“If you can’t be an ally then at least don’t make our work more difficult.”

Our plea is that you work with us not against us. We need to be supported, not competed with.

We got aggressive legal threats from Save the Children. Today’s damning report vindicates the whistleblowers, but...

Self-serving, co-opting and damaging behavior by campaigners is possible – but not inevitable.

While cultures of protest are strong, other parts of civil society are getting weaker, with calamitous results.

Combining analysis, outrage and active citizenship can build and sustain large-scale public engagement.

International NGOs have concrete moral and ethical responsibilities in the ways they work overseas that should be...

There is always a line to be drawn between protecting reputation and doing the right thing. Charity trustees should...

Only when myths are revealed as myths can there be a clear-eyed conversation about the best ways forward.

Part two: ‘where next?’ Part one on ‘what went wrong’ can be found here.

Part one: ‘what went wrong?’ Part Two on ‘where next’ can be read here.

Alternative structures are available—if we have the courage to adopt them.

Everyone needs a deep clean from time to time. Best to do it before your teeth get infected.

We should seize this opportunity to re-examine the future of foreign aid.

Is it gratuitous to link the scandal engulfing Oxfam with the need to transform NGOs and foreign aid?

Only one per cent of foreign aid reaches Southern NGOs directly. How long can this continue?

Too small to influence economics, too bureaucratic to be social movements, banned from politics and removed from the...

There are more civil society organizations in the world today than at any other time in history, so why isn't their...

Governments can do little to build civil society directly but much more to strengthen the conditions in which civil...