Futures and innovation
Re-imagining the future of the INGO
Mary Ann Clements, co-lead of ADD, reflects on the changes the organisation has made so that funding can flow more freely and directly to disability justice movements in other countries.
The Global Partnerships Conference: what happened and what did we learn?
Our CEO, Romilly Greenhill, shares six key takeaways from a conference seen as an important opportunity to review key aspects of the future of development cooperation. Did we see any real progress?
Making challenge funds work: six lessons from supporting agribusiness innovation in Africa
Dillon Kasson from Self Help Africa examines the promise and complexity of challenge funds as a development tool. How can these funds create new opportunities for smallholder farmers?
Global Partnerships Conference: what does the sector want to see?
From sustainable finance to health and climate, Bond, our members and partner networks share their hopes for the upcoming conference.
What 40 years of experience in international infrastructure development has taught me
After 40 years working in international infrastructure development, Mark Harvey reveals that the real key to successful projects isn’t just about engineering. It’s about understanding people, systems, and disciplines, as well as learning by doing – all captured in a new toolkit.
How time travelling could provide ideas, answers and motivation to finally embrace transformation
Aleema Shivji and Matt Jackson from Impact Works make the case for a new kind of futures thinking.
Global Partnerships Conference: how it can achieve genuine and meaningful engagement and be locally led
This is a Bond briefing on what meaningful engagement with civil society looks like and how the FCDO can achieve genuine and meaningful engagement with civil society on the upcoming Global Partnerships Conference in May 2026.