Interested in learning more about international aid? Check out the resources we have provided below!
Episode 1: The Role of International Aid Workers
Links and Blogs:
Articles:
Episode 2: International Volunteerism
Links:
- I-to-I, Why Pay to Volunteer?
- International Volunteerism Resource Center, Idealist.org
- Voluntourism
- Cross Cultural Solutions
- United Planet
- Abroad Reviews - Participant Reviews of International Volunteer/Internship Programs
- Ethical Volunteering
Articles:
- Fitzpatrick, Laura. "Vacationing like Brangelina" Time (26 January 2007)
- VSO Warning Against Gap Year Aid" BBC online (14 Aug 2007)
- MacNielle, Suzanne. "For Those Who Aid Others, 'Tourist' Doesn't Tell the Whole Story" New York Times (13 Nov 2006)
- Keesbury, Jill. "The Value of International Volunteerism" USAID Development Information Services (PDF)
- "Volunteers Descend on Ghana", AidWorkers.net Blogpost (July 2008)
- Rieffel, Lex and Zalud, Sarah. "International Volunteering - Smart Power" Brookings Institution
Blogs:
- Global Service Corps Tanzania Blog
- Cross Cultural Solutions, volunteer blogs
- Mark Sidey VSO Volunteer Blog
Episode 3: Innovations in Disaster Relief
Links:
- Domes for the World
- Domes for the World Blog
- Social innovations Conversations - Disaster Relief section: incl. articles, video, and audio
- Build Change- Earthquake-Resistant Construction
Articles
- Domes for the World Final Report for New Ngelepen, Indonesia
- Brisbane Times Article About "Domes for the World" (29 May 2007)
- Jakarta Post article printed on ReliefWeb about "Domes for the World" (2 May 2007)
- Bick, Julie. "In Crisis, Remote Access" New York Times (10 Nov 2008)
Episode 4: Higher Standards for Non-Profits
Links:
- Cambodia Trust
- Cambodia Trust Videos on Youtube
- International Organization for Standardization
- Nonprofit Panel--NGO Good Governance
- Non-Profit Accountability
- ISO 9001 Standards (Wikipedia)
- HAP is Humanitarian Accountability Partnership
Articles
- NGO Accreditation and Certification: The Way Forward? An Evaluation of the Development Community's Experience. (PDF)
- Can 9001: 2000 aid the humanitarian aid sector? (PDF)
- HAP 2007 Standard in Humanitarian Accountability and Quality Management (Blog Post)
- The Barriers to Effective Non-Profit Management (Blog Post)
- "The ISO 9001 Quality Approach: Useful for the Humanitarian Aid Sector?" ReliefWeb (23 Jan 2002)
Episode 5: Research in Development
Links:
Recent Articles about JPAL:
- Hardt, Leon. "Making Economics Relevant Again" Economic Scene, New York Times (20 Feb 2008)
- Lakshmi, Rama. "Makeover via MIT for Indian Police" Washington Post (23 Feb 2009)
- Mishra, Asit Ranjan. "We need more specialists to make schemes work for poor" Wall Street Journal (22 Dec 2008)
- Heffernan, Tim. "The MIT Lab Solving Foreign Aid Efficiency" Esquire (11 Dec 2008)
Episode 6: Peace Corps
Links:
- Peace Corps official site
- History of the Peace Corps, Official Site
- Peace Corps Online, Service for Former Volunteers
- Peace Corps Connect (National Peace Corps Association)
- Peace Corps Experiences
Articles
- Rieffel, Lex. "A Better Place for the Peace Corps" World View 21:3, (Fall 2008), Brookings Institution
- Vanderkam, Laura. "Peace Corps Needs Makeover" USA Today (24 Oct 2005)
- A Peace Corps volunteer's criticisms
- Strauss, Robert L. "Think Again: The Peace Corps" Foreign Policy (April 2008)
- Strauss, Robert L. "Too many innocents abroad" New York Times (9 Jan 2008)
- Responses to Strauss Article on Peace Corps Criticisms
- Peace Corps Kicked out of Russia
- Lepeska, David. "Where to go Peace Corps?" (8 Dec 2008)
Peace Corps member blogs:
- Peace Corps Writers
- Peace Corps Journals - under construction, but has links to member blogs
- Connected Peace Corps
Here are a few blogs that I found interesting that document experiences of individuals of varying ages/locations/projects:
- Steve's Adventure with the Peace Corps (Tonga)
- The Adventures of Kirsten and JJ (Ghana)
- Letters from China (China)
- Curiosity often leads to trouble (Peru)
- Reggae Hit Pirinska Makedonija (Bulgaria)
- Re's Adventures in St Kitts/Nevis (St Kitts/Nevis)
- Because They're Burning Bricks (Malawi)
- Innocent A-Blogged (Morocco)
Episode 7: Marketing to the Poor
Links:
- Bush Proof
- International Development Enterprises (Paul Polack)
- Paul Polack's website
- Market Approaches to Development
- ITT Watermark (partner with Mercy Corps and Water for People)
- Water for People
Articles:
- Scanlon, Jessie. "Paul Polack: Global poverty fighter" BusinessWeek (12 Jan 2009)
