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    Live from New York: Our complete coverage

    A compilation of our news coverage and exclusive interviews with some of the aid world’s biggest names attending the 2012 U.N. General Assembly, Clinton Global Initiative and Social Good Summit.

    By Eliza Villarino // 26 September 2012
    Photo by: joiseyshowaa / CC BY-SA

    Every third week of September, the biggest names in foreign affairs, humanitarian aid and global development converge in New York for the U.N. General Assembly, Clinton Global Initiative, Social Good Summit and a host of other gatherings — and Devex was, as usual, in the middle of things.

    In his column, Devex Editor Rolf Rosenkranz, who oversaw the coverage from New York, observed how there was much talk about “redesigning” development assistance — when it comes to striking up new partnerships, creating innovative products for the poor, improving aid delivery, or crafting a set of post-2015 development goals.

    One buzz-worthy moment came when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on donors to “broaden and increase our network of partnerships” beyond international NGOs. How did iNGO leaders take this challenge? Check out our interviews with Carolyn Miles, president and CEO of Save the Children, Ritu Sharma, co-founder and president of Women Thrive Worldwide, Jonathan Quick, president and CEO of Management Sciences for Health, and others.

    We also spoke with U.N. Development Program Administrator Helen Clark about the upcoming Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review and the challenges facing the aid community today, in a story entitled ”UN looks to the future of its development policy.”

    Check out our complete coverage from U.N. week in New York below.

    Clinton Global Initiative

    Carolyn Miles, president and CEO of Save the Children, discusses how the aid community needs to adapt to new realities and proven mistakes to make an impact.

    • Why aid groups alone won’t raise education standards

    • Save the Children CEO’s advice to NGOs

    • Donor spending shrinks: How can NGOs cope?

    • Trending: Multistakeholder partnerships for education

    • How to design for impact

    • Education for all vs. learning

    • Carolyn Miles: Hillary Clinton is absolutely right

    Antonio Guterres, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks about the agency’s strategic partnerships and provides updates on ongoing crises from Syria to Myanmar.

    • Status of jailed aid workers in Myanmar

    • How to solve protracted refugee crises

    • ‘Countries are determined to keep their borders open’

    • Transition from relief to development: The basics

    • Partnerships, core to UNHCR operations

    • How to accelerate transition from relief to development

    • Innovations for relief work

    • How much does UNHCR rely on its partners?

    George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, talks about the danger of emergencies turning into protracted, long-term refugee crises, using the Horn of Africa, South Sudan, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as examples.

    • How IRC helps refugees

    • In Dadaab, refugee crisis ‘has long-term ramifications’

    • Hostile governments: What can the aid community do?

    • Refugees then, nation builders today

    • Can aid groups solve the refugee crisis?

    • IRC in Afghanistan: Hopes and fears beyond 2014

    Cherie Blair, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, discusses how her organization works with local communities to strengthen the capacity of women entrepreneurs, and forming partnerships with governments and businesses.

    • How the Cherie Blair Foundation approaches partnerships

    • ‘We do it with a great deal of humility’

    • Wanted: Partners to empower women entrepreneurs

    • Cherie Blair Foundation’s ‘fantastic’ partners

    Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, argues that housing is key to achieving other development goals and outlines major obstacles for poor families to have access to decent housing.

    • Top barriers to decent housing

    • How to secure tenure and property rights

    • Housing in Haiti: The next chapter

    • Why housing is crucial to the poverty fight

    • Housing as a development goal: A question of measurement

    • Urbanization’s rapid growth: Are we prepared for it?

    • How Habitat for Humanity works in Arab states

    • Jobs, housing and development

    • ‘Go to the people, live with them, love them’

    • An epidemic deadlier than the Big 3

    • Better than ‘Designing for Impact’

    • A test for iNGOs

    • How to harmonize health funding mechanisms

    • Scaling up health innovations: What the aid community can do better

    • A vision for post-MDGs

    Ritu Sharma, co-founder and president of Women Thrive Worldwide, shares her thoughts on the newly launched U.N. Education First initiative, and what it really takes to encourage children to learn.

    • What can the aid community do better?

    • Trends in innovative designs for education

    • Education First: A panacea to learning crisis?

