From Poverty to Power

Links I Liked; Voices from the pandemic frontlines: Health worker protests and proposals from 84 countries; 5 Common Mistakes when NGOs start strategizing; Open Access rocks - How Change Happens is four years old this week and OA has made all the difference; Malawi is the only place where democracy has improved under Covid. 80 countries have got worse.

Links I Liked; Fragments of the Post-Covid World Order, according to The Economist; Civic Freedoms and Pandemic; Covid-19 as a watershed in how we run the world; how do influencing networks get results  

Links I Liked; Oxfam's top tips for effective campaigning; how to manage information overload; how Covid and Inequality feed off each other; observing the pandemic through a public authority lens

Interview with veteran Oxfam campaigner Richard English, whose 'Influencing for Impact Guide' has just been published. We discuss the best/worst Oxfam campaigns, the benefits and risks of professional activism and have a couple of very polite disagreements about what the Guide does/doesn't cover. Stay for his great 'big takeaway' for activists

Water, sanitation and Hygiene as part of the Covid reconstruction; applying political economy analysis to health and education programmes; taking doughnut economics from idea to action; rules of thumb as an alternative to theories of change; a great line up for the LSE's new open access lecture series

Links I Liked; 3 examples of 'emergent agency' in grassroots responses to Covid; new course manual on advocacy and activism

How to reduce carbon emissions = 100 coal power stations with a simple nudge on air conditioners; Why are Illegal Drugs still a Cinderella Issue in Development?; How to vlog – top examples and advice from some very tech savvy students; The Hidden Life of Theories of Change; How to Monitor and Evaluate an Adaptive Programme: 7 Takeaways  

Why you should care about Sea Turtles; Links I Liked; Launching a new Research and Action programme on 'Emergent Agency in a Time of Covid'. Want to join us?;  What do 13,000 children in 46 countries have to tell us about living with COVID-19?; In advocacy, which matters more - evidence or relationships?

How social audits can improve the Covid response - learning from India; 3 advocacy case studies on norm change that I wish someone would write; decolonizing the knowledge system in the pandemic; links I liked; what have 5 years of tax campaigns achieved?; what is political economy analysis and why does it matter?; a great campaign on foul air in London's tube (from one of my students); book review on Thinking and Working Politically