Contributors
Aaron Ausland
Aaron Ausland is global development professional with 15 years experience working in over 30 countries. He holds a B.A. in International Political Economy from the University of Puget Sound and a Masters in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School. He is the founding editor of The Global Citizen: a Journal for Young Adults Engaging the World Through Service (www.kristafoundation.org). He is currently the Director of Independent Research and Evaluation at World Vision International. He also blogs on issues related to international development and service ethics at www.stayingfortea.org.
Focus on Corruption: How to secure the aims of decentralization in Peru by improving good governance at the regional level Uploaded 27th September 2011
Focus on Corruption: How to secure the aims of decentralization in Peru by improving good governance at the regional level
Dorosella F. Bishanga
Dorosella was born in Tanzania and is currently living in Germany. She is in the final stage completing her Masters in Democratic Governance and Civil Society under DAAD sponsorship. She is passionate about equality issues and believes it is through equal opportunity and participation that every member of society can realize hes or her potential. Among others issues that she is interested in are accountability and transparency as key governance principles and the belief through these key principles that citizens can access information that can enable them hold their leaders to account.
On International Women’s Day Tanzanian women were still far from achieving a measure of equality Posted 26th March 2012
Marike de Kloe
Marike de Kloe holds an MSc in Educational Science as well as an MSc in Management of Development from the Open University. She is currently working as education programme manager for the Dutch NGO Woord en Daad (www.woordendaad.nl)
Inter-Organisational Cooperation of Haitian NGOs in Education – A Haitian Perspective (149)
Emma Forrest
Emma graduated in 2010 from the University of Reading with a First Class Human Geography degree. Since graduating she has spent seven months volunteering, studying, travelling and working in Australia, New Zealand, Kenya and Indonesia. Since then she has been looking to start her career in International Development or Corporate Social Responsibility.
Victims of the Economic Crisis: Female migrant workers and the growing threat of exploitation, forced labour and trafficking Uploaded 28th February 2012
Victims of the Economic Crisis: Female migrant workers and the growing threat of exploitation, forced labour and trafficking (107)
Carly Garonne
Carly Garonne is currently completing a Master in International and Community Development at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. She holds a Bachelor in International Studies, as well as a Diploma in French. She is currently employed at World Vision Australia as a Child Sponsorship Promoter and has previously worked as a Research Assistant at United Nations Volunteers in Bonn, Germany. She describes herself as being “very passionate about international development” and is looking forward to a continued future in the civil society sector.
How can NGOs practice ‘doing good’ and minimise ‘doing harm’? What are the dilemmas and challenges present? Uploaded 26th November 2011
How can NGOs practice ‘doing good’ and minimise ‘doing harm’? What are the dilemmas and challenges present? (228)
Alan Hudson
Alan Hudson currently works for the ONE Campaign, where he leads on governance, transparency and accountability. Immediately prior to working for ONE, Alan worked on a range of governance-related issues for DFID in London and Ethiopia. Prior to working for DFID Alan held a number of policy and research posts at the Overseas Development Institute, the UK Parliament, the Open University and the University of Cambridge. Many of Alan’s publications are available at www.alanhudson.info and Alan can be found on twitter @alanhudson1
Globalization, Regulation and Geography: The Development of the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands Offshore Financial Centres Uploaded 11th October 2011
Globalization, Regulation and Geography: The Development of the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands Offshore Financial Centres (108)
Krystle Lai
Multi-sectoral Approaches to Migration of Health Professionals Uploaded 9th June 2011
Multi-sectoral Approaches to Migration of Health Professionals (250)
James Lawrie
James Lawrie is a postgraduate with an MA in International Trade and Finance from Leeds Metropolitan University.
Free Trade in the Real World: Competing perspectives about the role and impact of trade in developing countries Published January 30th 2011
Free Trade in the Real World: Competing perspectives about the role and impact of trade in developing countries (590)
Jennifer Lentfer
Jennifer Lentfer has worked with over 300 grassroots organizations in east and southern Africa over the past decade, focusing on organizational development and learning. Currently, she is the creator/editor of www.how-matters.org, a blogsite aimed at raising the level of human dignity within development assistance and putting real resources behind local means of overcoming obstacles.
