International development
Co-opting Aid for Political Purposes
Guest blog on WhyDev: Donors face difficult challenges. Sometimes they face choices between conflicting priorities. For example: (1) governments should have the right to determine how and where resources are used, and (2) individual human rights should be upheld and protected. These principles often conflict, particularly in countries where democratic governance is weak. Rosalind Eyben […]
Tags: #International development #Politics #Power #Practice #Process
Essential Development Studies Books
1950s: Discourse on Colonialism (1950) Cesaire The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957) Memmi 1960s: The Wretched of the Earth (1961) Fanon False Start in Africa (1962) Dumont Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (1968) Nkrumah 1970s: Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970) Sen Class Struggle in Africa (1970) Nkrumah Rules for Radicals (1971) Alinsky A […]
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Post-doc: Funding Writing Awards (UEA)
Three postdoctoral bid writing awards worth £1,600 each are available to early career scholars within 12 months of the award of a doctorate and who do not yet hold a permanent academic job. Funding is for four weeks of writing time, to enable the candidate to work on a postdoctoral application to a funder/s of […]
Letting them Die – Why Programs Fail
“In the old South Africa we killed people. Now we’re just letting them die.” – Pieter-Dirk Uys In her 2003 book, ‘Letting them Die’: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail, Catherine Campbell describes how “the best-intentioned programmes, even when they achieve high levels of mobilization of the least-powerful sectors of small local communities, may have […]
Tags: #Failure #International development #Participation #social capital #Stakeholders
The Making of a Better World
Rosalind Eyben spent a career as a practitioner in international development and then as an academic on the subject. Her 2014 book, “International Aid and the Making of a Better World: Reflexive Practice” is one of the few books that critically self-analyzes a personal trajectory. Unlike some personal journals/journeys of aid workers, this focuses upon […]
Tags: #Gender #Human Rights #International development #Participation #Reflexivity
IDRC Research Awards 2017
Eligibility: This call is open to Canadians, permanent residents of Canada, and citizens of developing countries pursuing OR who have completed a master’s or a doctoral degree at a recognized university. Who can apply: Positions are available at IDRC’s head office in Ottawa, Canada and at our regional office for Sub-Saharan Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. Eligibility criteria […]
Tags: #Governance #International development #International Development Research Centre #Justice #Research Award
The Anatomy of Giving
Most of the time development folks just speak with and to other development folks. Outsiders can bring a healthy voice to the conversation. Augusta Dwyer, in her 2015 work “The Anatomy of Giving” offers such a perspective on the aid industry, focusing upon Haiti. With a background as a journalist, she sets out to answer […]
Tags: #Aid #Anatomy of Giving #Civil society #Empowerment #International development
Navigating Complexity in International Development
Danny Burns and Stuart Worsley offer one of the best development studies reads of 2015 with their book “Navigating Complexity in International Development: Facilitating Sustainable Change at Scale.” There are shelves of books that cover similar topics in development studies, with much repetition and little innovative thinking. Burns and Stuart offer just that by viewing […]
Tags: #Complex systems #Complexity #International development #Power #Sustainability
IDRC Doctoral Research Awards
Approximately 20 grants of a maximum of CA$20,000 each Eligibility: This call is open to Canadians, permanent residents of Canada, and citizens of developing countries pursuing doctoral studies at a Canadian university. Other eligibility requirements include: Your research proposal must be approved by your thesis supervisor. Please provide proof. Your proposed field research must take place in one or […]
Tags: #Doctoral Award #Field Research Funding #IDRC #International development #International Development Research Centre #Research Award #Research Grants
Descent into Chaos – Afghanistan
Reflections on international development from Ahmed Rashid’s award-winning 2008 book “Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.” For those interested in the region, or of military intervention in the era of the ‘war on terror’ this is essential reading. Proposals before 9/11: “We proposed using economic aid related […]
Tags: #Afghanistan #Conflict #Failure #International development #War on Terror
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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