What now? Beyond the #OxfamScandal
Why we need to focus now on addressing power imbalances between the Global South and the Global North in the international aid and philanthropy sector
Why we need to focus now on addressing power imbalances between the Global South and the Global North in the international aid and philanthropy sector
Here’s 3 ways an unchecked ego can trip us up, and suggestions for how to prevent this.
Step 1: We admit we are powerless over a project-based mentality–that when we considered the changing world, our frameworks and tools as they had come to define us have become obsolete.
4 new ways to think about foreign aid’s role in fighting corruption around the world.
Here’s to the ones who ask “why” openly in meetings because they just can’t tolerate the façade of “doing good.”
“Both aid and aid reform distract us from real social change, allowing the powers-that-be to get on with their business of saying one thing and doing another.” Reflections one year after Busan from Nora Lester Murad.
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Paper Over People” by yours truly.
The estimated 595,000 aid workers around the world (ALNAP, 2010) are rarely called to examine the bureaucratic rigidities that govern their day-to-day work. By supporting each other to create more trust, equity and mutual accountability with those we serve in the developing world, system-wide reform becomes more possible.
Nora Lester Murad of the Dalia Association, Palestine’s first and only community foundation, shares their progress in a current advocacy campaign to reform international aid in Palestine and poses questions to how-matters.org readers.
Live tweet transcript from Oxfam’s “The Road to Busan: Ensuring Citizens Drive Their Own Development” session at the World Bank/IMF spring meetings…and a Beatle sings about development?
An overview of the session, “Winds of Change: Will it bring a new development paradigm?” that will take place this week during the World Bank/IMF spring meetings. Join the webcast on Friday, April 15th at 2pm EST (6pm GMT).
I believe that our role as “outsiders,” whether we are working for a multilateral donor in Nairobi or having wanderlust dreams during our unfulfilling job in Ohio, must be about getting community leaders the resources that they need to address their own priorities.