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Here’s your Saturday morning reading on Wiki Development, principles for doing development education differently, why microfinance isn’t dead, a special report on Nigeria and why Oskar Schindler was the greatest aid worker of all times. 1. Wiki Development – Survey Ever found yourself having to Google multiple sources in order to find out how to do your job in the sector? Wish there was a …
Here’s your Saturday Morning Reading… 1. Why Technology Hasn’t Delivered More Democracy | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2. Violence against development | 59 minutes of development 3. What future for Development Advocacy? Three Paradoxes and Seven Directions | Paul O’Brien – From Poverty to Power 4. If I ran the innovation zoo | Linda Raftree – Wait… What? 5.a) How NOT to respond to bad press: …
Here’s your very belated (again) Saturday morning reading… 1. Things to remember as you volunteer or conduct research in a developing country this summer | Ken Opalo – An Africanist Perspective The summer volunteering season is here (judging by the number of people arriving in Zanzibar at least!) Ken’s top advice: Be respectful, work with the grain, …
Here’s your very belated “Saturday morning” reading (due to an impromptu weekend in Nairobi)… 1. National Development vs Poverty Reduction, in charts | Lee Crawford – Roving Bandit “Projects to increase an individual’s income in developing countries can help people get a better livelihood amongst those available in that country, but they probably aren’t going to change the overall set of opportunities facing …
Here’s your Saturday morning reading on aidworker well-being, the Hippocratic Oath and technology leapfrogging in India… 1. Why We Dev with Alessandra Pigni: Staff care, burnout & more | WhyDev Alessandra, an experienced humanitarian worker, clinical psychologist, and academic researcher studying aid workers’ mental health and well-being, answers your questions. She discusses how to shift an organisation’s culture to think about wellness, …
Here’s your (Satur)Sunday morning reading on the Gates Foundation and the SDGs, complexity and development and how to shift the debate on taking care of ourselves as aid workers… 1. Bill, Melinda, and the SDGs | Alex Evans – Global Dashboard The SDGs were reportedly repeatedly ridiculed at a recent Gates Foundation meeting. Alex Evans suggests that this could …
Here’s your Saturday morning reading (because you need to read something that isn’t about the election). This week’s edition features the future of (beyond) aid, the data revolution, an attack on advocacy, shock tactics in NGO messaging, how to make it easier to give effectively and some answers to why the number of poor people …
Here’s your (very brief) Saturday morning reading… 1. The Economic Revolution Will Be Gendered | Hewlett Foundation 2. Burundi on the Brink – NYTimes.com 3. Nepal earthquake: tough decisions in the face of disaster – Save the Children UK 4. How can grassroots aid programmes influence the wider system? | Erinch Sahan – From Poverty to Power
Time for #41. Here’s your Saturday morning reading, in which we learn how we can challenge the power of the few, make realistic promises, have nuanced stories that put the poor as the protagonists, make grand ethical theories about the shamefulness of barriers to migration and then get screwed over by Katie Hopkins. 1. How can …
Here’s your Saturday morning reading featuring development reformers, change on a biblical scale, sexual harassment in Bangladesh, engaging with Nigel Farage, a cartoon on plunder in South Sudan, empowering people to advocate for themselves and resettling Syrian refugees… The mistakes made by most development reformers | Chris Blattman This, along with the interview with Dani …