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CONTENTS
- Editorial 2
- Letters (including Ray Murphy tribute) 3
- News from around the world 6
- Opinion: Bill Drayton 10
- News in brief 12
- What's new at … 14
- Conference reports 18
- UBS Philanthropy Services 20
- Spotlight on business in Argentina 22
- Opinion - Bruce Sievers 23
- Opinion - Nnimmo Bassey 24
- Books 55
ARTICLES
Interview
Ashok Khosla explains why he thinks BOP is too good to be true 25
Intervening at the inflection point
Max Martin talks about how to time a successful philanthropic intervention 27
FOCUS ON … The new challenges of global philanthropy
The guest editors for this Alliance special feature are:
Peter Laugharn, Executive Director of the Bernard van Leer Foundation
Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of CIVICUS
How can we do better?
Peter Laugharn looks at the current state of international funding and makes some suggestions aimed at helping foundations make a more significant contribution 30
Interview
Agnès Binagwaho and Peter Piot talk to Peter Laugharn about how foundations can add value to national efforts in the area of HIV/AIDS 35
International funding – how and why?
Sarah Lock looks at a new study of UK foundations that fund overseas to the tune of less than £1 million a year 39
Still not completely natural?
A number of bilateral funders describe how they see the role of foundations in contributing to international development 41
Supporting civil society – a dogma for our time?
Donors’ exclusive reliance on civil society as the agents of change sometimes does more harm than good, argues Luc Tayart de Borms 45
Hard lessons for economic development
If foundations want to support economic regeneration, they must take on a broker’s role and be prepared to engage with local politics, says Andrés Thompson 47
Obedience to the unenforceable?
Rob Buchanan and Sevdalina Rukanova describe a transatlantic attempt to devise a set of principles of accountability for international philanthropy while Ceri Oliver-Evans describes the Cape Town consultation 49
Voices from the South
Ceri Oliver-Evans describes the Cape Town consultation on the Principles of Accountability for International Philanthropy 51
Philanthropy or foolanthropy?
Kumi Naidoo reflects on the other contributions to the special feature and puts forward his own six suggestions to make global philanthropy more effective 52
From Alliance, Vol 12, No 2, June 2007
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