From Poverty to Power

Taxation of the World’s Super-Rich has collapsed: as 1 in 8 people go to bed hungry, that has to change 
Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies: the politics of saving the planet
Whether in Asia, Africa or North America, it’s been a profitable polycrisis for billionaires
What can Oxfam's new Davos Report teach us about Killer Graphics?

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Humanitarians Must Reject the Taliban's Misogyny 
How well does the IMF engage with civil society? 
What do LSE Activism Students do after they leave?

Edible Economics: A Christmas Cracker of a book
It’s Christmas time. Let’s talk about the world’s worst ever Christmas song (and the transatlantic cousin that is so much better).
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Hello 2023. Here are the Most-Read FP2P Blogs from the Last Year.
Is Extinction Rebellion really quitting? Analysis of their New Year's Day statement
Book Review: Africa 2.0: Inside a Continent's Communications Revolution

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Talking to Tory backbenchers about Aid

Austerity as Gender-Based Violence

Development Nutshell: audio round-up (22m) of FP2P posts, w/b 14th and 21st November

Loss and Damage fund established at COP27: what happens next?

Africa’s newest oil pipeline. When Two Elephants fight, the people get trampled

How can Behavioral Science help build Democracy, Human Rights, and Good Governance?

The Clean Energy Transition needs to be Fast – but it must also be Fair

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Rebecca Solnit: Why climate despair is a luxury
The links between war and hunger
Talking to Tory backbenchers about Aid
Austerity as Gender-Based Violence

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Can the UK become a development superpower again? Stefan Dercon’s memo to the new Development Minister 
'Imagine There's No Money' - a thought experiment on aid without $ 
Adaptive Management in large programmes: Great new Practical Guide 
Words v Deeds: Rishi Sunak at the Egypt Climate Summit 
Aid v Global Public Goods; the fear in the system and multi-dimensional poverty: A conversation with Norway’s Development Agency 

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Top Tips and Dilemmas in Influencing from seven senior Aid Leaders
Book Review: Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era
‘Voluntourism’: Cultural exchange or doing development badly?

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‘Think Chess not Checkers’: Wilf Mwamba on the role of Analysis in effective Influencing

As Oxfam turns 80, here are three big ideas that I think will shape its future…

SoupGate, the radical flank and the politics of good taste 

For our Global Executive Leadership Initiative training on influencing, I interviewed Wilf Mwamba, a long term FCDO/DFID practitioner-thinker on TWP, now working in the private sector. With GELI's permission, I'm reposting here.

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Which Governments do/don’t care about Inequality?
‘Never let the Silence Reign’: in Conversation with William Chemaly on the future of Global Protection
What should INGOs do when Civic Space is closing around them?