Top NGO Leadership News – May 28, 2010
Posted by Leadership Training in Staff & Volunteer Training on May 28, 2010
- Michealene Cristini Risley: Changing The World, Together
May 28, 2010
- The second more thoughtful look at NGOs in Africa was more telling than her first glance. - Building Leadership Skills
May 28, 2010
- A little more information about somatic training. - How, When, If To Weave and/or Strengthen Networks Using Social Media
May 28, 2010
- Some very interesting work on networks and net work… - Exploring Authentic Leadership with Global Citizen Year Founding Fellows
May 28, 2010
- Another NGO creating “transformative bridge year” training for students completing high school and about to enter college. - Embodied Leadership Article
May 28, 2010
- Curious about authenticity and embodied leadership? This will tkae you to a paper that argues that although authentic leadership may be rooted in the notion of a
‘true self’, it is through the embodiment of that ‘true self’ that leaders are perceived as
authentic or not. - Myers Briggs and The Body
May 28, 2010
- What are the chances of integrating the Myers Briggs personality assessment with somatic assessment? This is explored a little in this article. - Communication, Conflict and Ethical Charities
May 28, 2010
- “How to reconcile the charities world, full of wonderful caring people and the fact that many organizational practices within the sector are Victorian at best?” Very good question.
NGO in a Box
Posted by admin in NGOs and the UN on May 19, 2010
So what is “NGO-in-a-box”?
NGO-in-a-box provides technical service providers and support staff within non-profits with bespoke box-sets of tools and materials aggregated around specific themes. Tactical Tech works to form networks of established experts who can act as topical and regional editorial teams. These teams work together to actively recommend and select tools and materials around a given topic.
NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software (F/OSS), tailored to the needs of NGO’s. It provides them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and relevant materials to support this.
To find out
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NGO Diplomacy
Posted by admin in Leadership Strategies, Organizational Development on April 26, 2010
by Michele M. Betsill and Elisabeth Corell
NGO Diplomacy is a timely and extremely important contribution to understanding what impact NGOs have had in intergovernmental negotiations especially in in the area of the environment and sustainable development. NGO Diplomacy zeroed in on the impact of NGOs on the intergovernmental processes and negotiation outcomes and enlightens understanding of how international negotiations are conducted and the roles NGOs have in these.
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In short, NGOs can put pressure on governments to persuade them to change policies. But how this is done, where it is done and some of the surrounding and changing circumstances is what NGO Diplomacy looks at.
Betsill and Corell’s work outline how NGO diplomacy plays a significant role in intergovernmental negotiations drawing out distinctions between the ways governmental diplomats and NGO diplomats work and what they can represent. The benefits and the challenges of these two worlds interacting track back to their different boundaries. The states have national and political boundaries. NGOs ‘ boundaries more often transcend state boundaries and are de-marked by issues such as those that affect the global commons.
In particular, this study provides an analytical framework that is intriguing for those who seek to influence negotiators and the negotiation process. Because there are so many variables in the actual work done by both governments and NGOs, the editors acknowledge the difficulty of assessing all factors. However, there are basis for measuring NGO influence in particular cases and this is done using various methods and data types.
The reflections the editors made at the end of their work drew out many important and interesting points connected with political stakes, issues of NGO competitions and politics, alliances with states, perceived levels of contention, and finally the shifting and blurring of some elements of global governance and diplomacy.
Contributors:
Steinar Andresen, Michele M. Betsill, Stanley W/ Burgiel, Elisabeth Corell, David
Humphreys, Tora Skodvin
About the Editors
Michele M. Betsill is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University.
Elisabeth Corell, the Wallenberg Fellow in Environment and Sustainability at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs from 2001 to 2006, is currently an independent scholar.
Get more info about NGO Diplomacy
From the 2009 UN General Assembly
Posted by admin in NGOs and the UN on April 22, 2010
This is a very short 3 minute briefing including an excerpt of the UN Secretary-General’s opening remarks of the 64th Session of the United Nations in September last year, 2009. I am adding it here as we are re-organizing our blog, but didn’t want to lose this reference.
If you want to hear or see more recent webcasts, you can following the links to the UN’s webcast site to get more webcasts and to view other session, past statements of Heads of State etc.
Last year, the 64th Session’s High Level segment during which heads of state and senior government officials spoke, continued from the 23rd through the 25th September 2009.
The UN webcasts many of their sessions and as noted above, these are freely available online at: http://www.un.org/webcast/ga.html
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