International Development
Blog: Revisiting the Wheel: Insights from Online Community Managers
The task was simple; Don’t reinvent the wheel.
It’s easier said than done, but this is what I attempted to do when I began working with the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA) in Cape Town to help conceptualize an online community.
Blog: Confessions of a Recovering Neocolonialist on Martin Luther King Day
Harare, 2002. The word came. Cash is in the banks. The three colleagues I was standing near at the time and I quickly jumped in the car to get downtown to Standard Chartered as soon as possible.
It was my first “real job” in the development sector after graduate school. I knew enough to know how little I knew, and little else.
Blog: Small is Beautiful…Grants, That Is (Part 1)
Larger-scale support of local initiatives, grassroots leadership and small, often “informal” movements is a key reform needed in the international development aid sector. I shared this view in a post entitled, “What’s missing from the DIY aid debate?
Blog: Ruminating on the Radio: Advice for International Volunteers & Aid Workers
Megan Schiebe of Travel Volunteer Search interviews Jennifer Lentfer of how-matters.org on blogtalkradio’s Global Humanitarian Discussions. You can listen to the 14-minute interview via the links below:
- blogtalkradio interview with Jennifer Lentfer (blogtalkradio site)
- Global Humanitarian Discussions Interview with Jennifer Lentfer (itunes)
Some paraphrased quotes from the interview:
“Our individual learning process of how we develop our role or calling as helpers is one of the most important parts of our effectiveness.”
“How do we struggle with the fact that helping is hard and that there aren’t any simple solutions to helping the poor?”
Blog: Spotting Community Ownership
The term “community-based” has been eroded. Just like “rights-based programming,” or “participation,” or “capacity building,” it has become over-used and thus less understood in the development sector.
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