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World Bank NGO/Civil Society Unit – what’s in a name?
Alliance interviewed John Clark, then head of the World Bank NGO Unit, in December 1998. William Reuben took over as head of what is now called the NGO/Civil Society Unit two years ago. Has the …
Interview – Monica Mutuku
Persuading people to help build an endowment fund that will support civil society capacity-building is never an easy task. In a country with extremes of poverty and immediate need like Kenya, it must be even …
Interview – Hassan Rattansi
The Ford Foundation is giving one-year planning grants to seven indigenous foundations in East Africa. Who are these foundations, what do they do, and how will the planning grants help them? Caroline Hartnell talked to …
Interview – Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards took on the post of Director of the Ford Foundation’s Governance and Civil Society Unit earlier this year. Caroline Hartnell talked to him about what he hopes to achieve at Ford, how this …
Interview – Luc Tayart de Borms
Foundations are by nature individualistic. How do you convince a big foundation in, say, France or Italy or the UK that they should be interested in a European approach? And then persuade them to put …
Interview – Will Day
Last year CARE USA decided not to take money from Monsanto. But CARE is currently sitting round a table with Shell, BP Amoco and other extraction companies. Why? For Will Day, Director of CARE International …
Interview – Bill Drayton
The now ubiquitous term social entrepreneur was coined by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, in 1980. Ashoka now refers to social entrepreneurship as a profession. And, as Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka, explained to Caroline …
Interview – Bill White
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is widely respected for its successful and innovative funding. What is the secret of this success? It seems that the answer may lie partly in a unique blend of leadership …
Interview – Anita Gupta and Sheela Patel
When company and NGO know what they want from each other, a company–NGO partnership can be a true partnership of equals. Caroline Hartnell talked to Anita Gupta of Citibank and Sheela Patel of Mumbai NGO …
Interview – PHILIP LOWE
Many European NGOs have criticized the European Union for the lack of a poverty focus in EU aid programmes, despite EU espousal of UN international development targets (see p4). It seems that conflicting strategic and …
