whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. After Enron: the Corporate Governance of Corporate Social Investment
(Analysis/Analysis)

... this week in Cape Town, he expressed concern at the way in which corporate benevolence is not subjected to scrutiny. "We need to move away from the idea of corporate philanthropy to integrating...

2. Demonstration Health HIV / AIDS Orphanage A
(Ratings Demonstration/Demonstration)

...focus Negative Rating Factors: The cluster is expensive to run and the remoteness of financial scrutiny is leading to inefficiences Aspects Inception, Participation & Infras...

3. Development organisations need to engage with ratings agencies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s, of Microsoft, and Pierre Omidyar, of eBay. As they do so they are being subjected to an unusual form of scrutiny – for development organisations (commercial organisations have been used to t...

4. Lies, damned lies, and curriculum vitae; or why ratings may be the future of education
(Analysis/Analysis)

...given the incredible unemployment levels and the terrible staff shortages, many people are hired on limited scrutiny and turn out to have wholly fabricated curriculum vitae.  It is no wonder that...

5. Mama Jackie - the "Angel of Soweto" - assaults a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

... Even where outright illegality is not taking place, every charity benefits when donors know that impartial scrutiny is taking place and ensuring a continuing standard of service and efficiency....

6. The lack of feedback and accountability is fatal to aid effectiveness
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Vascular manufactures cardiovascular stents.  A failure of the product can result in fatalities.  Scrutiny is quite a costly business but consumers are probably happy that this type of evalu...

7. The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...lled with corruption, oligarchs and dramatic differences between rich and poor.  It requires continual scrutiny and feedback. In this new year of 2007 let us start a conversation about developmen...