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Meeting people where they are at? Sure, just don’t leave them there

16 March 2022

Multiple authors

It’s a laudable aim to engage groups who have lost faith in international institutions and “meet them where they are at” as the We The Helpers campaign set out to do. But we have a duty to move towards greater understanding and global solidarity.

Satellite-linked rain gauge and weather station in a mango orchard in Burkina Faso, West Africa

#ShiftThePower Manifesto for Change: Where it started and where we are now

15 March 2022

Ese Emerhi

Partners of the #ShiftThePower Manifesto for Change from around the world explain what the Manifesto means to them, what parts have resonated most with their organisation and how they have used it to help move towards community-led development.

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss join Boris Johnson for a business leaders call

The impact of the UK aid cuts on NGOs

15 March 2022

Juliet Conway

What is the true cost of the UK aid cuts? After Chancellor Rishi Sunak cut the budget by £4.5bn last year, we investigated how our members’ programmes have been affected and documented the results of the impacts.

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