By Sherine Jayawickrama A couple of months ago, I blogged about how much NGOs have changed in terms of their readiness and their capacity to engage in the policy arena.  In that post, I cited NGO advocacy and campaigning at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh as an example.  The climate change summit that began today [...]

A continuing theme on which I’ve commented several times (links here, here, and here) concerns the increasing share of private resources in development aid.  Sam Worthington, the president and CEO of InterAction, the leading coalition of 165 U.S. development and relief NGOs, was on campus this week to kick off the NGO Leaders in Humanitarian [...]

While working through a backlog of reading I came across this post by Lucy Bernholz* on Philanthropy 2173, in which she characterizes “foreign aid” as “international philanthropy” while referencing Reinventing Foreign Aid, a new volume edited by William Easterly. Private philanthropy is part of “foreign aid,” and as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, arguably its [...]