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![...]
Posts Tagged ‘social movements’
December 15th, 2011 - 6:30 am § in Reflection & Rumination
The Year Ends. The Pendulum Swings.
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
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
September 16th, 2011 - 6:46 am § in Poetry Pause
Friday’s Poetic Pause: “Give Us Our Peace” by Langston Hughes
How-matters.org's Friday feature! Sharing “Give Us Our Peace,” a poem by Langston Hughes, and featuring the poet, Daniel Carlton, who will be performing at Solar Sister's Illuminate Event in NYC on September 18th.[...]
August 19th, 2011 - 4:42 pm § in Poetry Pause
Friday’s Poetic Pause: “Query” by Akwasi Aidoo
A new Friday feature on how-matters.org! Sharing “Query,” a poem by Akwasi Aidoo, Executive Director of Trust Africa[...]
Tags: Africa, aid effectiveness, Akwasi Aidoo, capacity building, colonialism, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, developing countries, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, organizational development, social movements, Trust Africa, TrustAfrica No Comments
June 5th, 2011 - 4:36 pm § in Guest Bloggers
The Marginalization of CBOs by Development Actors: A Perspective from Zimbabwe
“NGOs tend to view CBOs in two ways: with suspicion and mistrust on the one hand, and as instruments for community organising and project implementation on the other.” Excerpt from a paper by Samuel Maruta, Southern Institute of Peace-building and Development, Zimbabwe.[...]
Tags: aid effectiveness, aid partnerships, aid workers, capacity building, community participation, community-based organizations, donor fatigue, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, NGOs, organizational development, partnership, social movements, Zimbabwe 11 Comments
May 25th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination
RCTs: Some “how matters” advice for donors
"Be smart about what RCTs cannot tell us. Allow space for the unseen, complex and long-term consequences of aid investments to be discovered through accompanying and complementary research methods."[...]
Tags: aid effectiveness, aid industry, aid workers, alternatives, applied research, behavioral economics, community-based organizations, Dean Karlan, development economics, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions, NGOs, power dynamics, randomized control trials, RCT4D, RCTs, social movements No Comments
May 24th, 2011 - 10:33 am § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination
RCTs and aid effectiveness: Much to be said
A compilation of recent posts and a tweet debate related to randomized control trials and aid effectiveness.[...]
Tags: Abhijit Banerjee, aid effectiveness, aid industry, aid workers, alternatives, applied research, behavioral economics, community-based organizations, Dean Karlan, development economics, donors, Esther Duflo, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions, NGOs, Poor Economics, power dynamics, randomized control trials, RCT4D, RCTs, social movements 7 Comments
May 24th, 2011 - 8:44 am § in Reflection & Rumination
RCTs: A band-aid on a deeper issue?
“We all want to see deeper thinking behind the doing. Where I think we differ is on some fundamental beliefs about what prevents this and what ails the aid industry overall.” A review of More Than Good Intentions: How a new economics is helping to solve global poverty[...]
Tags: aid effectiveness, aid industry, aid workers, alternatives, Amartya Sen, applied research, behavioral economics, community-based organizations, Dean Karlan, development economics, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions, NGOs, power dynamics, randomized control trials, RCT4D, RCTs, social movements 9 Comments
April 22nd, 2011 - 7:01 am § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination
Aid, Africa, Corruption, and Colonialism: An Honest Conversation
Highlighting key issues not often heard enough in aid effectiveness dialogues.[...]
Tags: accountability, aid effectiveness, aid policy, aid workers, colonialism, community participation, community-based organizations, corruption, dependency, diaspora, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, INGOs, international aid, international development, local expertise, local organizations, Nelson Mandela, NGOs, philanthropy, poverty, racism, social movements, transparency 16 Comments
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
