CIVICUS Assembly 2012
I have again returned to the CIVICUS World Assembly this year after having last attended in 2010. Here is my blog post from that session. Many of the themes this [...]
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Sep 2012
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May 2012
Effective International Expansion and Scale-Up
I have been working for many years on issues surrounding international growth and outreach, and Scaling or Scale up. I have periodically posted different aspects of this work, but I [...]
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May 2012
Pooling Our Experiences
“Over 100 years of experience in facilitating social change in a global context”. That’s how many years we got when we quickly estimated our combined work. How to assess what [...]
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Apr 2012
Turning Challenges to Opportunities
With the closing of the Global Health Council (GHC) reactions have included shock/surprise and sadness. As it evolved over its almost 40 years, it became an important convener for the [...]
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Mar 2012
Systems Thinking
I don’t much like labels – perhaps because the work I do has never fallen neatly into any available labels. But one label I was recently given, I do quite [...]
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Feb 2012
The Value of Mentoring
The good folks at whydev.org are starting a peer coaching program for the international development community. That got me thinking recently about mentoring. One of my earliest mentors advised me [...]
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Jan 2012
Navigating Global Change
What skills, methods and tools will we need to navigate the choppy waters we are in and bring about transformative social change? I have just spent 3 days [...]
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Sep 2011
Working Together
One of the themes that came out of last week's discussions around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the need for more effective cross-sector partnerships. Although there are specific examples, they [...]
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Sep 2011
Reflecting on Corporate Social Responsibility
J. from Tales from the Hood is kicking off this week a “Aid Blog Forum” introducing different topics on a periodic basis. The initial topic is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) [...]
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Jul 2011
The Grand Challenge: Saving Lives through Collaboration
Although I generally don’t like Contests, they do exist, and sometimes participation is important. Earlier this year a partnership of the Gates Foundation, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USAID and [...]