Book Review: The Plague Cycle; Paths to Shift Power and Imagination in Development; Where have we got to in Understanding Power as the basis for Activism?; Trust, Politics, Exhaustion and Anger: findings on Emergent Agency in a time of Covid; Book Review: The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa; Programming in Chaos. 

Links I Liked; 'Development': A visual story of shifting power (en ingles y espanhol); Is the UK diverting Covid vaccines from poorer countries?

Africa's Land Rush - what do we really know?  Water Defenders v Big Gold – a real life David and Goliath story with a happy ending; What can we learn from 200 case studies of 'emergent agency in a time of Covid'? What is COVID-19 telling us about leadership? 

Links I Liked; Back to the Old Drawing Board: the power of humour in social change; How a ‘public authority’ lens can help us understand NGOs and INGOs; A historic legal victory for climate justice in France 

How a Women’s Organization became ‘chief architects’ of the COVID-19 response in Southern India; Who loses out from Open Access journals? Plus the weirdness of the Magisterium; Top Tips for giving presentations in a second language; ‘Do-it-yourself development’: the world of citizen aid and what to do about it

Links I Liked; How can a Book Change the World? The theory of action behind Kate Raworth and the Doughnut Economics Action Lab; Watching the ICC Judgement of LRA commander Dominic Ongwen with Ugandan victims of enforced marriage; When throwing evidence and facts is not enough. How Change Happens in the Humanitarian System 

Links I Liked; After Covid, what next for the world’s kids?; How to change policy and practice at city level? A discussion with some influencers?; What kinds of 'Agency' are emerging as grassroots organizations respond to Covid?

Links I Liked; Seizing a window of opportunity: lessons from research on anti-corruption reform; Is Campaigning on Inequality harder? Here's what some of the world's inequality activists said; Words to sprinkle, camouflage and befuddle: Idle musings on the slipperiness of language 

Imagining the world anew: gender equality and women’s rights - Part 2; Three dreams we must dream when writing Chile’s new constitution; How to think about Power - aka Learning from my Students; Win-win: Designing climate change projects for effective anti-corruption in Bangladesh 

Links I Liked; Why the Inequality Virus should be the talk of Davos this week; Right now, it feels like anything can derail everything, so are theories of change still useful?;  Imagining the world anew: the pandemic and gender equality