From Poverty to Power

Links I Liked; The dangers of “policy-sising” social change; 10 steps to Becoming a Successful Academic – the definitive guide; Nothing to Learn from East Asia (on Covid)?

In which I am subjected to a gruelling 80m cross-examination on Life, the Universe and Everything (actually ‘How Change Happens’) for the entertainment of some Cambridge Accountancy students. Blogged here https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/in-conversation-on-how-change-happens-activism-and-politics/ 

Links I Liked; Africa's new Free Trade Agreement; Can Financial Diaries help us understand life in fragile and conflict-affected settings?; Oxfam's top 5 climate justice wins since 2008; Me being grilled by some Cambridge accountancy students on life, the universe and everything

Summary of a weird (and record-breaking) year on FP2P; Links I Liked; You've got your Qualification and you want to change the world. Congrats. Now what? (aka why being smart is not enough); Has Covid been a tipping point for Universal Social Protection? Here's what we know; Bigger? Smaller? And What about the Missing Middle? Great discussion on the future of Humanitarianism 

Links I Liked; How Covid can help us Repurpose Humanitarian Bureaucracies; Gender, Power and Progress: How Norms Change; Argentina introduces a Wealth Tax (aka ‘the Oxfam Tax’); How to decolonise International Development: some practical suggestions 

Clare Short: ‘Reflecting on the Demise of DFID’; Coronavirus as a Catalyst for Global Civil Society; Philanthropy: a History. Kevin Watkins reviews a big new book; Who wins/loses if Mexico legalizes Cannabis? Not as straightforward as you might think; You can't rethink humanitarianism without also rethinking the money. Here's one way to do it. 

The next phase in making sense of 'emergent agency in a time of Covid' - thematic cluster conversations on eg women's rights, education, faith organizations. The hour of the rubber ducks - the use of humour in protests in Thailand and elsewhere. Links I Liked. How has the Pandemic Affected the Ecosystem on Open Government? Climate change in Bolivia - what's changed/the same over the last 10 years?

Global Britain or Little Britain? The attack on UK aid; Links I Liked; Book Review: Power Switch: How We can Reverse Extreme Inequality; #PowerShifts Resources: The Virus of Gender-Based Violence; Is Covid a window of opportunity for localizing aid? Learning from a natural experiment in the Pacific 

Links I Liked; Social Protection in a Time of Covid; What are we seeing so far on Emergent Agency in Covid? Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights. What have we learned about the care economy from 7 years' work in 25 countries? 

Which developing countries have managed to reduce income inequality and why? Free online aid and development courses for penniless graduates; Initial Findings on Emergent Agency in a time of Covid; An Uplifting Account of Civil Society Responses to Covid; Why don’t Faith Groups and Anti-Corruption Activists Work Together More? Glass half empty or half full? Debating the underlying narrative on the US election.