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5 ways adaptive management makes small NGOs more effective
…ideas are researched or tried on a small scale first, to gain evidence (through feedback and research) on how this new way could work. Testing and tracking assumptions we are…
Jude Fransman
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The new UK government must step up in the fight to protect front line defenders
…approach. None of them – including the latest iteration, a Strategy on Open Societies and Human Rights, promised in the International Development White Paper – ever saw the light of…
G7 2021 and civil society
…environment, sustainable economic recovery, open societies and civic space, education, food security and nutrition, and conflict and atrocity prevention. Download the report in English or French. C7 Summit and communiqué…
A force for good: principles and hallmarks for the new FCDO
The UK government’s decision to merge the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) comes at a time of major global change – an unprecedented…
5 ideas for effective gender approaches within consortia
…and how understandings and ambitions translate into programmes. Some consortia experience a more organic development of gender-oriented practices. But others comment that there is only a “bare minimum” of practices…
Partnerships
We are committed to promoting effective partnerships in the international development sector to ensure they add value, harness existing resources, and support more holistic and complex interventions to global and…
The response to the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria: what do we know so far?
…of Northwest Syria is already internally displaced and the earthquake comes against a backdrop of the continued civil war, freezing weather conditions, and the region’s first cholera outbreak in a…
Search for Common Ground Rapid Response Fund