Interesting debates, articles, and guidelines – early April
Posted on April 17, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Development blogs you should read - Owen Abroad – happy to note that this blog is included in the list
Reality Check 'Extreme Makeover' Show Downsizes its Dreams – Wall Street Journal – talks about how recipients of extreme makeover houses often cannot maintain them.
Easy – Blood and Milk – talks about the need to be easy to have a career in international development
Mind Over Media – Tales from the Hood – Talks about the need to use the interest in Haiti to help educate donors
The Heartache of the Failed Hail Mary – Stanford Social Innovation Review - six signs of a failing nonprofit
People, not Characters from Texas in Africa – discusses how we portray people
Is Recent Earthquake Activity Unusual? Scientists say No – USGS
Debates:
Microfinance
Banks Making Big Profits From Tiny Loans – NYT
Microfinance Groups, Feeling Misunderstood, Misunderstand Research – David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
Microfinance Impact 101 – Kiva
Kiva Grapples with Research on Impacts – David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
The fungibility of health aid funding
Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systemic analysis – The Lancet – the article that started the debate
Should we worry about fungibility of health aid? – Owen Abroad
Does health aid to governments make governments spend more on health? – Aid Watch
The Great Aid-Shifting Game - Global Poverty
Squishy Findings on Aid Fungibility – David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
Aid to Health Sector is Fungible. Is that a problem? – UN Dispatch – written by Alanna Shaikh
The fungible and the furious – Aid Thoughts
Fungibility and Sloppy Thinking – Owen Abroad
Guidelines:
ALNAPs Innovations Case Studies - "showcases innovative solutions to problems faced in humanitarian responses."
ALNAP lesson paper 'Responding to Earthquakes' draws lessons from earthquake responses over 30 yrs available in Mandarin
A Reporters Guide to U.S. Global Health Policy – Kaiser Family Foundation
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