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Friday’s Poetic Pause: “Capacity Gap”

How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Capacity Gap” by yours truly.

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Has aid lost its humanity?

Mette Müller, founder of Best Self Experience, shares her experience in which “development work had become more about systems and structures than the actual lived realities of people.” Can important concepts like 'empathy', 'understanding' and 'compassion' enter the way we deliver aid?

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The elephant hasn’t left the room: Racism, power & international aid

“I want to be able to have an open conversation with grantees that allows me to be who I am. That is the only way I know how to use my power and privilege to support others.” A guest post by Sasha Rabsey of The HOW Fund

The Year Ends. The Pendulum Swings.

2011 has been a “shake-up” year for those involved in “flipping the aid system” to put more local and national actors in the driver’s seat of development. How-matters.org is shutting down until January 15th to reflect and plan for 2012!

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