Decolonizing Development: Opportunities and Alternative Post-2015 I’ll be speaking at University of Toronto Scarborough Saturday, February 7th and Sunday, February 8th. The 4th year of the conference will be dedicated to challenging “current concepts about development.”…
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Guest post: 2015 should be the year of real action on extreme poverty and climate change | beyondbrics
January 15, 2015 Appearances International DevelopmentMy second op-ed of 2015 is a fuller rundown of my thoughts on post-2015 development agenda. Sadly, Financial Times’ BeyondBRICS blog has it hidden behind a registration wall. If you are patient enough to register (you…
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Five ways people power can shape the sustainable development goals | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian
January 15, 2015 UncategorizedMy latest op-ed for the Guardian. On a few ideas the international development complex can utilize to reach voices at the end of the development mile. This was published as part of the Action/2015 push aimed…
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Africa Responds Tweetchat: Local Heroes: A focus on the local health workers in the ebola response
December 10, 2014 Diaspora at workFor a while now, we’ve been talking about raising support for the local organizations that have been at the forefront of the ebola response in the 4 most affect countries in West Africa. In previous tweet…
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On Western Union’s epic CSR response #FAIL to Ebola in West Africa
November 13, 2014 International DevelopmentOn October 18th, Western Union’s foundation arm announced a plan to mobilize support for the ebola response in West Africa: The Western Union Foundation is making a grant of US$25,000 to the International Medical Corps to support the organization’s…
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Tweetchat Wednesday: Ebola, Media, Technology and the challenge of getting it right
November 4, 2014 Diaspora at work International Development newsFor almost 3 weeks now, Africa Responds – an initiative we started to promote and support Africa’s efforts in the ebola crisis – has been holding a weekly Twitter discussion on wide-ranging topics around the ebola…
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On launching Africa Responds – a collective effort to stop ebola in West Africa
November 3, 2014 Diaspora at work Health International Development news ProjectsAbout a month ago, my colleague Solome Lemma and I started looking at the international response campaigns to ebola in West Africa and got to wondering why all the attention was on international governments and NGOs.…
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IDEX, Africans in the Diaspora Announce New Partnership
September 18, 2014 Diaspora at work International Development newsCongrats to Solome Lemma and Africans in the Diaspora: “AiD was formed with the belief Africans abroad and on the continent have an important role to play in development in Africa” said Solome Lemma, AiD’s founder…
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There is, of course, an uncomfortable neo-colonialism to this mission, one reinforced by countless pictures of the white pastor greeting a room full of black Africans. Yet according to some observers, the obvious racial overtones may…
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Scott Gilmore’s piece on the ebola crisis: But, as grim as the death count sounds, it fades when compared to the 564,000 Africans who died from malaria last year. And this carnage is mostly confined to…
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