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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I am neither powerless or powerful, so where is my place in #ShiftThePower?
When I first got the request to write this piece after a webinar on the challenges to #ShiftThePower I was ...
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 ...
Re-imagining development: The case of Uganda
In 2021, Ugandan civil society was being beaten on multiple fronts. As the pandemic forced lock-downs, the country faced simultaneous ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
