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Waiting for Pennies from Heaven
Big money is on the table. $2.5 billion here. $40 billion there. This week it’s SoCap. Last week it was the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. And how can we forget the hulabaloo of the Millenium...
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Dipping into the reading pile
If you’re like me, you have a pile of all the reports, articles, and publications that you’re aiming to get to. And from time to time, I take pleasure in dipping in to explore the new thinking or sound...
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Welcome new GAVI CEO! You’ve got quite a task ahead!
A new charismatic CEO, Dr. Seth Berkley will soon take up his position with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) Alliance, the aim of which is to save children’s lives and protect...
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World Bank and IMF, Don’t Just Develop Capacity – Unleash It
The World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings start this week. My colleague, Tom Grubisich and I have put together a panel during the Civil Society Policy Forum entitled, “Winds of Change: Will it bring a new...
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Remembering George Harrison on the road to Busan
After sharing some development practitioners’ honest remarks on aid, Africa, corruption and colonialism last week, I thought I would also share key points made in a session hosted by Oxfam that I...
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The Curious Aid Worker: Storytelling with Marc Maxson (Part II)
For the last three years, Marc Maxson has been working with GlobalGiving to help them understand what difference the 4,500 locally-based projects that their fundraising platform supports make at the...
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Waiting for Pennies from Heaven
In honor of this week’s Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting, I’m reposting this from early October last year. The issues remain the same; the fundraising resources for local organizations still...
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What’s missing from the aid effectiveness debate? Overlooking the capacity of...
Check out my post today on The Broker Online, “What’s missing from the aid effectiveness debate? Overlooking the capacity of local organizations“, in which I argue that rather than being the lowest...
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#111: Milestones and Mountains Left to Climb
The leader of a former grantee organization I used to work with in Rwanda asked me last month: “Since you started [how-matters.org], can you see any impact around advocated issues? Any results to...
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Not your usual listening exercise: 6000 people’s perceptions of aid delivery
Guest post by Mike Keller, a self-described aid agnostic. When a friend recently pointed my attention to Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid, a “book” by an...
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