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'Bricifying' International NGOs is Hard Work: The Challenges Facing Oxfam India
I spent last week trying to understand an intriguing experiment. About five years ago, Oxfam GB’s 'white men in shorts' left India, along with all the other Oxfam affiliates, and a new, completely...
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Youth at the Forefront of Anti-Corruption Movement
Jiwo Damar Anarkie from Indonesia is a young co-founder of the Future Leaders for Anti-Corruption (FLAC) a local NGO, and he uses storytelling and hand puppets to teach integrity to elementary school...
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Book Review: Knowledge, Policy and Power in International Development: A...
This review appears in the Evidence and Policy journal, where it is now available free online (after I protested about the scandalous, rip-off $30 they were charging). Or you can just read it here....
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Is Civil Society Uncivil?
Having worked with civil society engagement work at the World Bank for many years, it is not uncommon for colleagues to see me in the hallway and jokingly ask: “is civil society still acting uncivil?”....
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Campaigning and Complexity: How Do We Campaign on a Problem When We Don't...
Had a thought-provoking discussion on ‘influencing’ with Exfamer (ex Oxfam Australia turned consultant) James Ensor a few days ago. The starting point was an apparent tension between the reading I’ve...
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Will Midterm Evaluations Become the Dinosaurs of Development?
I argued a few months back that information we get from story-telling is fundamentally different to what we get from polls and surveys. If we can’t predict what’s coming next, then we have to...
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Campaigning on Hot v Cold Issues – What’s the Difference?
I recently began an interesting conversation with our new campaigns and policy czar, Ben Phillips, who then asked me to pick the FP2P collective brain-hive for further ideas. Here goes. The issue is...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Malala Wows Us...AgainHuffPost“She was shot point blank by the Taliban simply for wanting to go to...
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Please Steal these Killer Facts: A Crib Sheet for Advocacy on Aid,...
Regular FP2P readers will be (heartily sick of) used to me banging on about the importance of ‘killer facts‘ in NGO advocacy and general communications. Recently, I was asked to work with some of our...
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So You’ve Written the Research Report: What Else Do You Need to do to Ensure...
Remember the old days when you wrote a report, published it (perhaps with some kind of executive summary), did a couple of seminars and then declared victory and moved on? Social media have changed...
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Transformational fantasies, cumulative possibilities
Dreams die hard. I was on the road for much of last fall, talking about my new book– which promotes (as I put it in a recent piece in foreignpolicy.com), the virtues of modesty in our approach to...
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What explains advocacy success in setting global agendas? Comparing Tobacco v...
Oxfam researcher/evaluation adviser Uwe Gneitingintroduces a new set of case studies It’s an age-old puzzle – why do some advocacy and campaigning efforts manage to influence the political agendas of...
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Weekly wire: The global forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Refining advocacy assessment: reflections from practiceODI Efforts to assess advocacy – and thinking...
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A masterclass on cash transfers and how to use High Level Panels to influence...
One of the things I do in my day-a-week role at LSE is bring in guest lecturers from different aid and development organizations to add a whiff of real life to the student diet of theory and academia....
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What kind of evidence might persuade people to change their minds on refugees?
Oxfam Humanitarian Policy Adviser Ed Cairns reflects on using evidence to influence the treatment of refugees. Who thinks that governments decide what to do on refugees after carefully considering the...
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