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Published in: 50.50: NewsUgandan charity regulator accused of targeting LGBTIQ groups to avoid austerityRights campaigners believe Uganda’s charity regulator is using an anti-LGBTIQ agenda to save itself from austerity cuts
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Published in: oDR: ExplainerDonations worth millions fail to reach Ukraine – sparking calls for changeAid delays have exposed a deep power imbalance between Ukrainians and the international actors claiming to help them.
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Published in: Home: OpinionDecolonisation is a comfortable buzzword for the aid sectorThe Global South must end regional inequality on its own terms – not the North’s.
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Published in: Home: OpinionNGOs must decolonise aid relief, says Oxfam UK CEOActivists were right to criticise big organisations for failing to share power, writes Danny Sriskandarajah.
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Published in: Transformation100 years of Save the Children UK: what have we learned?INGO leaders must strike a balance between vision and pragmatism to be effective, but values still come first.
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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: TransformationCould NGOs flourish in a future without foreign aid?Only when myths are revealed as myths can there be a clear-eyed conversation about the best ways forward.
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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 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: oDRUnion-busting, Russian styleThe Russian authorities are using “foreign agent” legislation against MPRA, the closest thing Russia has to an...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSupporting refugee livelihoods or host stability? The two sides of the coinFor many refugees, the humanitarian programmes focusing on "livelihoods" end up having merely an "accessory" role...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLaying the foundations for a totalitarian stateThe Egyptian regime is moving decisively to close what remains of public space, dominating all aspects of political...
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Published in: oDRIn Russia, 26 March continuesTwo weeks after Russia’s anti-corruption protests, activists and participants are still being tried, arrested and...
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Published in: TransformationRecomposing the fabric of affectionLiving well together helps everyone to be connected, and it’s connection that makes us thrive as human beings. Español
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Published in: TransformationFive disempowering traits that international NGOs must dropOnly one per cent of foreign aid reaches Southern NGOs directly. How long can this continue?
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Published in: oDRWhy Russia needs the Levada CenterIndependent sociological research in Russia is under serious threat. The country’s leading non-governmental polling...
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Published in: TransformationWildlife conservationists need to break out of their Stockholm syndromeInstead of fighting a destructive economic system, international conservation NGOs are bonding with its brutality.
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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: TransformationDesigner activism and post-democracyFor campaigners committed to transformational social change, the unscripted howl of celebrities is a weak peg on...