Understanding organizational development within community-based organizations Published August 18th 2010
The Glass Half Full? Understanding organizational development within community based organizations (776)
Beyond Accountability: Harnessing the Power of M&E to Improve OVC Programming Published August 23rd 2010
Beyond Accountability: Harnessing the Power of M&E to Improve OVC Programming (587)
Kate Leslie
Burnt Out Borneo Published February 15th 2010
Trevor Mattos
Trevor is a Pike Scholar studying International Development and Public Health at Gordon College, Massachusetts. There he has played a prominent role in the establishment of the Learn Africa Project. Trevor is also a board member of Clinics of Hope. Previously he has worked with ‘Beyond Benign’ – promoting sustainable science.
The Learn Africa Project: Public Health, Applied Learning and Research Internship Project Report uploaded December 18th 2011
Baltazar M.L Namwata
Baltazar holds an MSc in Agricultural Education as well as a BSC in Agricultural Studies. He is currently working at the Institute of Rural Development Planning, Dodoma where he specialises in Environmental and Rural Sociology, Development Studies, Agriculture and Gender.
Demographic Dimensions and their Implications on the Incidence of Street Begging in Urban Areas of Central Tanzania: The Case of Dodoma and Singida Municipalities Uploaded to Hii Dunia May 7th 2011
Demographic Dimensions and their Implications on the Incidence of Street Begging in Urban Areas of Central Tanzania (747)
Baltazar M.L Namwata - CV (56)
Cynthia Odera
Cynthia is currently studying towards a Masters in Development Studies from St Paul’s University, Limuru, Kenya. Her Thesis is entitled “Addressing Urban Poverty:The Role of Youth Community-Based Organizations, Agencies and Groups in Community-Driven Development, Kibera Slums”.
Renewable Energy Technologies – Benefits, Opportunities and Constraints Published 1st September 2010
Renewable energy technologies- benefits, opportunities and constraints (579)
David Parduhn
David gained his BA in Area Studies Asia/Africa and a minor in Social Sciences from Humboldt University, Berlin in 2010. In his Bachelor thesis he investigated the social construction of ethnic identities and their political relevance in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province until the general elections in 1992.
Recently, he gained his MA in Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation from the School of Global Studies, Sussex University, Brighton. In his dissertation he investigated the shifting perceptions of Turkish ‘immigrants’ and the emergence of a ‘Muslim community’ in Germany. His work has been awarded the Bill and Scarlett Epstein Prize for the best MA dissertation in Anthropology.
At present, he is working as assistant lecturer at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, teaching academic methods and debates in anthropology/area studies.
From March 2012 he will be based in Nairobi, working at the National Commission for UNESCO. He is particularly interested in critical theory, gender, the construction of histories, othering and identity politics, participatory methods, and islamophobia within foreign and defence policy including the ongoing ‘war on terror’.
Losing out to Supermarkets – The Transformation of Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains in Southern Africa Uploaded 11th June 2011
Losing out to Supermarkets - The Transformation of Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains in Southern Africa (233)
‘Money does not always talk’ – Reassessing the Empowerment Potential of Women’s Employment Uploaded 1st June 2011
‘Money does not always talk’ - Reassessing the Empowerment Potential of Women’s Employment (306)
Change or Continuity? Female Sex Workers’ Lives in the Dominican Republic Uploaded 12th September 2011
Change or Continuity? Female Sex Workers’ Lives in the Dominican Republic (194)
‘Everyone is doing something and calling it PRA’ – A Critical Reflection on Participatory Methods in Development Uploaded 10th October 2011
‘Everyone is doing something and calling it PRA’ A Critical Reflection on Participatory Methods in Development (213)
Verity Powell
Verity completed a Masters in International Development at Birkbeck University in 2011. She subsequently worked for a development charity on the Caribean coast of Colombia for three months, before returning to London. She is passionate about Latin American Women’s Rights and currently volunteers for the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS).
