International Research and Events Blog

Category: Ngos

        • 02/07/2013
          What I learnt from looking behind The Global Journal’s Top 100 NGO ranking

          [Note from Dave: The following is a cross-post from Tobias Denskus's excellent blog, Aidnography. Given my critiques of the Global Journal's Top 100 NGO list, I thought it only fair to host an alternate take.
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        • 01/27/2013
          Once again with the top NGOs list?
          A year ago, something called the Global Journal published a list of the top 100 best NGOs. It was a terrible idea, as I described at the time in a post titled: “Lies, damned lies, and ranking lists: The Top 100 Best NGOs” (sometimes I have the subtlety of an after-school special).
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        • 09/01/2012
          The Last Hunger Season: highlighting slow but positive change

          I recently finished reading The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change by Roger Thurow. The book chronicles the lives of four smallholder farming families in western Kenya over the course of a year, as they move from hunger to harvest and back again.
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