"Sustainable progress towards a fairer world requires people working together to change what is wrong..."

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Sustainable progress towards a fairer world requires people working together to change what is wrong with their society. International aid can help when donor organisations are prepared to support locally generated, sometimes messy and frequently unpredictable processes of positive change.

But today, many donors only want to fund projects for which the exact outcome of their support can be attributed to the donor and determined in advance. This ties the hands of aid recipient organisations. It takes away their ability to consult with their members in response to a local context always in flux. It stops that process of empowerment that happens when individuals and organised groups are able to imagine their world differently and to realise that vision by tackling the injustices in their society.

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Contestations / Dialogues on Women's Empowerment

THIS, a thousand times.

International aid is broken in so many different ways. It's refreshing to see this aspect of it being written about.