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From a year of dialogue with humanitarian practitioners across the ecosystem, the message is clear: AI could be a genuine lever for localisation – but only if there is renewed thinking, partnership and intentional investment, Ka Man Parkinson at Save the Children argues.
Many of us are grappling with how we can make INGOs more effective. As SOS Children’s Villages UK begins its new chapter as Right to Childhood, Alison Wallace and Harpinder Collacott share how a clear set of guiding principles can help organisations make difficult decisions at pace.
Five years ago, the biggest providers of development assistance endorsed a landmark commitment to respect, support and incentivise civil society. Dylan Mathews, CEO of Peace Direct, looks back on the progress and the pitfalls.
Responding to news that the Conservatives would shrink the UK aid budget to just £1 billion a year to fund…
What is shaping public support for international cooperation? This blog highlights four insights from Bond’s latest research into how the British public feel about “aid”. Jess Crombie, senior lecturer at UAL, and Bond’s Maryam Mohsin writes.
Lydia Powell of Tearfund introduces the Light Wheel, a proven participatory toolkit that helps communities define wellbeing on their own terms, plan for holistic change and measure what matters most.
In response to the Foreign Secretary’s speech at Labour Party Conference, Romilly Greenhill, CEO of Bond, the UK network for…
The idea of “empowerment” is prominent in humanitarian and development discourse. But it is time to look more closely at what we mean by it, argues Myriam Castaneda Solares at Start Network.
Hannah Moysey at Blue State asks: How do we safeguard people without smoothing over the reality of a crisis or losing our responsibility to bear witness?
