The first assumption
How do our roles change if our first responsibility is to do justice to the vast and vital efforts of visionary leaders in the Global South?
How do our roles change if our first responsibility is to do justice to the vast and vital efforts of visionary leaders in the Global South?
A local sovereign organisation is an authentic expression of the will and voice of its own constituents. While it may accept funding to provide services, it is not a surrogate vehicle for the projects of another agency’s purpose.
Sovereignty is both a quality to be developed and a right to be respected and defended. It is a particularly powerful concept when applied to organisation, suggesting authentic qualities, describing a home-grown resilience, an inside-out identity, the idea of an organisation being the expression of the free will of its own constituents.