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Bullshit without Borders: Let's Change the Way We Change the World

by Susan M. Davis

Rethinking international aid from the ground up

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Rethinking international aid from the ground up

Drawing on Susan M. Davis’s three decades in international development, this book questions whether established aid practices achieve the outcomes they promise. Its examples range from a startup that became Water.org to work on a multi-million-dollar USAID contract, with a focus on how well-intentioned interventions can miss the needs of the people they aim to serve. Davis argues for a shift in how outsiders approach social impact, beginning with listening to communities closest to the problems. The book’s central subject is the tension between the aims of poverty-focused aid and the effects of the systems built to deliver it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in international development and aid organizations.
  • For changemakers examining how social-impact work is designed and carried out.
  • For readers interested in community-led approaches to poverty-related challenges.

Themes

International developmentAid and philanthropyCommunity-led social impactPoverty and charitable water projects

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Book overview

For the next generation of changemakers who care too much to settle for just good intentions.

 

The system of "saving the world" is broken-and it's time to call bullshit. After seeing good intentions lead to bad outcomes in 30 countries, international development veteran Susan M. Davis is challenging the sacred cows of the aid industrial complex. She urges a radical rethink of how Global North outsiders approach social impact, starting with listening to the people closest to the problem.

 

Drawing from three decades of experience, from a scrappy startup that became Water.org to managing a multi-million-dollar USAID contract, Davis reveals the shocking truth: the system designed to end poverty may be perpetuating it. For example, half of all charitable water projects fail today, just as they did in the 1980s.

 

Bullshit without Borders is a provocative, self-implicating, and often hilarious expos

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