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What is our true job?
Who will revolutionize the development industry? It’s those who eyes, ears, and voice are devoted to empowering people in the developing world to find solutions to their own problems. It’s those with a...
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This video by Water for People demonstrates why how matters on this Blog Action Day 2010 for access to clean water. When “solutions” are delivered to disadvantaged people without sufficient thought...
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Aid, Africa, Corruption, and Colonialism: An Honest Conversation
I’m sharing an interesting discussion that’s been going on via the LinkedIn Africa NGO Network group, “Why is development aid having corruption problems in Africa generally?“. Some of the key...
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Spotting community ownership: A reminder
These days I spend more of my time talking country ownership than community ownership, but they are one in the same, just at different units of analysis. So reposting a part of “Spotting Community...
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What happens when the crisis dries up?
Unkonda Rasheda Sawyer blogs at internationalesawyer.wordpress.com. I started working for Plan International in Burkina Faso in 2012 at the exact moment that the crisis in Mali (which shares a close...
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Helping hands, ignoring demands: The contemporary approach to development?
A guest post by Jose Javier Lanza We were to construct so-called “improved ovens” for a small village atop a mountain in an area called Ojojona. This was one of our assignments in a Habitat for...
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3 ideas for making locally-led aid responses a reality
A guest post by Steven A. Zyck In many instances, humanitarian action benefits when it involves local responders who know the situation on the ground and who remember what worked or didn’t during the...
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#ICYMI: “Farms, Fish Banks, and an Iron Roof” on The Moth
All of the storytellers in this hour of one of my favorite podcasts, The Moth, are New Voices Fellows from the Aspen Institute. I had the pleasure of hearing these stories when they were recorded in...
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Five years in the making
This is how it began… From: JENNIFER LENTFER Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:29 PM Subject: invitation to join “Small is Big” Writing Collaborative< To: Tanya Cothran Dear Tanya, As people making small...
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It’s the end of foreign aid as we know it, and I feel fine
A Foreign Policy exclusive yesterday outlined the Trump administration’s budget proposal in March. Major implications to foreign aid include: slash aid to developing countries by over one-third folding...
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My conflicted relationship to “expertise”
Am I an expert? Are you? I became a published author last year, while working for Thousand Currents and while teaching young and evolving social change makers in the University of Vermont Masters of...
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