New: How to organize international events and convenings: a guidance note from local actors on designing events on locally-led development, The Movement for Community Led Development, September 2024 https://mcld.org/2024/09/20/how-to-organise-international-events-and-convenings/
New: Development Interdependence: Locally Driven, Globally Informed, Brookings collection https://www.brookings.edu/articles/development-interdependence-locally-driven-globally-informed/September 2024
New: The INGO Problem: Power, privilege and renewal, Deborah Doane https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/2938/the-ingo-problem September 2024
Promoting Locally Led Development by Design, Susan Njambi Ondogo https://www.ngosource.org/promoting-locally-led-development-by-design, August 2024
Localisation doesn’t shift power. It deepens international dominance. https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2024/07/23/localisation-doesnt-shift-power-it-deepens-international-dominance#msdynttrid=5Z1CxygXJ8w4HdfLeIpco8zfmIxCbFuzImuPuCG2gLI, July 2024
National/Local (NNGO) Voices – Leaders Perspectives on Locally Led Development https://humentum.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/NNGO-Voices-Leader-Perspectives-on-Locally-Led-Development-June-2023.pdf
Reimagining Technical Assistance https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/opinion-reimagining-technical-assistance-to-shift-power-104763 and https://www.jsi.com/rta/
Donor Statement on supporting locally led development https://www.usaid.gov/localization/donor-statement-on-supporting-locally-led-development
Pledge for Change https://pledgeforchange2030.org/ and process by which INGOs worked together to develop it https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2022/10/27/Pledge-Change-aid-reform October 2022
From innovation for localization to local philanthropy, localization and power, a collaborative, experimental project https://globalfundcommunityfoundations.org/resources/from-innovation-for-localization-to-local-philanthropy-localization-and-power/ October 2022
Becoming locally led: a guide to support organisations, BOND, https://www.bond.org.uk/resources/becoming-locally-led-as-an-anti-racist-practice-a-guide/ September 2022
Waters of Systems Change https://www.fsg.org/resource/water_of_systems_change/
Why INGOs Need to do the Heavy Lifting https://www.bond.org.uk/news/2022/09/why-ingos-need-to-do-the-heavy-lifting September 2022
Resources on decolonizing aid curated by the New Humanitarian https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2022/08/12/Decolonising-aid-a-reading-and-resource-list August 2022
Localization, Decolonizing and Shift the Power: Are We Saying the Same Thing? https://shiftthepower.org/2022/06/14/localization-decolonizing-and-shiftthepower-are-we-saying-the-same-thing/, June 2022
Changing your mindset https://jointpurpose.nl/2022/07/mindset-matters/ July 2022
Localisation only pays lip service to fixing aid’s colonial legacy, https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2022/2/8/Localisation-lip-service-fixing-aid-colonial-legacy February 2022
Are We There Yet? Localisation as the Journey to Locally Led Practice https://cdn.odi.org/media/documents/ODI-SH-Localisation-Report-Oct21-Proof06.pdf October 2021
Dear USAID: Let’s Make Sure Local Really Means Local https://www.bond.org.uk/news/2021/11/dear-usaid-lets-make-sure-that-local-really-means-local
Shifting or Sharing Power in International Aid, podcast hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (this is audio, ~ 36 minutes) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XOK2e1JZBpYcAO9qr4nAD November 2021
Rethinking Humanitarian Reform: What Will it Take to Deliver a People-Driven System? https://www.cgdev.org/event/rethinking-humanitarian-reform-what-will-it-take-deliver-people-driven-system September 2021
Shift the Power, “Local philanthropy, localization and power: Communities driving their own development” September 21-23, 2021 https://fb.watch/8blo650b9C/
Planning Guidance for INGOs Working with local groups https://www.stoppingassuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SAS-INGO-Project-Cyclev3.pdf
Re-imagining INGOs May 2021 RINGO workshop report https://rightscolab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/RINGO-Inception-Workshop-Report.pdf
Racism from a Global South perspective https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/31/racism-doesnt-just-exist-within-aid-its-the-structure-the-sector-is-built-on (2021)
Time to Decolonize Aid, Peace Direct, May 2021 https://www.peacedirect.org/us/publications/timetodecoloniseaid/
Hewlett Foundation officer’s reflections (and a short summary on some other efforts) https://hewlett.org/shifting-the-power-in-global-development-should-we-stay-or-should-we-go-now/#globaldev March 2021 and some follow-up posts https://hewlett.org/what-makes-a-good-partnership-transparency-trust-and-a-bit-of-patience/
NGO boards don’t represent who they serve. That must change. https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-ngo-boards-don-t-represent-who-they-serve-that-must-change-100236 (2021)
Four ways to Decolonize Global Health (2022) https://magazine.jhsph.edu/2022/4-ways-decolonize-global-health
Introduction to decoloniality and anti-racism in global health: Student Toolkit https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4664957/ (2022)
Decolonizing Global Health https://www.forbes.com/sites/madhukarpai/2021/07/22/decolonizing-global-health-a-moment-to-reflect-on-a-movement/?sh=317da2055386 (2021)
Community led principles https://globalfundcommunityfoundations.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/WhatDoesItMeanToBeCommunityLed_Jan2021.pdf (2021)
“What if?” Questions with answers for a paradigm shift in the Aid System – a perspective from Haiti (via the CDA Collaborative https://www.cdacollaborative.org/) (2021)
Start Network and local Hubs https://startnetwork.org/news-and-blogs/start-network-support-five-founding-hubs-drive-localisation-aid (2020)
Black Voices in Decolonizing Global Health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6_YEonWcf0– Global Health Council organized 2020