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2+2=5 or 2+2=3? A question for African civil society
The millennium has everywhere been a time for focusing on optimistic ambitions for a better future, and Africa has been no exception. African leaders converted the Organization of African Unity into the African Union (AU) …
Government and third sector relationships in South Asia
South Asia’s fertile and accessible lands have attracted people from north, east and west for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, none of the three major countries in South Asia, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, has ever had …
Learning to give wisely
At the close of a workday in midtown Manhattan, a group of graduates of The Philanthropy Workshop, a Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored programme for budding philanthropists, recently gathered to reflect on their own learning experience and the …
Keeping lines of communication open in the Middle East
As the world moves inexorably – albeit at times fitfully – towards greater globalization, the third sector is assuming new roles. The growing recognition that local and global fortunes are intertwined has been leading more …
Capacity-building revisited – what do Western consultants really have to offer?
There is one sentence in the weaponry of NGO activists in the non-North-Atlantic part of the world that will hush even the most determined American or British development professional. The sentence goes: ‘You don’t understand …
Partnerships – walking the talk
Soon after becoming head of the World Bank in 1996, James Wolfensohn invited a number of institutions and groups to expand their activities with the Bank, and to work in partnership with it – including …
A present from America
The Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe is the parting gift to the region of six US foundations that have been funding civil society there for over a decade – and in …
BvLF works with African community foundations to increase impact
Strategic choice number 4 in the Bernard van Leer Foundation’s new strategic plan refers to ‘Impact beyond the project level’. BvLF is beginning to work with community foundations in Africa as a way to seek …
Maturation vs moroseness – reflections on this year’s WSF and WEF
The World Social Forum (WSF) in early February 2002 in Porto Alegre, Brazil demonstrated clearly that the so-called anti-globalization movement that gathered under the slogan ‘Another World is Possible’ is maturing rapidly. By contrast, the …
UNFIP forges new alliances for UN family
‘We cannot do it alone. We must engage the private sector and foundations to work together and maximize each others’ comparative advantages to help developing countries come out of the poverty trap.’ So said UN …
