Jennifer Lentfer

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Senior Writer, Aid Effectiveness
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202-777-2948

As the creator of how-matters.org, Jennifer Lentfer was named one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "100 women to follow on Twitter" in 2012. She is currently Oxfam America's Senior Writer on Aid Effectiveness. Lentfer has worked with over 300 grassroots organizations in east and southern Africa over the past decade. Follow her on Twitter @intldogooder.

Does your organization unleash demand-driven development?

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Submitted by Jennifer Lentfer on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 5:05am

Aid funders tend to think too much about the supply side of development, and very little about where the demand is coming from. More and more international actors are focusing on building their own skills to accompany, support, and relate more effectively to local institutions and organizations, rather than overpower or co-opt them.

A New Kind of Aid Donor: Four Things They Do Differently

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Submitted by Jennifer Lentfer on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 7:36am

We all know there are aid donors and international funding partners out there that want to change “business as usual” in development (or at least people inside those institutions that do). We also all know that for various reasons, they’re not moving quick enough for those working on the ground.

The Too-Often Forgotten, Yet Critical First Half of M&E

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Submitted by Jennifer Lentfer on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 6:37am

“If you don’t have any sound monitoring data throughout your project, your evaluation is gonna stink anyway.”

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