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New thinking needed for funding in a complex world
Public and private funders around the world are rethinking how best to invest their resources to tackle the world’s most intractable social issues. These so-called ‘wicked problems’ — including climate change, poverty, and pandemics — …
Partnering with trust: it’s time to reimagine country ownership and sustainability
What does ‘country ownership’ really mean? At a time when the global health and development field is grappling with how to change traditional power dynamics, ‘country ownership’ is often touted as a way forward. But …
It’s time for philanthropists to step up on climate finance
According to the latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world needs to increase green investment by three to six times current levels in order to limit global temperature rises to 1.5 …
Funding agroecology movements: A strategy for biodiversity conservation and climate and food justice
For Indigenous Buryat nomadic herders in the Russian part of Central Asia, life would be far more difficult without the Buryat cow. The disappearance of this emblematic animal would mean the violation of their rights …
A week in Brazil: Learnings from TPW’s global journey
It is a curious consequence of the pandemic that so many have turned inwards and lost a global perspective. Not just in terms of what we do, but also of what we consider relevant for …
Making the invisible seen and heard
This opinion piece is part of Propel Philanthropy’s Collaborative Media Campaign and a response to Rose Maruru’s article, Infrastructure is Invisible but Critical for Systems Change. To provide context, her organization, EPIC Africa, launched the …
When it comes to the global financial architecture, it’s time to shift the power
There’s only one thing people hate giving away more than money. Power. In fact, the power to give away money is something people with large amounts of it tend to greatly enjoy. But power is …
Breaking out of echo chambers: Expanding constituency conversations
Our consultations about the future of international development show that responsibility for deciding how money is spent should be transferred to people who receive the money rather than retained by those who give it. This …
Reforming International Development: Crowdsourcing Invitation
Read a translation of this article in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, or Ukrainian. What is this? This is an invitation to crowdsource with and beyond our community and activist networks, so we co-create a diverse …