LISTING OF SUBJECTS
SECTION 1
- The State of the Relief and Development Sector.
- Where We Are! How and Why?
- So Many Things Are Wrong
- A dialog about the dynamic of how and why many things are wrong
- Lack of decent accounting.
- [Box: Delayed accounting is no accounting].
- Abdication of the accountants.
- No space for measurement, analysis and review.
- There's a hole in the bucket.
- Very little of the funding gets to beneficiaries.
- Corruption.
- [Box: Corruption in Nigeria since the 1970s].
- [Box: Losing trust in Nigeria in 1975].
- [Box:Making corrupt money in fisheries in Burma].
- Debt.
- Debt cancellation, restructuring ... whatever.
- [Box: An experience in Namibia].
- Value destruction.
- Value destroying projects.
- [Box: Value destruction in South Sudan].
- Cost and value of workshops and conferences.
- Cost and value of research and studies.
- [Box: A study of studies in Lesotho.
- No oversight.
- [Box: Internal audit and Oversight].
- [Box: Oversight and control]. Performance oversight.
- [Box: Global Fund].
- Whistle blowers.
- A system without accountability.
- [Box: Management Accounting for UNDP].
- Economic hit men.
- Foreign direct investment.
- The value chain and value destruction.
- Complexity.
SECTION 2
- A Way Forward.
- Evolutionary Solutions
- Unlocking Latent Potential.
- Optimizing What There Is.
- Starting point.
- Small steps.
- There is no one best way.
- [Box: Getting
- good results when there is chaos]. Process. [Box: Water skiing ...
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- skiing moguls]. Planning. Organize. Implement. Measurement.
- Feedback.
- Adjustment.
- Who does all of this?
- How does this get coordinated?
- Do the most with the least.
- Do the most with what is available.
- [Box: Making the most of what you have].
- [Box:Performance].
- [Box: The thermodynamic idea of efficiency].
- [Box: Organizational differences].
- Organization: Management Information,
- Planning and Process
- Organization.
- Management Information.
- Information.
- Documenting success.
- Coherent framework of analysis.
- Balance Sheet.
- Resources.
- Constraints.
- Statistics.
- Measuring efficiency.
- Fund raising information.
- Walking, not just talking.
- [Box: ActionAid and my own experience].
- Managing information for effectiveness and security.
- Characteristics of good management information.
- Metrics for community progress.
- [Box: Okehamption, my home town].
- Keeping score.
- Cost accounting.
- [Box: Cost analysis as foundation for strategic decisions].
- Standard costing.
- Budget and cost control.
- [Box: Cost analysis and cost control]
- Management by Objective (MBO).
- Change.
- Explaining organizational performance.
- Ignorance had consequences.
- [Box: Bad costing in heavy engineering in the UK].
- [Box: Bad costing in a foundry in the USA].
- You don't know what you don't know.
- [Box: Doing the most with the least].
- Accounting and accountability.
- Value adding or value destruction.
- Value chain.
- Data architecture.
- Easily accessible from anywhere.
- Management reports.
- Transparency. Transparency and accountability.
- Oversight.
- Community based metrics.
- [Box: Community metrics].
- Planning and Process.
- Linkages.
- People, organization and money.
- [Box: Rebuilding Europe after World War II].
- Too much planning, not enough organization.
- Removing constraints.
- [Box: Removing constraints].
- Monitoring and evaluation.
- Resources.
- People.
- Organization.
- Infrastructure.
- Natural resources.
- Machinery and equipment.
- Working capital.
- Knowledge.
- Money.
- Constraints.
- Creating value from natural resources.
- Who makes decisions?
- Make knowledge a key driver.
- Make community the focus of development.
- Jobs.
- Ownership.
- Deploying best practices.
- Ethical standards.
- Standards for workplace safety.
- [Box: Workplace safety].
- Organizing in the face of poor infrastructure.
- [Box: The Challenge of Infrastructure].
- Creating trust.
- Oversight.
- Money
- Money, catalyst for performance.
- Money, the root of all evil.
- Building trust.
- Engaging the world's financial leaders.
- [Box: When New York was in financial trouble].
- World Bank for public finance.
- [Box: World Bank for public finance].
- Mutual funds for socio-economic investment.
- [Box: Investment Clubs].
- Mobilizing money.
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