Full video: Two global development experts critically examine the movement toward decolonizing aid
Degan Ali and Cynthia Eyakuze say the sector needs to shift power to local communities, but that there’s been far too much lip service when it comes to ‘localization’
Why It Matters
Signatories of the Grand Bargain agreement did not meet the goal of shifting 20 percent of their funding to local organizations by 2020. What now? Meanwhile, global development and humanitarian aid are facing wicked problems: rising rates of extreme poverty due to the pandemic, climate change-induced droughts, famines, and migration — and much more. It is time to reexamine the ways the sector responds to these crises.
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