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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

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 20th, 2011 - 11:46 am § in Good Practice

Waiting for Pennies from Heaven

Sharing a list of fundraising resources for community-based organizations in the developing world.[...]

Tags: AIDS, BOND UK, CGI2011, CIVICUS, Clinton Global Initiative, community-based organizations, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding flows, funding mechanisms, fundraising, Global Fund for Women, GlobalGiving, grassroots leaders, grassroots organizations, HIV, Idasa, international aid, international development, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, MDG Summit, millennium development goals, Resource Alliance, resource mobilization, Save the Children UK, SoCap2010 global poverty, Tearfund, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Uganda, Women Thrive Worldwide, World Bank 2 Comments

August 30th, 2011 - 11:12 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers

The Curious Aid Worker: Storytelling with Marc Maxson (Part II)

“If your general impression [is that most grassroots organizations are incapacitated], then you’ve been driving a white SUV through a village to get the ‘authentic’ feel of some project.” ~Marc Maxson of GlobalGiving’s Storytelling Project[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid partnerships, capacity building, cash transfers, Chewy Chunks, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, corruption, development jargon, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, GlobalGiving, grassroots organizations, HIV, human rights, international aid, international development, Kenya, knowledge management, Marc Maxson, neuroscience, NGOs, ODA, organizational development, qualitative data, remittances, social prosperity, storytelling, The Storytelling Project, Uganda, USAID, World Bank 3 Comments

April 25th, 2011 - 2:26 pm § in Uncategorized

Remembering George Harrison on the road to Busan

Live tweet transcript from Oxfam’s “The Road to Busan: Ensuring Citizens Drive Their Own Development” session at the World Bank/IMF spring meetings…and a Beatle sings about development?[...]

Tags: #RoadToBusan, Accra Agenda, aid effectiveness, aid reform, Barbara Lee, Brenda Killen, civic engagement, civil society, community participation, CSOs, Dalitso Kubalasa, donors, Dr. Sumara Kamara, foreign aid, foreign assistance, HLF4, IMF, InterAction, international aid, international development, Malawi, Malawi Economic Justice Network, Marisa Lago, NGOs, OECD, Oxfam, Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, Publish What You Fund, results, Sierra Leone, The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, transparency, Transparency International, World Bank, World Bank/IMF annual meetings, World Vision 2 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

April 4th, 2011 - 2:25 pm § in Guest Bloggers

Welcome new GAVI CEO! You’ve got quite a task ahead!

A new charismatic CEO for GAVI: Can he see through spin at global health cocktail parties? Get dirt under his fingernails to discover the real customers? Negotiate with pharma for lower prices? Get non-Gates donors to open their wallets? And all at the same time?[...]