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I have worked in International development, and with respected International development agencies, for over 20 years.

I continue to get fascinated by what brings and takes away EFFECTIVENESS in both People and Organisations.

I'm especially interested in helping organisations and people become effective at what they do.

• The move to ‘Southernise’ International development and the capacity/corruption challenge – surprise solution!

  By AB Gabazira on March 28, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  Every time I come across writing like: lack of authentic market principles; revenue-vulnerability, the tendency to appease the powerful in the industry sector and not always defending what is correct; ongoing mid-life and identity crisis; failure of the very good effort thus far at poverty… Read More ›

• Doomsday for the INGO expatriate staff?

  By AB Gabazira on March 21, 2015 • ( 10 )

  

  The emerging global trend is for organisations to invest in Global Leadership Development (GLD). The latter recognises an increasingly global marketplace that demands global leadership skills of most leaders. It is common for expatriates (expats) to occupy the first and second tier… Read More ›

• The future of the INGO – a comparative analysis

  By AB Gabazira on March 14, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  There is a lot of writing about the future of the INGO. An INGO leader myself, I understand well how even the best visionary in the industry can quickly get mired in the oversupply of ‘opinion’ and the dithering that… Read More ›

• Leaders in the development industry & the temptation to ‘appease’

  By AB Gabazira on March 7, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Leaders in the development industry face leadership-compromising situations based on the fact that the market in the development industry is not always run on rational demand/supply principles. I have blogged before about the fallacy of the development market. A market… Read More ›

• Developments’ forgotten child – the Community Based Organization

  By AB Gabazira on February 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  If you ask for a list of organizations implementing development programs, effective or not at that, I suspect that you will get something like: INGO, native Civil Society Organization (CSO) in my context the East Africa Civil Society Organization (EACSO),… Read More ›

• The INGO crisis of identity

  By AB Gabazira on February 20, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  A few weeks back, I blogged about the native East Africa Civil Society Organisation (EACSO) cloning the INGO. If the INGO has a clone in the EACSO, in effect a replica entity occupying the same space, what is the role of… Read More ›

• The future of development!

  By AB Gabazira on February 6, 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  ‘More of the same’ will not be enough – ODI.org I am writing from remote East-Africa, afar from decisions that will determine the fate of the poor people I serve in my day job, that of my kin, and other… Read More ›

• Why has the East Africa Civil Society Organisation cloned the INGO?

  By AB Gabazira on January 30, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  My blog last week asked whether the East Africa Civil Society Organisation (EACSO) is a recycled INGO – the blog raised interesting comments both on and offline. https://gabazira.com/2015/01/21/local-cso-recycled-ingo/ Given all that has been said and written on the subject, it… Read More ›

• Is the East Africa Civil Society Organisation a recycled INGO?

  By AB Gabazira on January 21, 2015 • ( 9 )

  

  Is the Civil Society Organisation (CSO) in East Africa a mere extension of the northern-INGO and its problems? I returned from my Christmas break ready to follow developments in the INGO vs. local civil society effective-partnership dialogue that I blogged on… Read More ›

• Effective poverty-eradication in Luuka, Uganda – is the ‘deve-preneur’ model the answer?

  By AB Gabazira on January 14, 2015 • ( 25 )

  

  Luuka district is found in the Eastern Uganda Busoga sub-region, located approximately 33 KM by road, north-west of Iganga the nearest largest town and approximately 44 KM by road, north of Jinja the largest city in the sub-region. Luuka has… Read More ›