My storify-ed livetweets from panel discussion on foreign policy & humanitarian aid efforts in Uganda & the Congo in response to the international media attention garnered by Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign. With Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo, Milton Allimadi of Black Star News, a[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Somalia’
April 14th, 2012 - 1:15 pm § in Uncategorized
Bigger than Kony: Livetweeting an Open Discussion
Tags: advocacy, awareness raising, Black Star News, Busboys and Poets, China, Congo, donors, DRC, Free South Africa movement, Friends of the Congo, Great Lakes region, humanitarian aid, international aid, International Criminal Court, international NGOs, Invisible Children, Juba peace talks, Kagame, Kony2012, local civil society, Maurice Carney, militarization, Milton Allimadi, Museveni, Nicole Lee, Northern Uganda, Operation Lightning Thunder, privilege, racism, Somalia, South Sudan, StopKony, TransAfrica Forum, Uganda No 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
