Tag: community-led development
Keep going in (Part IV)
“How do we help people understand: you don’t have to cling, you don’t have to dominate, you don’t have to hide, you don’t have to confine yourself.” PART IV of interview with Onyango Otieno
Don’t stop believing (Part III)
“They made life a business. I didn’t want to stay in the market. I wanted to stay in a community.” PART III of interview with Onyango Otieno
So that we can see one another (Part II)
“We deserve equal time…We deserve equal measure of resources – just because we are here.” PART II of interview with Onyango Otieno
How to relate (Part I)
“I really love it when people connect to each other. Because it encompasses the idea that we need one another to make life work. We need one another.” PART I of interview with Onyango Otieno
Back home
“COVID-19 and the climate crisis are asking me to move towards everything that home offers.”
Swimming in the Sea of Conundrum
Initial reflections (and a poem) from the 2019 #ShiftThePower Symposium and how to continue the conversations going forward.
Sorry but it’s still not YOUR project
“Psst, excuse me, but if an international assistance project is a job or a hobby for you, it can’t actually be ‘yours.’ And if you think that it is, we may have a problem on our hands.”
What the U.S. resistance can’t imagine
Grassroots activists and organizations led by people in the Global South are already creating the future we can’t yet see.
The first assumption
How do our roles change if our first responsibility is to do justice to the vast and vital efforts of visionary leaders in the Global South?
Why I wrote about “smart risks” in philanthropy and why I would frame it differently now
What is so “risky” about placing relatively small amounts of money in the hands of people addressing challenges in their own communities?
Five years in the making
There is a growing number of small NGOs and foundations specializing in offering direct funding to grassroots leaders. And 20+ of them have come together to write a book!
Are NGOs missing the impact forest?
Impact truth lies in messy micro-nuances that determine whether target populations “vote” for interventions with their feet or wallets, argues guest blogger Michael Buckler of VillageX.