From Poverty to Power

The outgoing coordinator of the Global Protection Cluster shares some of his impressions of the state of a crucial part of the humanitarian system, the gains made, the challenges that remain, and why it all matters.

Links I Liked
What did we learn from six months of training senior Aid people in Influencing?
Why and how the UN and NGOs need to work together at national level 
Ha-Joon Chang on Economics v Science Fiction and other great ways to end your weeks this autumn – the LSE’s Cutting Edge lectures are back 

Links I Liked 

Book Review: ‘New Mediums, Better Messages?’ (How Innovations in theatre, music, photography, video games, radio & journalism are Changing International Development)

Podcast: Drought, Localization, the power of Cash Transfers and the Criminalization of Beekeeping – a conversation with Oxfam Kenya’s John Kitui

Which is worse, bad Zoom or bad In-Real-Life?

I sat down recently with one of the stars of the Oxfam firmament, John Kitui, its Country Director in Kenya 

Links I Liked
The Humanitarian System is on the Edge of the Abyss. Where next?
Locked out. What do local leaders say about reforming the humanitarian system?
5 ways to build more inclusive cities
Is it time to Embrace your Imposter Syndrome?

Student blogs/vlogs

• Tackling period poverty in France
• Plane to Train UK: Incentivizing and Promoting Domestic Train Travel 
• Why you have to care about elephants in Botswana

Book Review: Gambling on Development, by Stefan Dercon 

Goodbye Government, Hello Corruption

Using Evidence: What Can We Learn from a Book about Parenting?

Links I Liked
The sewage nightmare of Delhi’s ‘unauthorised colonies’
5 easy steps to gain moral superiority over your friends
Protecting the protectors
Arrest the Trafficker, Not the Trafficked
Why you should change your mind about the start-up that invented the Covid vaccine

Links I Liked: All graphics (too hot to think!)
Playing the long game: politics, elite bargaining, and change over 20 years in Peru
Welcome to our new home
Never Heard of 'Human Rights Economics'? You have now.
Summer Student blog and campaign. What about Waste Workers?

Links I Liked
Red Tape, Risk and Decolonization: how can the Aid Sector square the circle?
Hopelessness?

Links I Liked
Starving civilians is an ancient military tactic, but today it’s a war crime in Ukraine, Yemen, Tigray and elsewhere
Why we need to build a larger us
Africa is so rich in farmland – so why is it still hungry?
Where have we got to on Thinking and Working Politically? Update and a Mildly Heretical Thought.