About Sogge David
David Sogge works as an independent researcher based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he is board secretary of the Transnational Institute, a worldwide fellowship of scholar activists. Formally educated at Harvard and Princeton in the US, and the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the Netherlands, he has worked since 1970 in the foreign aid industry, including assignments for bilateral and multilateral agencies, mainly regarding civil society. He has authored and co-authored books such as Compassion and Calculation: The Business of Private Foreign Aid (Pluto Press,1996), and Give and Take. What’s the Matter with Foreign Aid (Zed Books, 2002).
By Sogge David
NGOs have been joining forces to increase their effectiveness. They need to form alliances with social movements as well, however, to avoid working in isolation from broader social currents. read more >>
David Sogge is an independent consultant for grant-making agencies, specialising in civil society read more >>
A Review of The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors, edited by Lindsay Whitfield Who calls the shots in the aid encounter? In the main, it’s the donors. But surely this is now improving, thanks to new recipient-friendly aid policies? Alas, that is not the case. If anything, the dominance of donors and their entanglement in African governance are becoming more intense. read more >>
Even in summary form, the IOB’s assessment of Dutch Africa policy 1998–2006 provides plenty of reasons to sit up and pay attention. In our public forums on aid, its findings might help bring into public view what have until now been merely rumblings backstage. read more >>
