peer exchange, relief, research, social change, social entrepreneurship, social media, virtual community, wikis 31 Comments
