Aid as reparations is misplaced and harmful
International aid as a form of reparations by former colonial powers to their former colonies has remained a popular notion ...
How child sponsorship commodifies children
Conventional child sponsorship, like a lot of other development work, is designed to position recipients as static, helpless, and uninvolved ...
De-linking power from wealth
We reimagine what the world and international development would look like if we de-linked power from wealth that creates artificial ...
Confronting the silence of our philanthropic actions
Some philanthropic players have spoken up against vaccine discrimination toward the Global South but most are still silent ...
Making the invisible visible: #ShiftThePower, mapping and meaning
Over the past two years, participants in the #ShiftThePower movement have created a vibrant, living, and evolving network map of ...
Time to rethink “capacity” in the Global South
Authentic capacity does not have to be pegged against parameters, or measures that have no bearing to local realities ...
The road travelled and the road ahead: A conversation with Tatiana Fraga Diez as Comunalia turns ten
The GFCF checked in with Tatiana to discuss the work of Comunlia ...
A visual journey of shifting power: Dalia Association in Palestine
The Dalia Association in Palestine is happy and honoured to be curating the Treehouse for the week of 20th - ...
#ShiftThePower and Us: Reconstruction Women’s Fund
It is never just about a single issue. This simple truth shaped our politics into understanding that, for a community ...
The birth of #ShiftThePower
The deliberate use of the hashtag #ShiftThePower was intended to provoke. Frustrations about the shortcomings of philanthropy and development aid ...
