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A new style of development reporting? Pope Francis’s love letter to the Amazon

Guest post by Séverine Deneulin On the 12th February, Pope Francis released Querida Amazonia, a poetic love letter to the Amazon region and its peoples, and from them to the whole world. The letter is one outcome of a gathering last October of 200 religious leaders working in the Amazon region, indigenous peoples and other […]

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How Change Happens within Government: A Masterclass from a Whitehall Veteran

I chaired a panel at LSE recently that included DFID lifer Phil Mason, who ran its Anti-Corruption Unit (reviewed here) after it was set up in 2000 by Clare Short. Phil had a big challenge – he had to persuade other Whitehall departments to get behind the idea, when they often had very different priorities. […]

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Links I Liked

Fancy some good news on an epidemic? DRC: Last Ebola patient discharged with end of outbreak in sight. Check out Oxfam’s Make Change Happen MOOC (free online course), now in its 4th outing. Hundreds of great activists worldwide swapping stories and sharpening ideas. Why did this UN ad irk women aid workers? ←←← No words […]

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Things to read or listen to on International Women’s Day

Some recent-ish FP2P/Oxfam Posts and Podcasts: A recent Oxfam panel on Feminist leadership in the hardest places to be a woman, with Annie Kelly, Fenella Porter, Hala Al-Karib, Rasha Obaid, Preet Kaur Gill and Riya William Yuyada Can we Get Davos talking about the Care Economy and Feminist Economics? Caroline Sweetman on What’s special about feminist research? Njoki Njehu on inequality […]

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Development Nutshell: Audio Summary of FP2P posts, fortnight beginning 24th Feb

Bumper crop this week, so 22 minutes of me summing up

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After 30 years of negotiations, where next on the climate crisis? In conversation with Saleemul Huq.

I sat down recently with Saleemul Huq, a scientist and activist who has attended every single global negotiation on climate change since 1992. Saleem is Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh and Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) in London. We discussed the […]

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A new model of development for unleashing social entrepreneurship: Grow Nepal

For a while now, I’ve been suggesting Oxfam make a conscious effort to ‘seed the ecosystem’ by spinning off more start-up organizations that can be more agile and responsive than our big bureaucracy. So I was delighted to find our team in Nepal are already doing it. Guest post by Prakash Subedi, CEO, Grow Nepal […]

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What values should guide Britain’s role in the world, post-Brexit?

Oxfam today publishes (with UK think tank, the Foreign Policy Centre) a collection of essays from parliamentarians and policy experts called ‘Finding Britain’s role in a changing world: building a values based foreign policy’. Here are a few highlights from the conclusion, snappily written by Adam Hug, Abigael Baldoumas, Katy Chakrabortty and Danny Sriskandarajah: ‘The […]

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Could Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum help us have a more grown-up conversation about aid?

This post got a lot of help from Severine Deneulin – thanks! I get a bit frustrated with the conversation on aid – too often, we seem to be expected to pick one of two equally unappealing camps: ‘all aid is bad’ v ‘all aid is good’. People tend to land on a single issue […]

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Confessions of a gender advisor: Why I avoid the word “empowerment”

Sabine Garbarino is an independent gender and inclusion consultant specialising in economic development programming. I have a confession: I’ve recently banned colleagues at a private sector development programme in Liberia from using the term empowerment or women’s economic empowerment or WEE.  Here is why (and it’s not just my personal dislike of an unfortunate abbreviation):  Language matters Over […]

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