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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Mar 2012
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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 [...]
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Jun 2011
Impact without Boundaries
As we’ve been working to bring about significant social change, alleviate poverty, and face other challenges over the past few decades, we’ve separated ourselves into silos. We refer to: Non-governmental [...]
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Mar 2011
Moving a global program and alliance forward
In June of 2010 I wrote about the launch of the Helping Babies Breathe Global Development Alliance and then provided some updated information here in November and on the Global [...]
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Sep 2010
What’s all this talk about Millennium Development Goals?
In September 2000, 189 world leaders met at the United Nations and agreed on a roadmap setting out eight time-bound and measurable goals to address extreme poverty by 2015. These [...]
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Jun 2010
A really big dream takes its first steps to reality
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one million babies die each year from birth asphyxia (eg. inability to breathe immediately after delivery). A few years ago a group of [...]