From Poverty to Power

FP2P Highlights of 2021; Links I Liked; Feminist Protests and Politics in a World in Crisis; Why understanding the history of Donor Governments changes the way we think about aid 

Links I Liked; Engaging with evidence and uncertainty: choosing where to start; World Inequality Report 2022: a treasure trove of trends and new data; 9 Great lectures/panels for you to catch up on over Christmas (or any other time) 

Links I Liked; INGO Research for Impact: a Conversation with Save the Children; Queer existence is resistance: Understanding the rising tide of COVID-related LGBTQIA+ discrimination as gender-based violence; Research for Impact: A Conversation (and podcast) with Researchers in the Himalayas 

Audio recording of a discussion with the team at ICIMOD, a thinktank working to protect people, environment and culture across 8 countries in the Himalayan region   

Links I Liked

Can the COVID victims of child marriage get accountability?

When Two Pandemics Collide. How the HIV community has shown resilience, innovation and agency in the time of COVID-19

How Getting Organized has helped Mitigate the Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities

The climate movement we need right now; Getting into the Politics of why (some) Governance Programmes work; Links I Liked; Making Change: What Works? Lessons from four successful movements; The Changing Face of Aid; How do you Measure the Impact of Influencing (and ask some v useful questions en route)?; 30 years and counting: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in our COVID-19 world 

Links I Liked; Traditional approaches to aid and development are failing us. It’s time to invest in community-driven change; Twenty years of UK governance programmes in Nigeria: achievements, challenges, lessons and implications for future support; What’s stopping aid from putting local people and organizations first? Answers from a global conversation

Links I Liked

Want a secret sauce to increase the readership for your next book by a factor of at least 10? Here it is. (feeble attempt at clickbait for Open Access week)

Do you want to get serious about the Care Economy? Amber Parkes, Anam Parvez Butt, Marion Sharples and Vivian Schwarz-Blum talks us through an important new advocacy tool from Oxfam and others – the Care Policy Scorecard

A Unique Fly-on-the-Wall Account of What’s Happening on the Ground in Myanmar. Great work on governance diaries has continued through Covid and the Coup.

Case Studies of sophisticated humanitarian influencing, based on a comprehensive context and power analysis – do they exist? If so, where are they?!

Links I Liked; ‘Inspiring Radically Better Futures’, a new Oxfam research programme - concept, methodology and findings.

Links I Liked; Women, Voice and Power; How to design research to make sure that Humanitarian Innovation gets scaled up?; Four glimmers of hope for tackling the climate crisis