Rebuilding requires slowing down
“Institutions are not forever nor are organizations reliable in the way professionals have been prepared to believe.”
Tag: foreign aid
Longing for stability
“We try to do many things to create security, consistency, and reliability in our lives. And despite our best efforts, none of it is guaranteed.”
It’s the end of foreign aid as we know it, and I feel fine
Someone has to say it. Four reasons why I am Michael Stipe-ing a Foreign Policy headline and why I don’t think aid cuts are the end of the world.
Confessions of a recovering neocolonialist (reprise)
“They’re all a bunch of neocolonialists anyway.”
An uncomfortable silence fell upon the car.
White supremacy, black liberation, and global development: The conversations we’re not having
What does racial justice have to do with the international “do-gooder” industry?
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.
#HowMatters
You won’t find yogurt or a grizzly bear here. When we talk about #HowMatters, it’s about how well-intentioned people often fall short of changing the lives of the people they want to help.
Wanted: Films that illustrate how aid works
The Social Impact Media Awards 2014 is an international documentary and video competition that champions the stories of grassroots change-makers.
Don’t change the message. Change the messenger.
Weh Yeoh of whydev.org argues that everything that we do in development is about selling a message. But how do we convince people when a message goes against the grain of what they already believe?
The Carpenters and the Rude Man
How many times had I been him? Just wanting to get through to the next stage to achieve those ever-elusive results? Demonstrating my own ignorance and intolerance? Wreaking havoc and unleashing anger as a result?
13 thoughts for aid in 2013
As I was sitting in a year-end retreat, I started jotting down this list of things that the development aid world could use more of in 2013. I offer it as some food for thought for the year ahead.
Thoughtful Conversations & Sideways Approaches: The Barefoot Guide Connection
When I first picked up and started reading The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change almost four years ago, it was one of those strike-you-through-the-heart moments. Finally someone was talking about my role in aid.