The call to change the balance of power in development cooperation is getting louder and louder. It is time for more local ownership of the   global agenda, everyone seems to agree. There is even a real movement under the hashtag #ShiftThePower.  The development community has been talking about this for decades now, but what has changed? In this new Podcast series of Disrupt Development I am going unpack the #ShiftThePower debate with great minds.          

In this #3 episode of the #ShiftThePower series together with Robert Wiggers we are going to talk about dependancy in development aid. What changes development aid has gone through in the past 30 years, how local organisations have internalized the priorities of Northern-led organisations, why we need to go back to the roots of development aid and how we need to Change the Game. 

Robert Wiggers is the Deputy Director of Wilde Ganzen, a Foundation that supports hundreds of small-scale philanthropic initiatives globally. He is also the founder and driving force behind the Change the Game Acadamy, an innovative blended learning acadamy that aims to end the dependency of civil society from the global south on international donors.  Robert is an historian and having worked for more then 30 years in development aid he is strongly convinced that we need to change the game.