April 29, 2024
train-your-team-to-say-no

Train your team to say no

Director of the Akiba Uhaki Foundation, or East African Human Rights and Social Justice Fund, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Ezra is also a Mason Fellow of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and an alumnus of the Kellogg International Leadership Program. He has already contributed to this blog here. Here is a short summary of our conversation on how African organisations like Akiba Uhaki can and should engage international donors differently to hold them accountable for the aid they promise.
December 22, 2018

Aid localisation, or how feedback can redefine partnerships

At the beginning of the year I wrote about the challenge of localising aid or, broadly put, how to help local civil society organisations to better respond to a crisis by strengthening their capacity and channeling more international funding directly through them. As 2018 draws to a close, I come back to this topic to share the latest thinking based on what I heard from a few local partners themselves at a recent event held in The Hague.
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