Grandpa, the Marshall Plan, and me
How has US foreign assistance funding changed over the last sixty years?
Tag: The Listening Project
Moving day: An aid analogy
What does it feel like to be a citizen on the receiving end of international aid? An analogy to try to help international do-gooders understand.
Time to Listen? Time to address our organizational barriers
8 sets of questions on our organizations’ ability to be responsive to feedback
Time to listen? Time to address our personal barriers
6 things that inhibit our ability to listen to those on the receiving end of aid
Palestinian civil society leaders: Reinforce us, don’t replace us.
Grassroots civil society activists from Palestine discuss their experiences with international aid in this Special Mention Award Winner of the Social Impact Media Awards.
Listening to local leaders: Just more data points?
By making the argument that local leaders have something we (organizations) need from them (information), we don’t yet overcome the centrality and the hierarchy with which aid organizations portray themselves in the global development equation.
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.”
The storm’s a-comin’
As we wait for Hurricane Sandy, not knowing exactly what’s coming, vulnerability has been on my mind—namely my own. What does this mean in our aid, philanthropy and social entrepreneurship worlds?
12 to watch in 2012
How-matters.org’s top 12 people, trends, sites, and organizations to watch in 2012!
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.
Friday’s Poetic Pause: “Ungrateful”
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Ungrateful,” a poem by yours truly.
#111: Milestones and Mountains Left to Climb
How-matters.org’s 111th post! Celebrating some results of the past year and sharing next steps!
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).
Listening to People on the Receiving End of Aid
Aid recipients “are more concerned about ‘how’ assistance is provided than how much is given.” Initial findings from The Listening Project, a systematic exploration of the insights of people who live in societies that have been on the recipient end of international assistance efforts.