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Published in: Home: OpinionNew foreign secretary James Cleverly must tackle UK aid transparency crisisOPINION: Transparency over the aid budget is vital to restoring trust and the UK’s good standing
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Published in: Home: OpinionInternational aid is racist, say MPs – academics must help decolonise itA committee of British MPs says aid is structurally racist – but even academics seem stuck in colonial thinking
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy the UK government’s international development strategy is a big gambleMarginalised groups will suffer most from a policy shift away from ‘bottom-up’ development to a more top-down approach
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsTory rebellion grows over Boris Johnson’s ‘grotesque’ foreign aid cutsSource tells openDemocracy government could be set to reverse foreign aid cuts amid threat of Commons defeat as...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: News‘Worse than a crime’: Johnson cutting aid to ‘pander’ to Red Wall, says Tory MPDecision to slash aid to poorest countries made for ‘cultural reasons’ not economic ones, says former international...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK government plans 80% cuts to ‘world-leading’ anti-corruption workExclusive: Government accused of ‘turning its back on the world’, as leaks suggest cuts to anti-corruption, human...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationUK government accused of ‘grotesque betrayal’ as full foreign aid cuts revealedExclusive: Leaks reveal plans to slash aid to world’s poorest countries. Bob Geldof brands move ‘shameful’ while...
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Published in: TransformationHealing solidarity: re-imagining international developmentNGOs and other aid agencies need to lead in the practice of re-distributing wealth and power—not just the theory.
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Published in: TransformationForeign aid is a waste of money—unless it’s used for transformationSimplistic stories of saving children trap aid agencies inside a self-defeating logic
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Published in: TransformationHorizontalising international NGOs: can it be done?Alternative structures are available—if we have the courage to adopt them.
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Published in: TransformationWhat’s it all about, Oxfam?We should seize this opportunity to re-examine the future of foreign aid.
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Published in: TransformationWhat’s to be done with Oxfam, part 2?Is it gratuitous to link the scandal engulfing Oxfam with the need to transform NGOs and foreign aid?
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Published in: TransformationThe inconvenient truth about foreign aidFor recipients aid has been a very mixed blessing, but for donors it’s been a bonanza.
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Published in: TransformationWhat’s to be done with Oxfam?Too small to influence economics, too bureaucratic to be social movements, banned from politics and removed from the...
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Published in: TransformationDoes value for money help or hinder the search for social transformation?Governments’ obsession with cost-effectiveness is supposed to increase the impact of public spending. In reality...
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Published in: TransformationI am sorry for you, you mean well: trust and history in the making of a better worldWhy do foreign aid and advice so often fail? A transformative social vision means nothing without humility.
