This briefing paper outlines the links between the impacts of the women’s rights organizations’ work and the advancement of the WPS agenda. On the 23rd anniversary of the first UN Security Council Re
Facilitating change: localising monitoring, evaluation and learning
How do we create the tools and environment needed to recentre monitoring, evaluation and learning in the populations development programmes are delivered in?
Learning from partnership: Effective donor support to civil society-led peacebuilding
Donor governments and multilateral institutions recognise that a diverse, resilient and effective civil society is key to increased peace and stability in conflict-affected contexts. Yet there are
Integrating gender in the DNA of peacebuilding: Learning with peers
Peacebuilding and conflict resolution organisations have worked to address structural inequalities and power dynamics core to gender inequality in the contexts in which they are working. Yet there ha
Localisation Re-imagined: Fertilising the soil of state-led solutions
In this second article, Arbie considered the state’s role within the localisation agenda and how international actors do, or do not, work with national governments
Decolonisation is a comfortable buzzword for the aid sector
Decolonisation is fast becoming a buzzword for those who are critically examining the practices and objectives of the international aid industry along with many other sectors. It is seen as the way t
Reparations as Philanthropy: Radically Rethinking ‘Giving’ in Africa
Uzodinma Iweala, 35, is an author who lives in New York and Lagos. This is a slightly modified version of the opening talk he gave at the conference 'Rethinking philanthropy' organized on October 12
What Does It Mean to Decolonize the Future?
Everyone is talking about decolonizing these days and we have been wrestling with this topic too. While we don’t have a definite answer, we are sharing our working notes in the hopes that it contribu
Knowledge in Times of Crisis: Transforming Research-to-Policy Approaches
The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented challenges for researchers and policy analysts, and accentuated the need for access to civil society and advocacy movements within politically closed s
Mobilising knowledge with care and intent
As the world faces increasingly frequent and interconnected deadly crisis, the urgency to identify effective responses has never been felt more acutely. Locally driven responses to the recent Covid-1