As
the capacity of local players grows and
sustainability concerns heighten, INGOs must
become good partners, facilitators, brokers and
capacity builders. Acquiring these competencies
and learning to leverage them to add value will
be essential. Playing a support role may imply
shrinking in size (in terms of budgets and
size). The need to make a valuable contribution
in an increasingly crowded landscape by playing
new roles may demand a rethinking of INGO
business models.”
Sherine
Jayawickrama
Approaches to
Development and Humanitarian Action: NGO
Profiles and Synthesis
November
2010
Domain Manager, Humanitarian and Development NGOs
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
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Email: sherine_jayawickrama@harvard.edu
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Sherine Jayawickrama manages the Humanitarian & Development NGOs domain of practice at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, which seeks to enhance the impact of the field by strengthening interactions between scholars and practitioners and developing research of relevance to organizations working in this field. She is also executive director of the NGO Leaders Forum, a semi-annual retreat for chief executives of major U.S.-based international relief and development NGOs to build trust, explore frontier challenges and consider collective action on pressing issues.
Ms. Jayawickrama worked for ten years at CARE USA in a variety of positions, including deputy regional director for Asia, senior policy analyst and special assistant to the president. Earlier in her career, she worked on freedom of expression issues at PEN American Center in New York City and on environmental policy issues in Sri Lanka at the Natural Resources & Environmental Policy Project (NAREPP). She grew up in Sri Lanka, and has a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Scripps College, and an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
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