Global Health Trends – 2013 Update
This is an update on the piece on Global Health Trends (Whither Global Health?) I wrote a little over two years ago. In addition to what I have been observing [...]
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Mar 2013
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Feb 2013
The Boundary of Age
This is a guest post by Kate Otto of Everyday Ambassador. My guest post on the same theme can be found on EA's site here. My name is Kate Otto, [...]
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Jan 2013
We’re All in this Together
Reading and thinking about Oxfam America’s new aid campaign and some of the reactions to it, made me think about the title of a song my kids used to listen [...]
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Jan 2013
Building Bridges
We seem to be in a period where there is a lot of talk (and indeed a fair amount of action) around ‘the need for change’ and ‘doing things differently’. [...]
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Oct 2012
Blog Action Day: The Power of WE
The theme of this year’s Blog Action Day is “The Power of WE - a celebration of people working together to make a positive difference in the world…” I’ve [...]
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Jul 2012
The Guiding and Nurturing of Governance
A task force that the Berlin Civil Society Center has working on ‘new models’ for international NGOs has me thinking about governance reviews. Having been involved with quite a number [...]
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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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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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Oct 2011
We are 7 Billion – what’s next?
Earlier this year I wrote about ‘awareness raising campaigns'. Although the 7 Billionth Person mark is not an awareness raising campaign per se, it has many of the same characteristics. [...]
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Oct 2011
Translating Complexity into Manageable Action
We live in an increasingly complex world, but to implement effective solutions, especially on any type of large scale, we need to have relatively simple approaches that a wide range [...]