Why the National Community Driven Development Project (NCDDP) matters for Myanmar citizens
The World Bank funded NCDDP is one of the biggest aid interventions Myanmar has ever seen. The current project is over half a billion US...
Why don't donors 'think and act politically' in their own countries?
A Myanmar aid worker asks why Western donors don't 'think and act politically' in their own countries. I just came back from the workshop...
Is the World Bank's program really community led?
ကမၻာ့ဘဏ္စီမံကိန္း လူထုတစ္ကယ္ဦးေဆာင္ေနလား … မၾကာေသးမီက IFI Watch ျမန္မာ (နိုင္ငံတကာဘ႑ာေရးအဖြဲ႔အမ်ားေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေလ့လာေရး အဖြဲ႔-ျမန္မာ) ရဲ ႔...
Complexity...
ရႈပ္ေထြးလာေသာဖြ႔ံျဖိဳးေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား … ေျမယာအေရးလႈပ္ရွားသူတစ္ဦး၏အေျပာင္းအလဲအျမင္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔နိုင္ငံမွာ အခ်ိန္နဲ႔အမ်ွ လ်င္ျမန္တဲ့...
On the United Nations and youth policy in Myanmar
It is often difficult for members of local organisations to voice their concerns, especially about the shortcomings of international aid...
Are you a development worker who loves doing photography?
Are you a development worker who loves doing photography? Then we would like to talk to you. The PK Forum is planning a new series...
Language matters in development
ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရးနယ္ပယ္မွာ ဘာသာစကားေတြရဲ႕အေရးပါမႈက အရမ္းအေရးႀကီးတယ္ဆိုတဲ့အေၾကာင္းကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေရးခဲ့ဖူးပါတယ္။ အခုလည္း...
Where to for international NGOs?
International NGOs like Oxfam face new challenges to their role in Myanmar. The key question is whether they can move into a new era...
The limits of a rights based approach
"Approaches" need to be built from the ground up, and not in NGO head offices. A couple of years ago I helped to do a context analysis...
Where will the donor money go in Myanmar?
Pyae Phyo Maung explores the question of how much donor funding for local organisations will be diverted to the new government, and the...