Hi Everyone, This is the new home for FP2P, as explained yesterday. We’ll set up temporary redirects from our old location. However, these will only last for 3-6 months to save Oxfam money. So please update your bookmarks and any cross-links. And now I won’t mention anything techie again, honest – thanks for staying with the process If you are

Guest post by Enrique Mendizabal Change is not linear. Policy change is not the end of the story.  The relationship between evidence and policy is not linear. Politics matters. Research matters very little. Individuals and individual organisations can do very little. At On Think Tanks, we’ve been making these points for over a decade. Events in Peru can now help

Heads up: Comments will be closed on the blog this week, as part of sorting out the internal plumbing. Sorry about that. Back up next week Too hot to read last week, so here are some graphics Yes, it was indeed very hot (ht Peter Anthony for the Caravaggio) Here’s NASA’s climate spiral to prove it In the 30 countries

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I’m a huge fan of Branko Milanovic’s writing. In both books and blog he is consistently original, erudite and thought-provoking. A genuine old-school European intellectual. Here’s the latest post on his Global Inequality blog. That today’s world situation is the worst since the end of the Second World War is not an excessive, nor original, statement. As we teeter on

When discussing a bunch of Good Things in the aid sector – decolonization, adaptive management, thinking and working politically etc, a common complaint is that the procedures of the aid bureaucracy frustrate a lot of good intentions. On decolonization, the main culprit is seen as ‘compliance’ – a set of procedures to ensure that those receiving the money do not

‘Oxfam mourns the death of our colleague & friend Jeremy Hobbs. He worked with us for over 2 decades and was Oxfam International’s first Executive Director. We remember him for his warmth, integrity and unwavering commitment to tackling inequality & injustice. Our thoughts are with his family.’ RIP Jeremy, a truly lovely, wise, wry and commited bloke, who (among many

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Headed off recently to discuss the state of Thinking and Working Politically within the aid sector. This is a loose network of aid wonks that came together to try and move aid from a pure focus on technical issues, towards taking account of power and politics and why they can facilitate/frustrate attempts to make change happen in any given context.

Guest post from Oxfam’s Anthony Kamande and Dailes Judge, ahead of this week’s African Union meeting It’s been more than two months since it rained in Nakuru County, Kenya, and Jane’s bean crop is long gone. Her only hope on her small plot of 0.8 hectares is the maize crop – but it will also be gone if it doesn’t

Alex Evans summarizes a new report with five questions for change-makers How big is our idea of ‘us’? Are our family and friends part of ‘us’? Of course. Our immediate communities? Sure. But what about beyond that? When we meet a homeless person, are they part of ‘us’? Or do we consign them to being Other, part of a ‘them’?

Aid organizations, including Oxfam, where I work part time, have been trying to draw attention to the looming hunger crisis across much of Sub-Saharan Africa. But some have been criticised for portraying the causes as mainly about drought, when in fact, war and conflict in countries such as Somalia and Ethiopia have been crucial factors. So I’m reposting this excellent