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Burying criticism
Chris Blattman thinks that NGOs are atrocious in the way they bury criticism. This was his opinion given in response to a paper showing NGOs were twice as likely to want to work with outside, independ… more →
Bottom Up Thinking
Burying criticism
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wrote 1 month ago: Chris Blattman thinks that NGOs are atrocious in the way they bury criticism. This was his opinion g … more →
On whose behalf do they speak?
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wrote 3 months ago: How Matters recently featured a guest post by Scott Fifer on the need to listen to local leaders, es … more →
Standing on your head
wrote 8 months ago: The pioneers of community-based natural resources management framed it firmly within the bottom up a … more →
How enterprising is your social enterprise?
wrote 10 months ago: So the SOCCKET ball is the latest incredibly dumb development idea to get the treatment from the blo … more →
Inflexion points
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wrote 1 year ago: Various thoughts have collided in my head over the last week concerning value for money* in tropical … more →
How many NGOs do we need?
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wrote 1 year ago: Around this time of year one sees lots of ‘Away On Vacation’ signs up on blogs. Alas the reason for … more →
When “on the ground” is actually thin air
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wrote 1 year ago: The REDD desk lists such “on the ground” initiatives as national REDD strategies and funding proposa … more →
Learning by Doing
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wrote 1 year ago: Kudos to Owen Barder who has no lesser a dignitary on his Development Drums podcast than Tony Blair. … more →
Who you gonna call?
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wrote 1 year ago: Ghostbusters: just more likeable than the Federal Bureau of Exorcism. Musing further on my pos … more →
The Scaling-up Fallacy
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wrote 1 year ago: Last month Justin Sandefur at CGD lamented the regrettable failure of the Kenyan government to susta … more →
CI’s Defence
wrote 2 years ago: Conservation International have hit back at their accusers over the ‘scandal’ of their engagement wi … more →
CI screws up
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wrote 2 years ago: I couldn’t ignore the big scandal about Conservation International’s apparent willingness to greenwa … more →
In defence of BINGOs
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wrote 2 years ago: Chris Blattman recently posted as to why he thought Ben Affleck could possibly be “Congo’s best inte … more →
Small is Beautiful
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wrote 2 years ago: J over at the Tales from the Hood blog has recently been reminding us about how important profession … more →
Dealing with Criticism
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wrote 2 years ago: I promised a response to GL’s guest post on how conservation NGOs respond to criticism, and here it … more →
How do conservation NGOs respond to criticism?
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wrote 2 years ago: I am pleased to present my first guest post. The author is as anxious to conceal their identity as I … more →
Exit stage left
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wrote 2 years ago: Apparently Amref are struggling to see through their exit strategy in northern Uganda; ‘volunteer’ h … more →
Calendar Blag
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wrote 2 years ago: This in an email just in from one of our BINGO partners: “[BINGO Country Office] is making our annua … more →
Accountable to who?
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wrote 2 years ago: Accountability is a big thing in development these days. Mostly this is in relation to governments ( … more →
