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		<title>Ending Hunger in Africa: What Strategies, What Governance?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nora McKeon Nothing unusual in the title of the seminar that The Hauser Center at Harvard University put together just over a year ago. Everyone from academics to NGOs, government officials and even rock stars seem to have something to say on the topic. The innovation here was the choice of the lead panelist: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Farmer’s Call for a New Conversation on Aid to Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Steven Lawry Paul Farmer’s compelling new book, “Haiti: After the Earthquake,” suggests that international aid to Haiti, while providing relief from suffering during the worst of times, including in the aftermath of the January 12, 2010, earthquake, has for the most part failed to help Haiti build capacity in its own public institutions, including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hausercenter.org/iha/2011/12/09/paul-farmer%e2%80%99s-call-for-a-new-conversation-on-aid-to-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Emerging Models of Participatory Philanthropy: FRIDA &#124; The Young Feminist Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alexandra Pittman What if grantmaking were revolutionalized to be a much more participatory, transparent and democratic process, where there was little to no distinction between grant recipients and grant makers? What would that look like and how would it work? The Young Feminist Fund – FRIDA has set out to do just that. FRIDA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hausercenter.org/iha/2011/12/05/emerging-models-of-participatory-philanthropy-frida-the-young-feminist-fund/</link>
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		<title>Four things NGOs should know for successful engagement with indigenous peoples</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Elisa Peter In a time when NGO leaders are increasingly looking at engaging with grassroots movements, it is crucial that they spend the time necessary to build relationships based on mutual trust, respect and understanding. This is particularly important when engaging with indigenous peoples movements. “’Red-washing’ is not uncommon”, says Carol Kalafatic, Associate Director [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hausercenter.org/iha/2011/12/03/four-things-ngos-should-know-for-successful-engagement-with-indigenous-peoples/</link>
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		<title>Aid Effectiveness in Fragile Contexts: Lessons For Busan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Isabella Jean Achieving development goals in conflict affected and fragile contexts remains one of the biggest challenges for development actors worldwide.  Consider this fact: not a single low income, fragile state will achieve any of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.  Weak governance and political instability continue to thwart meaningful progress and cause deeper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hausercenter.org/iha/2011/11/30/aid-effectiveness-in-fragile-contexts-lessons-for-busan/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Business–NGO Relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ayesha Barenblat In my new role as BSR’s Director of Stakeholder Collaboration, I am focused on building relationships with NGO colleagues globally to bring their insights to our member companies and develop next-generation stakeholder engagement approaches that are outcome based and take into account trends in the field. BSR created this position to deepen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hausercenter.org/iha/2011/11/16/the-future-of-business-%e2%80%93-ngo-relationships/</link>
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		<title>NGOs lobbying International Organizations: How to set agendas effectively</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rahul Daswani The reason there are 9 &#8220;Major Groups&#8221; of stakeholders as part of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development is because these groups are the ones who are pushy and vocal. Felix Dodds (Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum), shared his tips during a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School on November 10 2011: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hausercenter.org/iha/2011/11/13/ngos-lobbying-international-organizations-how-to-set-agendas-effectively/</link>
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		<title>Is civil society ready to countenance the big COP-out?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alexios Mantzarlis. The 17th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP17) is coming up, and no one harbors great hopes that the South African hosts will manage to cajole all major polluters into signing a legally-binding agreement to cut emissions. Civil society is rightly flummoxed at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hausercenter.org/iha/2011/11/11/is-civil-society-ready-to-countenance-the-big-cop-out/</link>
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		<title>I Participate, You Participate, They Decide.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Elisa Peter The women are sitting in a circle on the ground under a tree. They were brought together by an international development NGO. An NGO staffer is facilitating the discussion and drawing lines on a large sheet of paper. This could be in Bangladesh, Mali or Peru. All of us working in international development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hausercenter.org/iha/2011/11/08/i-participate-you-participate-they-decide/</link>
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		<title>Insights from India&#8217;s Anti-Corruption Movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Abby Bellows In April 2011, the Indian middle class started to wake up. Development activist Dr. R. Balasubramaniam (Balu) (HKS Mason Fellow, 2009-10) shared the story in a talk at the Hauser Center on October 31, 2011. India’s “dying democracy,” he explained, was revived by a convergence of factors – the Arab Spring uprisings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hausercenter.org/iha/2011/11/01/insights-from-indias-anti-corruption-movement/</link>
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