Toolkit (104 pages), January 2012, by Christina Bermann-Harms and Nora Lester Murad
Available for free in English, Spanish and French at www.cso-effectiveness.org/-toolkits,082-.html
The Toolkit is one of the major outputs of the Open Forum process. It is designed for civil society organizations of all types and in all places that wish to put the Istanbul Principles into practice to make their own development work more effective.
Development, 2011, 54(4), pp. 514-19.
Available for purchase ($30 USD) at http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v54/n4/pdf/dev201188a.pdf
In this scholar-practitioner journal dedicated to critical views on international development, I use my own experience to expose the incompatibility of the common ‘development’ worldview with political realities in Palestine; and I critique the development community for playing along with the charade that Palestine is “post-conflict.” Using the findings of research with grassroots civil society organizations, I show how dependence on development cooperation often contributes to the denial of Palestinians’ right to self-determination. I argue for honest self-reflection by the international development community, the Palestinian Authority, and Palestinian civil society to end complicity with efforts that maintain structural inequality rather than challenge it.
I facilitated a two-day training about aid effectiveness and development effectiveness for Polish NGOs.
Warsaw in Winter
I facilitated several strategic planning meetings for integrity educators.
Facilitating strategy session in Jakarta
I was a delegate to the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. I facilitated a workshop about reforming aid to civil society and presented an ePoster. At the civil society forum that preceded the official event, I spoke on a panel on aid to regions of conflict.
Conflict and Fragility Group
I took part in a small, strategic meeting run by New York University in Abu Dhabi to explore public-private-social partnerships in the Middle East region.
I ran two workshops at the Global Assembly of the Open Forum on CSO Development Effectiveness.
FABULOUS Cambodia
I facilitated in-depth strategic planning and logistics planning for a large-scale integrity education program.
I delivered a session on aid reform and took part in Synergos Institute’s annual meeting for fellows.
Synergos Senior Fellows Meeting, Namibia
I helped deliver curriculum design workshops for integrity educators from the former Soviet Union.