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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 16:46:31 -0500
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"Transparency will give people the tools they need to question their
governments and the behavior of companies.
It also allows governments to demonstrate to their communities if
they have a good deal in place, or encourage citizens to push their
governments for a better deal."
— James Royston, advocacy officer at Publish What You Pay
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DEVELOPMENT BUZZ
IRD off the hook?
By Molly Anders
Accusations of corruption and financial misconduct — in any business,
but perhaps especially in the global development and humanitarian
aid business — are often seen as a black and white issue in the court
of public opinion.
If the executives of a global nonprofit are doling out baseball
game tickets, retreats and heady bonuses, often among themselves, the
assumption is that they must not be reducing poverty and increasing
shared prosperity correctly or effectively.
Last week when the U.S.
Agency for International Development lifted its suspension against
nonprofit International Relief and Development, I was surprised to
find myself typing the words into a headline.
Most everyone I'd spoken to — from objective law firms to former
officials of now-defunct nonprofits — had predicted the exact
opposite.
IRD would go the way of the dodo, they said.
Or rather, IRD would go the way of the Academy of Educational
Development, which was debarred in 2010 for financial misconduct and
absorbed by the nonprofit now known as FHI 360.
But IRD — for the moment, at least — lives on to fight another day.
The events behind its survival are remarkable, but somewhat diluted
by the strong public vitriol for IRD.
This, after all, is an organization that, under founder Arthur Keys
Jr.'s leadership, produced a lot of ill feeling, financial shade and
more than its fair share of disgruntled ex-employees (many of whom
you'll find contributing to the comments section of IRD-related
articles).
What's lost in the fray is what IRD's suspension and resulting lawsuit
has spurred at the agency: change.
READ more ON DEVEX.COM |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
On a roll
This technology promises to make it easier for women and men across
Africa to carry more water in less time.
Get the full picture and share your own with us on Facebook.
#INNOV8AID
Can a new management tool help businesses align to SDGs?
Novozymes, a global biotech company, is designing a assessment and management
tool as part of an effort to align business priorities with the
sustainable development goals.
The tool, which the company plans to share, helps track impacts and
identify business opportunities aligned with solving the global
challenges laid out in the SDGs.
READ MORE ON DEVEX.COM
VUVUZELA
Sounding off on the results agenda in development
What's your take on the results-based aid agenda? For the United
Kingdom's aid watchdog, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, the
results agenda pursued by the U.K.
Department for International Development needs a rethink.
In an exclusive guest commentary for Devex, Craig Valters, a research
officer for politics and governance at the Overseas Development
Institute, said that current understanding of the results agenda "is
dangerously unrealistic, time-consuming and misleading." He suggested
a few ways to remedy
that.
"The public don't want patronizing accounts of aid, but an honest
appraisal of what's being achieved and for what purpose," Valters
said.
"If the demand for results is genuine, we need more genuine
attempts to answer it."
Here's what Devex readers think about the results agenda.
Read more and join the conversation!
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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 16:46:31 -0500
From: info@devex.com
To: georgeokello_8@hotmail.com
Subject: Good news for 'bad behavior'?
To view this email as a web page, click here
To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add info@devex.com to your
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July 2, 2015
QUOTABLE
"Transparency will give people the tools they need to question their
governments and the behavior of companies.
It also allows governments to demonstrate to their communities if
they have a good deal in place, or encourage citizens to push their
governments for a better deal."
— James Royston, advocacy officer at Publish What You Pay
Be the first to see and share each week's Quotable by liking Devex on Facebook
DEVELOPMENT BUZZ
IRD off the hook?
By Molly Anders
Accusations of corruption and financial misconduct — in any business,
but perhaps especially in the global development and humanitarian
aid business — are often seen as a black and white issue in the court
of public opinion.
If the executives of a global nonprofit are doling out baseball
game tickets, retreats and heady bonuses, often among themselves, the
assumption is that they must not be reducing poverty and increasing
shared prosperity correctly or effectively.
