Next up in our summer student post series is Andreas Brox. Here’s his full project, on which this blog is based. It has been two years since this fricking pandemic has started and like everyone else, I am pretty sick of hearing about it. Thankfully, it feels very much like it is over in Germany, where I am from, or

Next up is in our series of summer students spots is Rebecca Milon. Her full campaign proposal is here.

Next up on this series of posts from my indomitable LSE students, Ximena Altamirano. Here’s the full campaign strategy on which this post was based. The world is going through a climate crisis; temperatures are rising, icecaps melting and forests depleting – that is not exactly news. While we are all doing our part in protecting the planet, Latin American

Next up in our summer season of top blogs from my LSE students, here’s Maitland Murray, who among other things, is exploring the use of humour in activism for his dissertation. Here’s the full project on which this blog is based. Tired of being called an armchair activist but very cozy in your warm leather embrace? Spend a lot of

Next up in our summer season of posts by my LSE activism students is Sneha Mojumdar, who went with the option of producing a vlog, rather than writing a blogpost – see what you think. The full project on which her vlog is based is here.

While my wonderful LSE activism students are pulling their hair out over their dissertations, I thought I’d post a few of their excellent blogs and vlogs, describing their strategy for a campaign they would love to run. First up Yossma Sohail. Full strategy here. Karachi is so dirty. Heaps of rubbish. A city incapable of tolerating a rain shower because

Guest post by Eyokia Donna Juliet  At the recent AU Humanitarian Summit, finding African solutions to African problems was an important theme. What will it take to walk the talk? In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia now, it’s likely that a person is dying of hunger every 48 seconds. How many years of neglect, denial, and short-sighted decisions by policy makers

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

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

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