    • How to improve learning outcomes

    • Let local communities decide

    • Donors working with locals: Very healthy but risky change

    • Finally, learning gets serious attention

    • ‘Our job is to put ourselves out of business’

    Margery Kraus, founder and president of global consulting firm APCO Worldwide, gives advice on what should be considered when crafting post-2015 development goals.

    • Post-MDG architects beware

    Jacob Korenblum, president of SoukTel, discusses how the aid and technology sectors can strengthen their cooperation.

    • How technology firms can work with donors

    • The future of disaster response

    • ICT4Dev’s next frontier

    • ‘Keep it simple’

    • Designing for impact: What can aid groups learn from tech companies?

    • Logistics in Syrian refugee response: Technology makes it easier

    Gail Romero, CEO of MBA Women International, explains what women in development can learn from business leaders, and how aid groups may benefit from an upcoming leadership academy for women.

    • Coming in January 2013: An academy for aspiring women leaders

    • Why corporate investment in sustainability is worth it

    Shai Reshef, president of the University of the People, explains the university’s business model and makes a case for higher education as a focus of the post-Millennium Development Goals process.

    • Self-sustaining, tuition-free: How University of the People does it

    • Adult learning needs attention, too

    • ‘Healthy Communities’ for people with intellectual disabilities

    • The ‘big’ cause of health care fragmentation

    Sheryl Greentree, co-founder of Water for Africa, speaks about how aid groups can ensure projects become self-sustaining and why water should be central to all development projects after 2015.

    • For aid groups, an advice on exit strategy

    • The key to a successful aid model abroad

    • What donors can do better to ensure project sustainability

    • Water in post-MDGs

    Paul Foster, chief marketing officer at Western Union, shares details of his company’s new initiative to help aid groups address the so-called “last mile” challenge.

    • The ‘last mile’ challenge: What NGOs need

    • Western Union: We want to be the global payments hub for NGOs

    Social Good Summit

    How can new technologies help advance development? We asked the experts attending the Social Good Summit, presented by Mashable, the U.N. Foundation and others:

    • Teddy Ruge, Project Diaspora co-founder, and Kris Balderston, U.S. State Department’s global partnerships special representative: Can mobile technology help mobilize the diaspora community?

    • David Kobia, co-founder of global crowdsourcing and mapping nonprofit Ushahidi: Open-source development

    • Asi Burak, Games for Change co-president: Tapping ‘the power of the many’

    Many companies and humanitarian agencies are looking at ways to maximize the potential of technology — including social media — in their sustainability efforts, campaigns and relief response. Some of our interviewees addressed this issue:

    • Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, Ericsson’s vice president of sustainability and corporate responsibility: Ericsson’s nonphilanthropic approach to corporate responsibility

    • Gerrit Beger, UNICEF’s social and civic media section chief: Raising support – and funds – via hashtags

    • Wendy Harman, American Red Cross’ director of social strategy: ‘We are still evolving’

    U.N. General Assembly

    James Michael Jackson, a water and sanitation expert working at the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, appealed to world leaders meeting in New York: Take a tough stance toward Sudan and give refugees confidence in the peace process. Read the Devex exclusive, ”An aid worker’s take: How the UN can prevent human catastrophe in South Sudan.”

    See more of our news coverage of the U.N. General Assembly:

    • Ban Ki-moon puts ‘Education First’

    • New partners, leaders for UN Sustainable Energy for All project

    • Pledges, partnerships for women’s future

    • A pledge for every woman, every child

    • Toward a polio-free world

    • A new joint effort to boost access to contraceptives

    • Fresh funds for Syrian crisis response

    • Toward rural women’s economic empowerment

    • New pledges to close polio funding gap

    • A message to the aid community: Listen to Africans

    • At UN General Assembly, a spotlight on reforms

    • Syrians receive more aid pledges

    Read more development aid news online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders — emailed to you FREE every business day.

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      Eliza Villarino currently manages one of today’s leading publications on humanitarian aid, global health and international development, the weekly GDB. At Devex, she has helped grow a global newsroom, with talented journalists from major development hubs such as Washington, D.C, London and Brussels. She regularly writes about innovations in global development.

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