Decolonising Aid: Open databases

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1	Decolonising Aid: A reading list
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4	A necessary operating model for equity in global development	https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/opinion-a-necessary-operating-model-for-equity-in-global-development-103400	Article	Equitable development will only happen when organizations are able to exercise autonomy over their operating models
5	Breaking the Starvation Cycle	https://humentum.org/policy/administration-costs-research-project/	Report	How international funders can stop trapping their grantees in the starvation cycle and start building their resilience	Through the Administration Costs Research Project, Humentum gathered evidence on the extent to which international donor funding covers the real administration costs of national NGOs. The Funders for Real Cost, Real Change (FRC), a collaborative of private foundations, commissioned this research and sought recommendations on how funders could provide adequate cost coverage and strengthen their grantees’ financial health and resilience.
6	How NGO CEOs are looking change in the eye, right now	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sf93oAU69E	Video	How CEO's of INGOs are thinking about translating aspirations for transformation into operational level, practical change	Christine Sow, Humentum CEO, shares her generalized observations after having hosted a year's worth of Humentum CEO peer sharing conversations.
7	Rebalancing Risk and Accountability	https://humentum.org/blog-media/rebalancing-risk-and-accountability/	Article	How organizations can reimagine risk and accountability practices to shift power and operationalize locally-led development	This includes a webinar recording and an interview with panelist Dr. Riva Kantowitz, Founder of Radical Flexibility Fund.
8	Loss and damage does not happen in a vacuum – it relates to power and politics	https://www.iied.org/loss-damage-does-not-happen-vacuum-it-relates-power-politics	Article	"Colonial thinking also dominates the international climate policy arena and shapes so-called ‘international development’."	A must read for those working on climate change, with links to loads of persuasive evidence
9	Achieving a more equitable and impactful humanitarian sector: Platform paper	https://humanitarianadvisorygroup.org/insight/achieving-a-more-equitable-and-impactful-humanitarian-sector-platform-paper/	Report	This paper is about the data and evidence that we – a team of researchers and practitioners from organisations in Asia and the Pacific – believe is needed to support a more equitable and impactful humanitarian sector. Our vision is for a sector that recognises the value of different perspectives, respects the contributions of different people, and understands how ethical choices reflect and affect the communities it serves. Our belief is that research that holds our everyday practices to the spotlight and shares evidence that can empower and encourage improved practices will help the sector advance towards that vision. This paper maps out how we intend to tackle the challenging space of power, people and local leadership in our sector. It provides a research platform to ask and uncover answers over the next three years.	This paper was developed in partnership with Humanitarian Advisory Group (Australia), GLOW Consulting (Pakistan), inSights (Bangladesh), the Pujiono Centre (Indonesia), CoLAB (Fiji), and the Pacific Island Association of NGOs (PIANGO, a regional organisation linked with national organisations). The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade funds the program, and is a partner invested in exploring how the findings from this research can better inform them and other international actors to make practical progress on the aid reform agenda, particularly on localisation.
10	Re-imagining Aid: Ending Structural Racism in the Modern-Day Aid System	https://anchor.fm/aid-talks	Podcast	Originally a webinar, the podcast features speakers who talked about their different contexts and address the barriers which stop or serve to act as disincentives for a more equal, anti-racist aid and development program and open the conversation on ways forward as part of building a reimagined aid sector.	Aid Talks” is a webinar series discussing the most pressing issues on aid and development cooperation today and the critical issues surrounding it. Co-hosted by Aid/Watch Australia and the Reality of Aid – Asia Pacific (RoA-AP), “Aid Talks” aims to inform the public on how the Official Development Assistance (ODA), commonly known as aid, provided by donor countries to developing nations and fragile states, is being utilized as ‘aid investment’ redirected to support private sector players and narrow security priorities over reducing inequality and poverty.
11	Localizing the Triple Nexus - Policy Research on Humanitarian, Development, and Peace Nexus in Nine Contexts	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p9puC1xYcv1o74Dz_u2ZlSTJ3zCy9YDA/view	Book	With the increasing demand for humanitarian assistance worldwide caused by protracted crises and varying states of conflict and fragility, the research explores the relevance of the Triple Nexus in addressing the root causes of the conflicts, or the conditions that create the need for humanitarian assistance. It evaluates the limitations and potentials for development effectiveness of the nexus approach in a context-specific manner in nine countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
12	Shifting Power or Leveraging Power	https://www.academia.edu/109684511/Shifting_Power_or_Leveraging_Power	Paper
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