From Poverty to Power

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Who Decides What Constitutes ‘Knowledge’ on Climate Change?
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The World Order Seems to be in Turmoil – What’s Going on?
How more Open Government can bolster USAID’s Localization Agenda 

Top Student Blogs and Vlogs from my LSE Activism course: 

• Valerie Barki: Are you #ManEnoughToSnip?
• Jessica Louise: There’s a chicken in the desert! 
• Martin Caforio: Green to Go: The Better Way to Take Away
• Vlogs from Carlota Lopez, Debra Francis and Holly Ingram

A historic global agreement on tax is under threat. Here’s why.
Amazing new Resource Guide on Humanitarianism

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• Designing 'Research for Impact' still seems difficult for a lot of academics. Why?
• Do Southern-based Transnationals behave worse than Northern ones?
• How adaptive M&E from the peace sector can help demonstrate the value of aid (truncated due to dog issues - apologies!)

 Desperately trying to get through this week's posts before going on holiday, while also looking after my son's hyperactive spaniel. 

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How did we get here? Great chronology of citizen and corporate action on climate

In your mid/late career and want to do a PhD? Here's some good news.

The Gross Domestic Problem: what would a new economic measure that values women and climate look like?

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School children are bearing the brunt of the global hunger crisis – just feed them
How the United Nations and the World Bank can turbo charge the effort to reduce Inequality
Evaluating the Evaluations: What lessons can Oxfam draw from a Decade of Scrutiny?

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The methodology behind Oxfam’s latest killer fact on companies $1 trillion in windfall profits

Some good news on falling global poverty levels (the multi-dimensional kind)

Devoted the last week’s posts to a new book, How to Engage Policy Makers with your Research: The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy. Lot of stuff to chew on in here, for those of us uncomfortably straddling the academic/advocacy divide.

• Overall Book Review
• Particularly nice chapter on Research to influence Sustainability Policy in UK
• The Role of Critical Friend (something I do a bit of, so interesting to see it being systematized)

Fixing the power imbalances of aid and development: A paradox

Is it right to prioritise fragile states in the climate crisis?

Book Review: How to Stand Up to a Dictator, by Maria Ressa

Where has the Humanitarian Sector got to on Localization? Great new update

From Penury to Prosperity. The Churches at the Epicentre of social-economic Transformation

I'm doing a new edition of How Change Happens - any suggestions for what needs to change?

Why are LGBTQIA+ people in the Philippines still waiting for an anti-discrimination law?

Leadership Tips from Someone Who Knows

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Reforming the World Bank: some good ideas, but where's the power, politics and feasibility?
How to get people to take the Care Economy seriously? Some top (evidence-based) tips

Where thinking and working politically meets gender: tactics that have worked
Podcast + transcript: did we get it wrong on land grabs in Africa? In Conversation with Laura German
How do we Start Thinking About AI and Development? (one post by me, one by ChatGPT!)
What does politically smart support to democracy and human rights look like?
Can humanitarian experience guide the development of new loss and damage funding?

Want to know what happened to the whole issue of land governance, land grabs and women's land rights in Africa? Here's anthropology professor Laura German, author of 'Power/Knowledge/Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and its Governance in Africa'.