by WACSI Feb 2024
Author Archives: Level the Playing Field in Development
It takes all of us: Shifting power and decolonizing development
Feb 2024
Anti Racism Map
by ENAR EU
What Do We Do Now? From the crisis of EDI towards true anti-oppression.
by Khadijah Anabah
Decoloniality and its fissures: Whose decolonial turn
by James Ogude 2023
No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality
Jordan Flaherty 2017
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good
William Easterly 2007
Language is important: Why we are moving away from the terms ‘allyship’ and ‘privilege’ in our work
By Dr Muna Abdi
The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
Unpacking youth narratives about pan-Africanism and continental integrationA summary of a nine-country survey
by Rebecca Pointer, Natasha Kimani and Moky Makura (Africa No Filter)
Dismantling Structural Racism in Organisational Systems
by Rebecca Freeth, Akanimo Akpan, Mahmood SondayReos Partners, Africa office
Launch Shift the Power Research – Navigating power inequalities between Northern and Southern NGOs
by Partos 2024
Where do we go from here? Navigating inequalities between development NGOs in the aid system
by Partos 2024
Reclaiming the lost power of alternatives, diversity, and solidarity
by Elizaphan Ogechi, Nguzo Africa Community Foundation
The Business Case for DEI Reinforces Anti-Black Sentiment
by Amira Barger 2023
Donor Transformation – Challenge Strengthen your support for grassroots changemakers
by CIVICUS
Research for Advocacy & Systemic Change A Ridiculously Simplified Guide to Intersectional & Decolonial Research + examples
by mara tissera luna 2024
(divorcing)WHITE SUPREMACY CULTUREComing Home to Who We Really Are
by Tema Okun
Misconceptions about Africa
by Maya Fotuhi | TEDxUPV 2024
Challenging global power asymmetries: Insights from feminist organising for decolonisation initiatives
by Alba Murcia, Kate Bird, Piyumi Samaraweera 2023
Decolonisation is not a Metaphor! — Scholar Live (BSL)
by Uncharitable by JMB Consulting (previously #bameonline) 2023
The INGO Path: Can INGOs be better at ‘shifting the power?’
by Deborah Doane, Partner, Rights CoLab https://globalfundcommunityfoundations.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/INGOs_ShiftThePower_Framing_Doane.pdf
A Celebration of Black Leaders in International Development
by RESULTS UK – Speakers: Carine Bambara – Senior Manager Global External Affairs, Brooke Lorriann Robinson – Founder & Director, The Advocacy Team Zainab Asunramu – Activist, writer, former parliamentary researcher, and an advocate for human rights. Chair: Farrah Nazir 2021
A step-by-step guide: How to institutionalise white supremacy in your non-profit
by Dhaksh 2023
There’s only one thing people hate giving away more than money. Power.
by By Jonathan Glennie & Hassan Damluji (Global Nation) 2023
Impact is not equal, but it is equitable
by Hafsah Muheed (Published on Bond) 2023
Ten tips for putting intersectionality into practice
by the opportunity agenda
Ways to be in action against anti-Black racism
by Healing Solidarity Collective 2020
Time to dismantle racism in international development
by Lena Bheeroo 2020
Ten efforts to decolonise aid
by Heba Aly 2022
Racism in the aid sector and the way forward
(The New Humanitarian) 2020
Bridging social divides: how can decolonising knowledge help?
by Peter Taylor Director of Research, Crystal Tremblay Crystal Tremblay University of Victoria 2021
What is decolonisation and why does it matter?
by Eric Ritskes 2012
Humanitarian aid system is a continuation of the colonial project
by Janaka Jayawickrama 2018
The racist double standards of international development
by Jason Hickel 2020
Does development have a problem with racism?
by Maria Faciolince 2020
The aid sector must do more to tackle its white supremacy problem
by Anonymous (The Guardian) 2020
Volunteering Abroad Forced Me to Face My Own Privilege
by Sarah Healy
Colonialism, Racism and Representation
by Robert Stam, Louise Spence Screen 1983
‘Poor children on Tinder’ and their Barbie Saviours: towards a feminist political economy of volunteer tourism
by Stephen Wearing, Mary Mostafanezhad, Nha Nguyen, Truc Ha Thanh Nguyen & Matthew McDonald 2018
African expatriates and race in the anthropology of humanitarianism
by Adia Benton 2016
Risky Business: Race, Nonequivalence and the Humanitarian Politics of Life
by Adia Benton 2016
De-constructing the ‘White Saviour Syndrome’: A Manifestation of Neo-Imperialism
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Whiteness in transit: the racialized geographies of international volunteering // Blancura en tránsito: las geografías racializadas del voluntariado internacional
by Jacob Henry 2022
Critiquing ‘race’ and racism in development discourse and practice
by Uma Kothari 2006
Diversity ‘a big challenge’ for charity volunteering, finds NCVO report
by Hugh Radojev 2017
Racism in aid sector is a hangover of colonialism, says scathing report by MPs
by Sarah Johnson 2022
Confronting the white elephant:International volunteeringand racial (dis)advantage
by Benjamin J. Lough School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA and Centre for Social Development in Africa Faculty of Humanities University of Johannesburg, South Africa Janet Carter-Black School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois, USA 2015
Decolonising the ‘autonomy of affect’ in volunteer tourism encounters
‘The white woman’s burden’ – the racialized, gendered politics of volunteer tourism