Sarahโs Trust
Principled aid index
…and global division, when the costs of disunity could not be higher. The Index examines how 29 donor countries spend their foreign aid to pursue their long-term strategic interests in…
Evaluation training courses
…train staff on M&E. International development specific. Low to medium skills. Very well-recognised course on M&E in development field but cost and time considerations for small NGOs. Not in UK….
Smurfit Kappa Foundation
5 digital technologies that could radically transform development
…Blockchain technology Data as a service Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Ian and his colleague Leonie Pendred shared some examples from the report of these trends in action. An exciting AI…
Are country offices preventing us from decolonising development?
…is often framed as being a necessary part of the accountability of large complex organisations to their donors. However, the maintenance of country offices also reinforces power imbalances between INGOs…
The Community Of The Presentation Trust
DFID IATI guidelines
DFID has released 2 sets of overlapping guidelines. The Policy document outlines DFID’s ambition around transparency and the expectations DFID has of its partners. This document also provides an overview…
Lush Spring Prize
Devspeak: are the words we use doing more harm than good?
…vague as to be almost meaningless – something helpful to hide behind for those running ineffective programmes. Other forms of sector jargon have unnecessarily made their way into communications aimed…