Another Way Is Possible

Another Way Is Possible

#ShiftThePower and Me: A projector, a flip chart and how I am finding my way.

#ShiftThePower and Me: A projector, a flip chart and how I am finding my way.

I spent more time on logical frameworks, understanding donor and back donor compliance requirements, preparing and amending contracts, reviewing budgets, ...
#ShiftThePower and Me: Direction, flexibility and collective action – my time leading a community foundation in Brazil

#ShiftThePower and Me: Direction, flexibility and collective action – my time leading a community foundation in Brazil

In my humble opinion, ICOM’s story is worth telling because of what we managed to achieve in terms of building ...
Navigating the violent process of decolonization

Navigating the violent process of decolonization

Speaking up is also an opportunity to continue the virtuous cycle of compassion for the many researchers in low income ...
Aid as reparations is misplaced and harmful

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...