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Shack/slum dwellers international – Financing strategies for community goals
Several articles in this issue of Alliance have argued that donors should be more willing to invest directly in developing country NGOs. This article shows how Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), a global network of federations …
American India Foundation – Tapping into US wealth for India’s development
Channelling funds from richer to poorer countries effectively is the key objective of all organizations involved in overseas grantmaking and the paramount concern among donors. Various innovative models have been implemented in response to this …
Acumen Fund – Creating investment portfolios
Why do people tend to give locally rather than across national borders despite increasing acceptance of the interconnectedness of the world, its problems and solutions? In the US, for example, less than 2 per cent …
Give Foundation, India – Promoting giving for India’s development
People’s reluctance to give to charitable causes and organizations often stems from scepticism about NGOs and a lack of adequate information about how their money is used. They would be more likely to donate if …
Globalgiving.com – Globalizing opportunity
GlobalGiving.com (formerly DevelopmentSpace) has been described as the ‘eBay of international development’. While the comparison is not exact, it does reflect our mission: To become the world’s richest marketplace for international aid and philanthropy. And …
Access – Ensuring potential winners do win
Imagine a world in which all groups of citizens coming together to realize some public benefit measure and communicate the consequences of their work. Imagine further that all those groups have adopted a common reporting …
PRSPs – the only show in town?
At the threshold of the new millennium the World Bank decided to make poverty eradication its number one priority. The most immediate and concrete outcome of, what at the time was heralded as a ‘sea …
Structural adjustment by another name
No cheers were heard in Managua when the World Bank, flanked by the European government donor agencies, called in the Nicaraguan Government and NGOs and announced that the new game in town was PRSP. After …
We have not come here to beg!
‘We have not come here to beg. We have come here to say: ‘Let’s make partnership, let’s sit together, slum dwellers and city authorities and the bilaterals under the auspices of the UN. We can …
Indigenous peoples win voice at UN
On 27 April 2000, the UN Commission on Human Rights formally called on the UN to establish the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues as a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The …