- Karnani, Aneel. "The Mirage of Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid: How the private sector can help alleviate poverty" California Management Review (Summer 2007) (PDF)
- Prahalad, C.K. and Hammond, Allen. "Serving the world's poor, profitably" Harvard Business Review
(Sept 2002) (PDF) - Simanis, Erik and Hart, Stuart. "Expanding Possibilities at the Base of the Pyramid"
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (Winter 2006) - Heierli, Urs. "Why it is so hard to get safe water to the poor - and so profitable to sell it to the rich" Study published by Market Approaches to Development and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (PDF)
- "The Right to Water" Mercy Corps (29 April 2008)
Episode 8: Faith-based Aid
Links:
Articles and info:
- Morgan, Lindsay. "Faith and Development in Zambia" Center for Global Development (25 Feb 2008)
- Morgan, Lindsay. "Let's Talk About Faith, Development - and Evidence" Center for Global Development (20 Oct 2006)
- "Faith-based organizations play a major role in HIV/AIDS care and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa" World Health Organization (8 Feb 2007)
- "Faith in Action: Examining the Role of Faith-based Organizations in Addressing HIV/AIDS" Global Health Council (2005)
- "Bush brings faith to foreign aid" Boston Globe (8 Oct 2006)
- "Development and Faith: When mind, heart, and soul work together" produced by the World Bank (Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics) (2004) (PDF)
- See more on the Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics at the World Bank
- Ferris, Elizabeth. "Faith-based and secular humanitarian organizations" International Review of the Red Cross 87:858 (June 2005) (PDF)
- Marshall, Katherine. "Faith and Development: Rethinking Development Debates" World Bank (June 2005)
Episode 9: Micro-Lending
Links:
- Kiva
- Microfinance Reading List compiled by Global Envision
- UN website for 2005: International Year of Microcredit
- UN Capital Development Fund, Microfinance Distance Learning Program
- Grameen Foundation
- Microfinance Transparency
Articles:
- "Small Loans Make a Big Difference" Forbes.com (3 June 2008)
- Gryta, Thomas. "Help impoverished entrepreneurs with loans" Wall Street Journal (23 Sept 2003)
- "A Tale of Two Lenders" Business Week (Winter 2006)
- Harford, Tim. "The battle for the soul of microfinance" Financial Times (6 Dec 2008)
- Rhyne, Elisabeth. "The Ying and Yang of Microfinance: Reaching the Poor and Sustainability" MicroBanking Bulletin No. 2 (July 1998) (PDF)
- Morduch, Jonathan. "The Microfinance Schism" World Development 28:4 (April 2000)
- Morduch, Jonathan. "Does microfinance really help the poor? New Evidence from Flagship Programs in Bangladesh" (June 1998) (PDF)
- Karnani, Aneel. "Microfinance Misses Its Mark" Stanford Social Innovation Review (Summer 2007) (PDF)
- Khandker, Shahidur R. "Microfinance and poverty - evidence using panel data from Bangladesh" Policy Research Working Paper (World Bank) (January 2003)
- Tripathi, Salil. "Microcredit won't make poverty history" The Guardian (17 Oct 2006)
- Karlan, Dean and Zinman, Jonathan. "Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts" (July 2007) Working Paper
- Buckley, Graeme. "Micro-finance in Africa: Is it either the problem or the solution?" World Development 25:7 (July 1997)
- Cowen, Tyler. "Microloans May Work, but There Is Dispute in India Over Who Will Make Them" New York Times (10 Aug 2006)
- You, Too, Can Be a Banker to the Poor
Episode 10: Social Entrepreneurship
Links:
- Ashoka Website
- Changemakers.net (initiative of Ashoka)
- Stanford Social Innovation Review
- The Skoll Foundation
- The Skoll Foundation - What is a Social Entrepreneur?
- Social Edge (Skoll Foundation) - YouTube Videos
- Social Edge.org
- The Schwab Foundation
- Innovations magazine, MIT
- Social Entrepreneurship at Change.org
- Social Innovations Conversations, links to articles, podcasts, etc on Social Entreprenuership
Articles:
- Greg Dee's article on Social Entrepreneurship (PDF)
- Waynun Patut Profile on Ashoka website
- Atmodjo, Wasti. "Coral program improves livelihoods, environment" Jakarta Post (11 Sept 2008)
- Mercy Corps, Profiles of Successful Social Entrepreneurs
- The Age of Ambition, Nicolas Kristof
- Do-Gooders With Spreadsheets, Nicolas Kristof
- Tolve, Andrew. "Social Entrepreneurs Go Mainstream" Ode Magazine (Mar 2009)
- "Social entrepreneurs don't want to help. They want to change the world." Interview with Bill Drayton. The Focus Online. (Feb 2008
- Schwab, Klaus and Schwab, Hilde. "Social Innovation in a Post-Crisis World" Innovations (2009) (PDF)