This blog provides a platform to help connect scholars and practitioners on a range of development and humanitarian issues (seen through an NGO lens). The blog will do this in a variety of ways:

• inviting NGO practitioners to reflect on scholarly research;
• profiling individuals who have done valuable work at the nexus of scholarship and practice;
• connecting scholars with the field-based intellectual products of NGOs; and
• sharing a diversity of viewpoints on interesting issues from practitioners, scholars and policy shapers.

The blog is a work in progress and will be successful only if it engages and connects many voices.  Sherine Jayawickrama, the manager of this blog, is keen to hear your ideas and perspectives.  She can be reached at sherine_jayawickrama@harvard.edu.

About Sherine Jayawickrama:
Sherine Jayawickrama manages the Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain of practice at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. She worked for ten years at CARE USA, where she worked in a variety of positions, including Deputy Regional Director for Asia, Senior Policy Analyst and Special Assistant to the President. Early in her career, she worked with PEN American Center in New York City and on environmental policy issues in Sri Lanka. Sherine grew up in Sri Lanka, earned a B.A. in economics and international relations at Scripps College, and an M.P.A. at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.