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This is a conversation podcast by Duncan Green, strategic adviser for Oxfam GB, author of ‘How Change Happens’ and Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics. This personal reflection is not intended as a comprehensive statement of the agreed policies of either Oxfam or the LSE. https:/...
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The last Development Nutshell! 26 minutes of reflection on my 20 years at Oxfam, which are coming to an end next week.
Yep, this is it. Walking the plank as of next Tuesday, so here are some parting reflections I've been putting up on the blog over the last few days, a...
Development Nutshell, (30m). Audio roundup of February blogs on From Poverty to Power
GELI Stories:
- Building Coalitions between UN Agencies and Government Ministries in Eswatini
- Working in closed and i...
Development Nutshell, bumper edition (28m). Audio roundup of January/February blogs on From Poverty to Power
How Blogs can Change Government Policy
Six big humanitarian policy trends for 2024
What are the Grounds for Hope in a World of Wrecks?
Claire Melamed on Data, Power and Sustainable Development
I sat down a few months ago to discuss data and development with Clare Melamed, who runs the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. Tran...
Development Nutshell, (19m). Audio roundup of last few posts on From Poverty to Power, November and December
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UN Women makes Norm Change central to its mission
What's it like Explaining NGOs to Senior Military types from 40 Countries?...
Development Nutshell, (20m). Audio roundup of blogs on From Poverty to Power, w/b 13th and 20th November
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Voices of Gaza
What do 70 Masters students from around the world want to campaign on?
What to read on the new UK White...
Development Nutshell, bumper edition (30m). Audio roundup of October/November blogs so far on From Poverty to Power
Why did the Street Movements of the 2010s fail?
What Tactics are most Effective in Non-Violent Protest?
Think tanks are struggling. They n...
Development Nutshell (22m). Audio roundup of From Poverty to Power posts wb 9th and 16th October
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Which book should I review next? You decide please!
How do we talk about Older People in Development and Activism?
Be...
Development Nutshell podcast . 27m roundup of posts for w/b 25th September and 2nd October
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Finishing a 2nd Edition of How Change Happens - here are drafts of two new chapters for you to read.
5 Things we Learned fr...
Development Nutshell podcast. 22m roundup of posts for w/b 11th and 18th September
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Book Review: Power and Progress. Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Development Nutshell podcast. 24m roundup of posts for w/b 28th August and 4th September
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Who Decides What Constitutes ‘Knowledge’ on Climate Change?
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The World Order Seems to be in Turmoil –...
Development Nutshell (22m). Audio roundup of blogs for w/b 14th and 21st August on From Poverty to Power
Top Student Blogs and Vlogs from my LSE Activism course:
A historic global agreement on tax is under threat. Here’s why.
Amazing new Reso...
Development Nutshell (22m). Audio roundup of blogs on From Poverty to Power, w/b 7th August (dog interrupted)
Desperately trying to get through this week's posts before going on holiday, while also looking after my son's hyperactive spaniel.
Development Nutshell pod. 25m roundup of posts for w/b 31st July
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How did we get here? Great chronology of citizen and corporate action on climate
In your mid/late career and want to do a...
Development Nutshell podcast. 25m roundup of posts for w/b 24th July
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School children are bearing the brunt of the global hunger crisis – just feed them
How the United Nations and the World Bank...
Development Nutshell podcast. 28m roundup of posts for w/b 10th and 17th July
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The methodology behind Oxfam’s latest killer fact on companies $1 trillion in windfall profits
Some good news on falling glo...
Development Nutshell, bumper edition (34m). Audio roundup of June/July blogs on From Poverty to Power
Fixing the power imbalances of aid and development: A paradox
Is it right to prioritise fragile states in the climate crisis?
Book Review:...
Development Nutshell: Audio summary (16m) of this week's posts, w/b 29th May
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Reforming the World Bank: some good ideas, but where's the power, politics and feasibility?
How to get people to take the Ca...
Development Nutshell: round-up (30m) of FP2P posts, w/b 15th and 22nd May
Where thinking and working politically meets gender: tactics that have worked
Podcast + transcript: did we get it wrong on land grabs in Africa?...
