Several years ago, USAID created a beautiful repository for all those progress reports, lessons learned reports, and technical studies that it generates: The Development Experience Clearinghouse. From its frontpage: USAID's Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) is the largest online resource for…
What do you do with your great idea of how to change the world? Do you keep it secrete while you try to figure out how to make it work as your project or do you tell everyone that you…
In sticking with the theme of why NGOs are not better at fostering internal capacity-building, I read the Mckinsey & Company entitled “Effective Capacity Building in Non-Profit Organizations” (August, 2001). The report was commissioned by Venture Philanthropy Partners as part…
Several years ago, a friend of mine< Wade Channell, wrote a paper for the Carengie Endowment entitled, “Lessons Not Learned: Problems with Western Aide for Post Communist Countries.”. The main ideas that I took away from the paper are that…