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Links I Liked

November 21, 2022
Ran a little poll while we still have twitter Heads up inequality peeps. Applications now open for Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme. Fully-funded fellowship for mid-career policymakers, activists, practitioners, and researchers. Application deadline 12 January 2023. UK government announcement that aid funding is again open to Oxfam. Next question – should we take it? If Adam
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The links between war and hunger

November 17, 2022
Powerful piece in the Economist earlier this month stressing a link that is sometimes lost in the coverage of hunger crises – the link to ‘men with guns’ as they put it. Some excerpts: ‘At first glance, Vladimir Putin has little in common with an Ethiopian foot-soldier. One man has palaces and nuclear weapons, the other a shack and an
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Rebecca Solnit: Why climate despair is a luxury

November 16, 2022
Reposting (with permission) this great piece from the New Statesman – ht Irene Guijt Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we. By Rebecca Solnit When you take on hope, you take on its opposites and opponents: despair, defeatism, cynicism and pessimism. And, I would argue, optimism. What all these enemies of hope have in common
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Links I Liked

November 14, 2022
Shoe shopping in Chester (and everywhere else) ht No Context Brits It’s all about Elon Musk on twitter these days, but some more important stuff did manage to get through. Let’s start with the twitter meltdown first tho: First, people have rapidly twigged that you can set up a bogus ‘verified’ account by paying $8 a month, with astonishing results.
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Development Nutshell: round-up (23m) of FP2P posts, w/b 31st October and 7th November

November 12, 2022
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Aid v Global Public Goods; the fear in the system and multi-dimensional poverty: A conversation with Norway’s Development Agency

November 11, 2022
Spent a fascinating hour this week shooting the breeze with Nikolai Hegertun and Petter Skjæveland from Norad, the Norwegian aid agency. They’d got in touch to discuss some of the obstacles and challenges they face, look for ideas from elsewhere that might work for them etc etc – I love this kind of conversation. Some highlights: Aid v Global Public
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Words v Deeds: Rishi Sunak at the Egypt Climate Summit

November 9, 2022
Oxfam GB’s Danny Sriskandarajah  assesses words v deeds in Rishi Sunak’s performance on the climate crisis After initially dithering on whether to attend the COP27 climate summit this week, Prime Minister Sunak seems to have packed his Climate Superhero costume for his trip to Sharm-El-Sheikh. His speech was not short of promises – to turn the UK into a ‘clean energy
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Adaptive Management in large programmes: Great new Practical Guide

November 8, 2022
I’m off to Papua New Guinea in a couple of weeks in the role of ‘critical friend’ (more on that weird job description in due course) to a big Aussie-funded aid program (the A$87m Building Community Engagement in PNG Program) run by DT Global (as Cardno is now called). They’ve just published an excellent guidance note on Adaptive Management, written
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‘Imagine There’s No Money’ – a thought experiment on aid without $

November 2, 2022
Gave a ‘Sussex Development Lecture’ last week. The title (with apologies to John Lennon): ‘Imagine there‘s no Money; It‘s easy if you try‘. Here’s the powerpoint – feel free to nick the slides. Some points from what I learned both from writing the lecture and the Q&A: Firstly, on aid quantity, I have been trapped in a bit of a
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Can the UK become a development superpower again? Stefan Dercon’s memo to the new Development Minister

November 1, 2022
Great, pull-no-punches twitter thread from Stefan Dercon in response to the new UK Government’s decision to appoint Andrew Mitchell as Minister for Development (still within the merged FCDO though). Here’s an edited version, with his permission. Welcome Mr Mitchell, but you have your work cut out. All eyes will be on the budgets. They are in an absolute mess. A
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Links I Liked

October 31, 2022
The prospects for war with China: Why Chris Blattman sees a serious chance of World War III in the next decade Oxfam is expanding its paid trainee scheme. Spend 15 months working for Oxfam GB . No formal qualifications needed; just a commitment to fight for a more equal world. Apply by 9 Nov. Five international NGOs launch fresh bid
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Development Nutshell: round-up (21m) of FP2P posts, w/b 24th October

October 29, 2022
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