Forum 2013 Tuesday

Five Minutes at Forum with Linda Raftree

"We do accountability work around the world. And if we are going to be encouraging communities to hold different kinds of leaders accountable, we need to also be accountable ourselves," said Linda Raftree, of Plan USA, during an interview with Laia Grino. Raftree, a Forum 2013 workshop panelist, also explains how to move your organization closer to achieving these goals.

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Plenary: Innovation in Relief, Development

 It’s the nonprofit’s constant challenge: you know your work is good, important and worthy. So how do you convince everyone else? Read the article.

People often equate innovation solely with technological breakthroughs, but in reality, innovation goes far beyond that. Read the article.

Five Minutes at Forum with Lola Dare

Oluwafunmilola Dare, CEO of the Centre for Health Sciences Training, Research and Development, talks to InterAction's Keith Ives about the need for partner accountability in the post-2015 agenda. Dare, who spoke on a workshop panel for young professionals, also had words of advice for people at the start of their careers. "One of the things I enjoyed about being young was the capacity to take risks without thinking too much about the consequences," she said. "That allowed us to push envelopes – to do things that we didn't think could be done."

Five Minutes at Forum with Greg Adams

InterAction's Jeremy Kadden sits down with Greg Adams from Oxfam America to talk about the Global Partnerships Act – a foreign aid reform bill reintroduced in Congress on April 26. Calling the bill's language "a remarkable achievement" alone, Adams said: "The most important reason why we need rewrite this legislation is to try to get a new consensus between the president, the Congress and the American people about what we're actually trying to achieve with our foreign development programs and what success looks like."