Back in February, we announced a new initiative of ours – Peer Coaching. In a nutshell, we are partnering with Shana Montesol Johnson of Development Crossroads, to develop a peer coaching matching service. Since…

This is actually a call for help from anyone out there who might know something:

Have there been any studies, research, or other kind of systematic inquiry and analysis about 

a) the motivations of donors to give to charity, support NGOs, etc.?

b) the motivations of aid and development workers, social entrepreneurs (I know, it's a very vague term), do-gooders... ?

c) any comparison of the…

I decided to go freelance about 5 years ago. Well, not really. I went on maternity leave, and then back to work, and then back on (extended) maternity leave, and then I started getting work while on leave, and then I realized I kind of liked this half way house. I wasn’t happy being in the office and…

http://globaleducationdevelopment.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/sahel-role-of-education-before-during.html

http://globaleducationdevelopment.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/establishing-effective-partnerships-for.html

http://globaleducationdevelopment.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/review-of-unhcrs-education-strategy.html

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If you want to rock your career, you’ve got to play to your strengths. But to do that, first you have to figure out what they are. Here are 5 ways to identify your strengths.

I write, think, and coach a lot about the importance of playing to your strengths in order to have a career you love. By strengths, I mean an activity that meets the following criteria (hat tip to…

I have a sneaking submission that Aidsource members will like our latest post. ;)

By Allison Smith, Brendan Rigby & Weh Yeoh

In the romance stakes, aid workers often get a bad rap. In fact, recently over at On Motherhood and Sanity, we heard about 52 reasons why you shouldn’t date an aid worker. We love that…

Even though whydev brings a younger voice to issues and discussion around aid and development, it is rare that we have a chance to hear from a young person from Uganda. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing one of the most articulate and inspiring people I have ever met, Josephine Namirimu, who is a representative of Leonard Cheshire Disability’s Young Voices program. This program trains and brings…

(I just joined Aidsource, as well as started blogging, and thought I'd share an entry from a few weeks ago.  I hope you enjoy.)

For Burma watchers, the by-elections earlier this month were a stunning achievement.  Although most observers expected Aung San Suu Kyi to win her seat, and for her opposition party, the National League for Democracy, to pick up several more, the party's landslide…

Sharing a link to my storify-ed livetweets from last night's panel discussion on foreign policy and humanitarian aid efforts in Uganda and the Congo in response to the international media attention garnered by Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign. Panelists included Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo, Milton Allimadi of …

My last blog post, reflecting on our role as facilitators and supporting capacity building: http://bakingpowder4change.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/to-facilitate-or-not-to-facilitate/

I'd love to hear about your experiences...

CSO governance models are increasingly facing major challenges. These include that they are typically:

• dominated by national affiliates but increasingly challenged by the need for global decisions and their implementation; 
• shaped by Northern countries and cultures while the emerging powers in a multipolar world are located in the South; 
• serving one specific mission focused on development or environment or human rights while the interdependence of challenges…

I sit writing this post at my small desk, in the rapidly changing city of Tamale, northern Ghana (living in this city is like watching development occur). It is a simple room, furnished with both local and foreign amenities. A simple cupboard, a bed with mosquito net unused, a floral bed sheet for a curtain, an air conditioner used sparingly, a tea set, hauled from Beijing, China – my sanity and saving grace. A book on “Reading & Writing Chinese: Simplified Character Edition”. The Second…

I was on a really interesting conference call yesterday organized by CORE Group about how NGOs take and use photos. There were a ton of folks on the call and lots of interest on Twitter, so I blogged about it. Be nice to generate some conversations here also.

Here's my summary post of the meeting: On the ethics of photos in aid and development…

Andebo Pax Pascal shares his experience as an aid worker in Africa’s newest country in his second guest post.  By examining beneficiaries’ place (or lack thereof) in two projects, he explores whether the development discourse has drifted into the abstract, beyond those he serves.

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The idea of different categories of people--donors, government representatives,…