Two ideas to retire
Time to retire not just “empowerment” and “capacity building,” but the mindset and orientation that created them and are often still working underneath them.
Tag: aid partnerships
How are you avoiding reliance on expats, white saviours, and local masters?
Chris Wardle in Nepal shares his experience and approach. What are your solutions?
Does aid need a 12-step program?
Step 1: We admit we are powerless over a project-based mentality–that when we considered the changing world, our frameworks and tools as they had come to define us have become obsolete.
When an international NGO plans its obsolescence
How and why EveryChild prepares to hand over its assets to a global alliance of national civil society organizations.
How US foreign aid can support a locally-driven fight against corruption
4 new ways to think about foreign aid’s role in fighting corruption around the world.
Excuse a little shameless self-promotion
3 places where my voice in #globaldev discussions have appeared lately
What happens when the crisis dries up?
Exploring the state of employment and civil society once the international community and humanitarian aid are gone.
White, Western and Waist Deep
“You can’t build relationships on a pie chart or a graph.” Guest post by David Peck of SoChange
Want me to listen? Tell me a story.
What if the key building blocks of “story” were better understood, experienced, and then related to our day-to-day work in international aid?
It’s all about the layers, Justin!
Justin Timberlake got me thinking on that flight back from Johannesburg… How would aid partnerships change if real-time, on-the-ground data had the same value as aid dollars?
Site Visits: The Feedback You’ve Never Heard
Leaders from four African organizations sat down to give their “real”, though too-often-unheard insights on site visits from the perspective of the ones being visited.
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.
How would you measure the strength of a partnership?
Ruiari Nolan of Peace Direct offers the following guest post, sharing their experience of trying to determine what is important in relationships with grassroots organisations, and how they’re trying to measure performance in this area.
Effective aid: A matter of faith?
In many ways, my work is focused on unanswered questions. What is development? Does it necessarily improve the poor’s lives? What kinds of beasts live in Malawi and how does one get into the chicken coup?