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How the Global Green Grants system works
The Siberia Advisory Board The Global Greengrants Fund has supported small, grassroots projects in Siberia and the Russian Far East since 1995. Working with an Advisory Board made up of leading environmentalists, GGF can identify …
Charity Know How – imperial arrogance or valuable approach?
Both foundations with growing assets and institutional donors such as the British Government Department for International Development are exploring re-granting strategies – making large grants to organizations with the capacity to make a larger number …
Whose associational revolution? NGOs’ role in creating a good society
How do citizens see NGOs? What can NGOs contribute towards a good society? Recent research suggests that in general NGOs are peripheral to the way citizens think about their societies and how to improve them. …
Traditions of giving in Christianity
Christian giving dates back to the birth of the church, to the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit to the followers of Jesus gathered after his tragic death, resurrection and ascension. The early …
Civil society – is it anything more than a metaphor for hope for a better world?
‘Rarely has there been a concept in the development field that has grabbed people’s attention so quickly and become so widely used in such a short space of time as the concept of civil society,’ …
Measuring for development
Few seriously question the need to measure results – but why do we do it? To satisfy funders that their money is being well spent? To empower intended beneficiaries to articulate their needs? To ensure …
Measuring a child’s smile – testing times for monitoring and evaluation
What can funders expect to learn from their poverty reduction projects – both the successes and the all-too-frequent failures? Not much, it seems, without major progress in the way projects are assessed. This was the …
Big funder, small NGO – finding a balance
No one disputes that funding organizations have a duty to ensure that their funds are well spent. But how can a large funder’s reporting requirements be framed so as to avoid overburdening a very small …
Big funder, small NGO – finding a balance
No one disputes that funding organizations have a duty to ensure that their funds are well spent. But how can a large funder’s reporting requirements be framed so as to avoid overburdening a very small …
Improving results-based management for capacity-building
This article looks at the intersection of two trends that are important for better development practice. One is the increasing adoption of results-based management (RBM) to demonstrate and improve the performance of projects and programmes. …