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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 — …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …