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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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For the disruptors
Here’s to the ones who ask “why” openly in meetings because they just can’t tolerate the façade of “doing good.” Here’s to the ones who ask “why” and are peppered with reactionary questions that reveal...
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Is there a better way for indigenous and international NGOs to work together?
A guest post by Dedo N. Baranshamaje, Segal Family Foundation‘s Burundi Country Director. Dedo N. Baranshamaje Twenty-two people sit in a room. No one is comfortable enough to talk louder than a...
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Social inclusion through the arts: An alternative to international development?
Interview and translation by Jose Javier Lanza. Bonnie Castañeda de Garcia, President of Women in the Arts (MUA) in Honduras Bonnie Castañeda de Garcia has dedicated decades of her life to the...
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White supremacy, black liberation, and global development: The conversations...
Below all of the talk of “evidence-based approaches” and “taking interventions to scale,” there is an undercurrent of disquiet. It happens when “local partners’ capacity” is maligned. It happens when...
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Confessions of a recovering neocolonialist (reprise)
Harare, 2002. The word came. Cash is in the banks. The three colleagues I was standing near at the moment the news came and I quickly jumped in the car. We had to get downtown to Standard Chartered as...
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Getting money to the ground, directly
This week CIVICUS’ Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah gave “Five reasons donors give for not funding local NGOs directly” on the Guardian Global Development Professionals Network. Luckily I see a growing...
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The Voting Box
A guest post by Rasha Sansur I am a rectangular medium sized cardboard box, wrapped in yellow paper with leaves decoration. The closet, my home, opens and I squint my eyes from spending hours in the...
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What I missed
During my annual “no social media” break, there of course were twelve great articles, editorials and announcements that deserve a share. Here they are in no particular order: Articles by individuals...
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