Land Governance in Africa: what the World Bank and others got wrong. In Conversation with Laura German
Want to know what happened to the whole issue of land governance, land grabs and women's land rights in Africa? Here's anthropology professor Laura Ge...
Development Nutshell: round-up (30m) of FP2P posts, w/b 1st and 8th May
Seeing the forest beyond the trees: Coalition building in Indonesia and beyond and the lessons for donors
Older and at the Sharp End: Why more S...
Development Nutshell: round-up (24m) of FP2P posts, w/b 24th April
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Aid in 'Politically Estranged Settings' and the Disappointment Cycle of reading new papers
Book Review: Reimagining Civil S...
Development Nutshell: round-up (30m) of FP2P posts, w/b 17th April
Citizen action for accountability in challenging contexts: What have we learned?
Venture Philanthropy and Asset Based Community-Driven Developm...
Development Nutshell: round-up (21m) of FP2P posts, w/b 27th March
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6 tricks for diverting Britain’s Aid to the UK
Oxfam and BRAC: the links between Bloody-Mindedness and Innovation
How...
Development Nutshell: round-up (26m) of FP2P posts, w/b 20th March
UK Budget 2023: What the Big Red Box leaves out
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Book Review: Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of C...
Development Nutshell: round-up of FP2P posts, w/b 13th March
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Bread and roses – why Oxfam is shining a light on feminist movements this March
White Saviorism in International developm...
Development Nutshell: round-up (21m) of FP2P posts, w/b 13th February
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Five types of humanitarian influence
Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity
Development Nutshell: round-up (21m) of FP2P posts, w/b 6th February
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Is Class the Missing Dimension in the Aid Sector’s search for Diversity?
Great New Guide to 'Systems Thinking and Practice'...
Development Nutshell: round-up (25m) of FP2P posts, w/b 30th January
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Top Tips on Seminar Presentations and the return to IRL - In Real Life
The Global role of Grandmothers in the Care Economy
Development Nutshell: round-up (17m) of FP2P posts, w/b 23rd January
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The Changing Nature of (my) ‘Field Trips’
9 Useful Roles INGOs can play as Intermediaries in an Age of Localization
Bo...
Development Nutshell: round-up (28m) of FP2P posts, w/b 16th January
Taxation of the World’s Super-Rich has collapsed: as 1 in 8 people go to bed hungry, that has to change
Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies: the polit...
Development Nutshell: round-up (24m) of FP2P posts, w/b 9th January
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Humanitarians Must Reject the Taliban's Misogyny
How well does the IMF engage with civil society?
What do LSE Activ...
Development Nutshell: round-up (21m) of FP2P posts, Christmas/New Year 2022/3
Edible Economics: A Christmas Cracker of a book
It’s Christmas time. Let’s talk about the world’s worst ever Christmas song (and the transatlant...
Development Nutshell: round-up (20m) of FP2P posts, w/b 28th November and 5th December
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Talking to Tory backbenchers about Aid
Austerity as Gender-Based Violence
Development Nutshell: audio round-up (22m)...
Development Nutshell: round-up (22m) of FP2P posts, w/b 14th and 21st November
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Rebecca Solnit: Why climate despair is a luxury
The links between war and hunger
Talking to Tory backbenchers abou...
Development Nutshell: round-up (23m) of FP2P posts, w/b 31st October and 7th November
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Can the UK become a development superpower again? Stefan Dercon’s memo to the new Development Minister
'Imagine There's No...
Development Nutshell: round-up (21m) of FP2P posts, w/b 24th October
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Top Tips and Dilemmas in Influencing from seven senior Aid Leaders
Book Review: Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era
Development Nutshell: round-up (25m) of FP2P posts, w/b 17th October
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‘Think Chess not Checkers’: Wilf Mwamba on the role of Analysis in effective Influencing
As Oxfam turns 80, here are three b...
Wilf Mwamba on Thinking and Working Politically
For our Global Executive Leadership Initiative training on influencing, I interviewed Wilf Mwamba, a long term FCDO/DFID practitioner-thinker on TWP,...
Development Nutshell: round-up (20m) of FP2P posts, w/b 10th October
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Which Governments do/don’t care about Inequality?
‘Never let the Silence Reign’: in Conversation with William Chemaly on the...