Colombia, here we come! Bogotá to host the 2023 #ShiftThePower Global Summit
We are excited to announce that the 2023 #ShiftThePower Summit will take place in Bogotá! The Colombian hosts for this global event, which will take …
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Are funders ready for mutual accountability?
Local organizations receiving funding are, by default, expected to transparently share intimate details about themselves (When were you founded? Who is on your board? Who are your donors? What do your policies look like?… For fear of seeming difficult to work with, local organizations will not risk asking equally pertinent questions about the potential partners that they intend to collaborate with.
An open letter to international donors and NGOs who want to genuinely help Ukraine
This letter originally appears on the website of the National Network of Local Philanthropy Development in Ukraine. We welcome you to add your signature to this letter – as an individual or as an organization.
Myths of preparedness: What we’ve learnt from the pandemic
Is preparedness for the pandemic and for other disasters a myth or a reality? Whatever might be claimed at national or global level, the test of preparedness is what happens at local level.
Decolonization cannot be cosmetic: Moving the development industry beyond rhetoric
There can be no band-aid solutions to reversing the insidious and perverse nature of coloniality. For those of us in the Global South, decolonization is a reassertion of self-determination and agency. It is redistribution of wealth and capital, access, and space.
A new path to mentorship for emerging global health leaders in low-income and middle-income countries
The fifth annual Global Health 50/50 report highlighted that 75% of the 2,000 governing board seats are held by high-income countries (HICs), of which 51% are from two countries (USA and UK), while a mere 2.5% are held by people from low-income countries (LICs). Given this evidence, it is imperative to mentor early-career and mid-career global health professionals from low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) as leaders to improve diversity of boards at the global level.
Localization, decolonizing and #ShiftThePower; are we saying the same thing?
Many advocates of localization would prefer to ignore the issue of racism, hoping that it will go away or that localization can somehow reform the system without tackling the neo-colonial mindsets on which the current system is built.
Can money buy everything? Resourcing in the new system
When we think capital or resources (I will use those terms inter-changeably) we often tend to automatically think money, finances, cash, funds. Yes, of course it is one kind of resource. But is it the only kind that makes things happen
Moving from the old to the new: Why it’s time to rethink civil society resourcing
If we want to shift from the “system we have”, to “the system we want”, what needs to change? What will the new system look like? What will it take to move from where we are to where we want to be?
Announcing the 2022 #ShiftThePower Fellows
The six-month Fellowship is an experimental approach aimed at strengthening the collective “weave” between change-makers around the world and, by doing so, at deepening and expanding the #ShiftThePower movement.