Last week when the U.S.
Agency for International Development lifted its suspension against
nonprofit International Relief and Development, I was surprised to
find myself typing the words into a headline.
Most everyone I'd spoken to — from objective law firms to former
officials of now-defunct nonprofits — had predicted the exact
opposite.
IRD would go the way of the dodo, they said.
Or rather, IRD would go the way of the Academy of Educational
Development, which was debarred in 2010 for financial misconduct and
absorbed by the nonprofit now known as FHI 360.
But IRD — for the moment, at least — lives on to fight another day.
The events behind its survival are remarkable, but somewhat diluted
by the strong public vitriol for IRD.
This, after all, is an organization that, under founder Arthur Keys
Jr.'s leadership, produced a lot of ill feeling, financial shade and
more than its fair share of disgruntled ex-employees (many of whom
you'll find contributing to the comments section of IRD-related
articles).
What's lost in the fray is what IRD's suspension and resulting lawsuit
has spurred at the agency: change.
READ more ON DEVEX.COM |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
On a roll
This technology promises to make it easier for women and men across
Africa to carry more water in less time.
Get the full picture and share your own with us on Facebook.
#INNOV8AID
Can a new management tool help businesses align to SDGs?
Novozymes, a global biotech company, is designing a assessment and management
tool as part of an effort to align business priorities with the
sustainable development goals.
The tool, which the company plans to share, helps track impacts and
identify business opportunities aligned with solving the global
challenges laid out in the SDGs.
READ MORE ON DEVEX.COM
VUVUZELA
Sounding off on the results agenda in development
What's your take on the results-based aid agenda? For the United
Kingdom's aid watchdog, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, the
results agenda pursued by the U.K.
Department for International Development needs a rethink.
In an exclusive guest commentary for Devex, Craig Valters, a research
officer for politics and governance at the Overseas Development
Institute, said that current understanding of the results agenda "is
dangerously unrealistic, time-consuming and misleading." He suggested
a few ways to remedy
that.
"The public don't want patronizing accounts of aid, but an honest
appraisal of what's being achieved and for what purpose," Valters
said.
"If the demand for results is genuine, we need more genuine
attempts to answer it."
Here's what Devex readers think about the results agenda.
Read more and join the conversation!
SPONSORED ANNOUNCEMENT
Register now: Online certificate course on practicum in knowledge management
Have you wondered why your team isn't using those helpful resources
you forward to them in an email? There is so much information out
there, and it is increasingly becoming difficult to capture and
incorporate it in your project.
Our digitally connected lives have made information increasingly
available to all, but how do you ensure that experiential knowledge
from the field feeds back into program design, or that best practices
from one project are shared with a similar project in another part of
the world? The growing
field of knowledge management provides a framework and introduces
tools to help practitioners improve knowledge flow and ultimately
development outcomes.
This course will provide an overview of the knowledge cycle by
focusing on skills and strategies to better generate, capture, share
and apply knowledge to development programs.
It will feature live interactive guest expert presentations with
leading knowledge management specialists and offer you a community of
practice leaders and online learning experts.
It will also include a unique, hands-on learning environment with
technology demos, practical activities, networking events, immersive
simulations and more.
Ultimately, participants will leave the course with an
understanding of the tools and techniques needed to effectively
design, deliver and evaluate knowledge management activities.
Use the discount code "DevexKM" by July 10 to get $50 off the listed
course price for our brand new Practicum in Knowledge Management
course.
Additional group discounts available by contacting info@techchange.org.
For more information and to register, please click here.
GDB - The Weekly Global Development Briefing for the Devex Community |
Copyright 2015 | Unauthorized commercial reapplication, reproduction
or retransmission, in whole or in part, is prohibited.
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NW, Washington, DC 20036 USA | Main +1.202.249.222 | Fax
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