Rethinking civil society resourcing
In Zambia, [which, as a middle-income country, is starting to see international donor funding drop off], discussions around civil society ...
Aid reformers have been talking to each other, it is time to talk to the public
The public in donor countries should be entrusted with more than this half story – their tax paying vested interests ...
#ShiftThePower Manifesto for Change: Where it started and where we are now
It was three years ago – in what feels like a very different world – that a small group of ...
Call for expressions of interest to join the inaugural cohort of #ShiftThePower fellows!
Are you interested in supporting broader efforts to shift power and build the (civil) society we want by helping to ...
#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
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
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
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 ...
