It’s about time
How does commodified, scarcity-driven ideas of time inhibit our ability to learn and respond to a changing world?
Tag: INGOs
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.
Is there a better way for indigenous and international NGOs to work together?
Social Impact Incubator brings together creative collaborators in Burundi.
Grandpa, the Marshall Plan, and me
How has US foreign assistance funding changed over the last sixty years?
Not your usual listening exercise: 6000 people’s perceptions of aid delivery
A self-described aid agnostic shares his thoughts on CDA Collaborative Learning Project’s new book, “Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid.”
“Emotional and social well-being is not an afterthought”
Learn about what I and the team from REPSSI (The Regional Psychosocial Initiative, based in Joburg) has been up to this week in Washington D.C. at the XIX International AIDS Conference.
The Real Experts
An estimated 25,000 participants from more than 185 countries will assemble in Washington D.C. next week for the XIX International AIDS Conference. How many of them have cared for a dying neighbor or comforted a grieving child?
Bottlenecks and Dripfeeds: How much has changed?
Is a lack of humility on the part of the international aid community the real obstacle to creating more well-resourced funding mechanisms that reach grassroots organizations?
Accountability in all the wrong places
When we reduce accountability to abstract concepts or empty exercises that are, if we are honest, ultimately about reporting funding expenditures to donors, we miss the point.
A Second Dip into the Reading Pile
Sharing excerpts of twelve papers on international development and aid effectiveness from my reading pile.
Aid, Africa, Corruption, and Colonialism: An Honest Conversation
Highlighting key issues not often heard enough in aid effectiveness dialogues.
Got ‘Em: An Evaluation Story
The evaluation report was scathing, but I felt honest. And given the sharing of the preliminary results, it should have hardly come as a surprise…But it did.
Trocaire: 10 things INGOs need to do
Excerpt from Trocaire’s report, Leading Edge 2020: Critical Thinking on the Future of International Development.