I’m leaving Oxfam – here’s what happens next

Wow, the end of an Era. I really enjoyed FP2P, it gave me wonderfull insights for my work. And of course, your pleasant way of writing, blogging. Thanks for that.

Thanks for all you’ve done, Duncan. We haven’t met, but I did hear you speak at ANU several times which is how I discovered the blog. I always found your perspective so refreshing compared to the academic and bureaucratic mindsets which dominate the development debate. I also admire the way you manage to span the chasm between policy and practice which inhibits clear thinking on either side. Good luck with the consulting. I used to work for a development consulting firm and I would hire you on the spot.

Hi Duncan! End of an era indeed, and your next adventures sound like great ones. As for a resemblance between you and Vinnie Jones? Sort of?

Thank you for all your challenge, insights, musings, sanity and lightness when needed. Have fun x

This is a milestone – thank you for maintaining FP2P for so long and at such a continuously high standard – argumentative, informative, and often simply fun. A great contribution to helping figure out promising pathways forward.

Enjoy the consulting gigs, the LSE, and the kidnapping (There is that moment of sleep deprivation coming when the parents may be only too willing to hand her over)!

On our good days, we do what we can. You have had so many good days, and our world is much the better for it! Thank you, Duncan. I look forward to all your good days ahead!

Thanks so much Duncan- for creating a robust landscape for consistent and challenging platform on many and burning issues of our times.

I have constantly engaged with the many issues through this.

The collected information over the two decades is a treasure trove indeed.I have dipped into it many times and gained massively.

Hope -Oxfam will keep it alive.
Your next pathway also looks very exciting -leadership!
Heart felt gratitutude for every thing you achieved and made it useful for many.

Hello Duncan. It was fun and re-forming to have been in with you as FP2P (I still have my copy close at hand) emerged at Oxfam but while this is indeed the end of an era it is also a start of things new. Please keep in touch with the TWP and TPP groups which is where I am enjoying myself now. Thank you for producing such a consistently lively blog

Ah the end of an era but so much for you to look forward to Duncan. Thanks for the great reads, new insights delivered with laughs and reasons to stop what I should be working on for a few minutes. Please keep up the writing!

I dreaded this day. Well done and thanks. “Read Duncan” has been a major tagline in conversations with colleagues at ECDPM and beyond. As I am retired – and with your first grand-child in mind – I gladly invite you to my Gramsci Babysit Brigade’s course on How to Pamper the Future Leadership. Best of luck.

Duncan, this post or a similar type of thing, should continue! Do not leave us!
Your tireless energy to produce thoughtful and meaningful content should have reasons to remain active. It’s okay that your LSE students will enjoy your lessons, but what about us?

Find a way to continue and we will follow.
All the very best and my sincerest gratitude for your invaluable contribution to our development practice.

Thanks for all the thoughts, insights, words and above all the questions that have helped me, and clearly thousands of us, navigate these complex spaces and debates. Pleased we had the chance to meet via GELI and hope we’ll find other ways to collaborate in the future.

The end of an era! I will miss the thought-provoking email messages I would get from my subscription (and all the bonus memes)! Hope you keep blogging while still enjoying teaching and being an awesome grandpa! You rock!

Patricia

Many thanks, Duncan. As with everyone else here, the FP2P was always a go-to blog first thing in the morning and I shall miss it. Not just for the thought-provoking content but the writing style – engaging, accessible, warm, funny.

BTW, I sent an email to your LSE account a few weeks ago but it may have been intercepted by the spam filters. I’ll re-send shortly.

Very best for the exciting new chapters

The blog has been inspirational to me, and your work on campaigns and advocacy. We will truly miss your voice in this site. But having a grand child is also a good way of making change happen. All the best in your next move.

Greetings,
Your FP2P insights are by me valued.
My express hope is for you to at least continue advancing development insights.
Your learned earned seasoned judgement in matters post conflict is important ensuring a conversation grounded in evidence fact instead of only pure emotion–not that emotion matters not, however, reason in earned learned judgement objective is crucial when addressing an issue combustive.
My best wishes,
Monte McMurchy

I am sure we will continue to see your provocations and perspectives, perhaps in different fora but equally engaging and thought provoking. Good luck with the next stage (and after 13 years of grandparenting it is still wonderful and keeps me young).

As others have said – truly the end of an era. Very glad to hear you plan to remain involved in FP2P despite moving on from Oxfam, Duncan.
What a great contribution you have made to so many people’s knowledge and thinking. Enjoy grandparenthood!

*sigh*
It seems odd to say to a journalist and a blogger that there are no adequate words, but it is true. Nothing remains to be said except “best wishes”.
*sigh*

Well done Duncan – there will be new pastures for sure. But, you can be sure that you have created something important in FP2P and your blogging – certainly to those who have enjoyed it – but, also to the countless others to whom it has been recommended and who have benefitted : a massive ripple effect not captured in your “bare” stats. It’s been an inspiration to me and many others in this sector, so thank you. I will miss your podcast with the slurping of coffee, the shuffling of papers, and the wry humour. Exit stage left, enter stage right !

Dear Duncan, I have always taken pride in Oxfam as the “thinking person’s NGO” and you more than anyone has embody that value. You will be missed by all of us who wake up around the world looking for your daily posting. I hope Oxfam will be smart enough to find another voice and mind as thoughtful and witty as yours and that you will continue to keep us all thinking critically about development from your perch at LSE.

It’s been a great run. Congratulations and thanks,

Ray

Long before thought leadership became “the thing” you were it. Thank you for the incessant provocations, irritating “but what about that” and the call to us all, to be less self referential and righteous as “we save the world around us :)”. Thanks also for the encouragement and doors you opened for me and others. In the long arc of history, the impact will be found in those you nurtured alongside the stream of consciousness in your writings.

Now go talk to the anti-rights movement, regularly… ❤

Just saw this. Always marvelled at the fact that you could blog on a daily basis and loved the irony, the provocations, the insights into the thinking of an ‘international’ community struggling to decolonise. Much as I will miss you on this platform, maybe it is an opportunity to hand theFP2P baton to the global south…..and congratulations on the prospect of grandparenting ..have seen it send the strongest professionals weak at the knees.. a more compelling reason to change the world does not exist…thank youand good luck

Todo lo mejor para ti Duncan, no te olvides de Latinoamérica!

Será siempre un gusto tenerte por acá y pensar en nuevas formas de erradicar la pobreza.

Abrazos!!

Dear Duncan,

It has always been a pleasure to read FP2P over the years. A source of inspiration, of reflection and always thought-provoking. Congratulations for blogging so consistently and with such high standards over the years.

About time too! Loads of others things to do in the world, and we only have limited time, so I would advise get out there and get on with some of them. It was great to work together at Oxfam.