Girls to Women: Gendered Transitions to Adulthood in The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Uploaded 10th April 2012
Girls to Women: Gendered Transitions to Adulthood in The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. (64)
James Ricci
Infectious Diseases and TRIPS: A Critique of Global Civil Society Published March 31st 2010
Amina Samy
In Service of Those Who Serve Us? The Impact of Immigration Policy on Discrimination against Foreign Female Domestic Workers in Kuwait Uploaded May 15th 2011
In Service of Those Who Serve Us? The Impact of Immigration Policy on Discrimination against Foreign Female Domestic Workers in Kuwait (240)
Allah and Micro-Finance? Investigating Islamic Banking Principles in Indonesia’s Microfinance Sector, and its Potential for Economic Empowerment Uploaded April 14th 2011
Allah and Micro-Finance? Investigating Islamic Banking Principles in Indonesia's Microfinance Sector, and its Potential for Economic Empowerment (555)
Maya Sethi
Maya has recently completed an MSc in Gender and Social Policy (with a development focus) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, during which she also completed an internship at Action Against Hunger | ACF UK with the Evaluations, Learning and Accountability unit. Prior to this she studied for a BA in Development Studies with Overseas Experience at the University of East Anglia, which included work experience in rural Kenya. For both degrees her thesis focal point was education and gender equality within a development context, and she is very interested in pursuing a career in this area.
Since graduating from LSE, Maya spent 3 months travelling in Asia before returning to the UK to begin pursuing a career in International Development. She is currently the Programmes Intern at Street Child Africa and the Research and Operations Intern at the Coram Children’s Legal Centre. She can be found on twitter at @mayasethi – tweeting about all things international development related.
What contribution does feminist economics make to the understanding of gender equality? Uploaded March 22nd 2012
What contribution does feminist economics make to the understanding of gender equality? (84)
Shefali Shah
Shefali recently graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies with a Merit in MSc Globalisation and Development. In 2009 she completed her BA in Geography at Kings College London and has since sought to develop her skills in pursuit of a career within the international development sector. Her specialties are in development aid, aid delivery, gender equity and food security, as well as the economic history and policies of emerging economies such as East Asia and Latin America.
Cash or Food Aid? Assessing the role of resource-based transfers in achieving female empowerment and gender equity in social protection programmes Uploaded December 28th 2011
Cash or Food Aid? Assessing the role of resource-based transfers in achieving female empowerment and gender equity in social protection programmes (162)
Hannah Taylor
Hannah has lived, worked and travelled in much of Africa, as well as having travelled widely in Europe, India and North America. Her areas of expertise are Malawi, Kenya, Agriculture and smallholder farmers, the positive role that the private sector has in promoting sustainable growth in Africa, gender, and human trafficking.
She has worked for diverse organisations from NGOs like STOP THE TRAFFIK campaigning for an end to human trafficking, to the London Missionary Society (now CWM), to Exagris Africa Ltd – a commercial community farming enterprise. She also spends much of her time working with young adults and coordinating volunteering trips. She has moved back from Malawi to complete her MSc in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, writes regularly on her well respected blog – Graduate in Africa and can be found on Twitter at @hftaylor.
Under what circumstances are NGOs unable to gain access to vulnerable populations? What are the implications for aid policy? Uploaded February 20th 2012
Under what circumstances are NGOs unable to gain access to vulnerable populations? What are the implications for aid policy? (78)
Liam Taylor
Somalia: The Build Up To Chaos Published March 28th 2010
The Conception and Expansion of Patronage Networks in Somalia Published May 30th 2010
A critical analysis of the role of clans and economic patronage in the collapse, and continual fragmentation of Somalia (502)
Alfonso Tolmos
Focus on Corruption: How to secure the aims of decentralization in Peru by improving good governance at the regional level Uploaded 27th September 2011
Focus on Corruption: How to secure the aims of decentralization in Peru by improving good governance at the regional level
Craig Tucker
Effectiveness of NGOs versus the State Published 28th July 2010
Are NGOs are more effective at facilitating development than governments? (937)
