New research into public attitudes to “Development”

This blog post examines the results of recent opinion polls, which show that public support in Ireland for overseas aid remains high, but that there are puzzling inconsistencies in people’s views on whether aid actually works.

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Time to hear from the urban poor

Why cities, and the communities of poor people living in the rapidly growing urban centres of the world, are going to be crucial in the fight against poverty.
(and why we in Dóchas are involved in the World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty)

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Basing the Post-2015 Development Framework on Programmes That Work

As the world gets ready to debate what “Framework” should succeed the Millennium Development Goals, this blog post aims to collate some key areas of learning about what works, and what doesn’t, if we aim to ‘make poverty history’.

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“Development programmes that work” – A short anthology of examples from research

This blog post presents a series of results from Randomised Control Trial Studies in various areas of development cooperation. It aims to present an overview of evidence presented to date on which programme types really work.

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Transforming our discourse on poverty and social justice

In a recent article, ‘Beyond Charity’, Martin Kirk, Head of Campaigns, Oxfam UK, summarised his thoughts on a lot of recent research and thinking on communicating development.

While he speaks to the UK’s experience, our sector is a global one and there is much in this polemical article to challenge us here in Ireland. This blog summarises his contribution to the debate.

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NGOs and Accountability: What it says in the Papers

Irish NGOs are clearly very aware of the challenges and opportunities for greater NGO Accountability. But a research sample suggests they have failed to harness the power of the media to educate the Irish public about the issue.

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Using cartoons to Communicate Development

In preparation for our conference on “Communicating Development”, we present a series of cartoons, to illustrate the challenges NGOs face when it comes to public communications.

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How do we communicate global poverty?

As the debate about Kony 2012 has shown, people in the Aid sector often agree that “things are more complicated” than popular media discourse suggest.
That is of course true, but the real question then is: How DO you communicate the full complexity of “Development” and yet succeed in Engaging people?

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Irish NGOs and Social Networking: “Think Relationships, not Campaigns”

Irish NGOs do not use social media as much as they could. A study of Dóchas members’ use of Facebook suggests that NGOs may gain by developing a more explicit social media strategy.

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Including older people in development policy & practice

This blog post explains why ageing is increasingly a development issue, and what we can do to ensure unintentional discrimination against older people in development practice.

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