FutureGenerations

Bill Carmichael, Chairman of the Board of Future Generations, shares his experience in building the capacity of civil society organizations with the Ford Foundation from 1968 - 1989. Caroline Hartnell interviews Bill Carmichael for Alliance magazine's June 2009 issue focused on philanthropy’s role in promoting democracy and civil society.

In April 2006, a large scale people’s movement, known as the Jana Andolan II, was initiated against the King Gyanendra’s direct rule, on the basis of a 12-point understanding reached between the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (CPN-M) and the Seven Party Alliance.

Guyana's 2006 general and regional elections were the first in recent history un-marred by post-election violence.   The polls of 1992, 1997 and 2001 were each followed by several months of heightened insecurity, injuries and deaths from public violence and ethnically motivated attacks on citizens, and loss of property to arson, provoking fears of a return to the ethnic rioting that killed hundreds in the 1960s.

Health sector reforms in Peru, despite nearly a decade of reform efforts, are best described as piecemeal. The reform project itself lacked a comprehensive vision, and the resulting policies often either conflicted with each other, or with the stated overall goals of health sector reform: “a reform with equity, efficiency and quality”. Major health indicators, moreover, show improvement in health status, but these improvements are not substantially different from improvements in non-reform, and even crisis periods of the health sector.