About this event
Making Time to Listen: A Conversation with Dayna Brown
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Evidence presented in the recently released book Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Received End of International Assistance suggests that people
in countries that receive aid want smarter aid, not necessarily more aid. They want to be more engaged and to have more voice and decision-making power in how aid efforts are conceived, funded, carried out and evaluated. Learn more about these findings—relevant for both international and domestic NGOs—and others presented in Time to Listen, and join in a Q+A session. Guests are welcome to bring their lunch.
Hear Dayna Brown, the Director of the Listening Program at CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, present a summary of the findings from interviews with nearly 6,000 people in 20 aid receiving countries and aid workers on the effectiveness of international aid efforts, as captured through The Listening Project.
“Time to Listen is both radical and practical. All who are engaged with international assistance—whether as politician, policy-maker, official,
consultant, volunteer, technical expert, practitioner, analyst, activist or field worker—should hear, take to heart, and act on the voices and ideas in this book. Ignorance or lack of ideas of what to do can now never be an excuse.” Dr. Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies
Dayna Brown has more than 20 years of international development experience
– including with Mercy Corps – and has lived and worked in Indonesia, Kenya, Kosovo, and Tanzania, and has undertaken short-term assignments in
many other countries.