This is an invitation to crowdsource with and beyond our community and activist networks, so we co-create a diverse and inclusive agenda to support the reform of international development.<\/p>

This initiative has grown from research commissioned by H&S Davidson Trust, a UK-based foundation which suggested the following entry points to drive reform: more quality funding; INGO role change; increased collaboration and knowledge sharing; and equal voices. Further background information can be found here.<\/p>

Reforming international development is vast systems change work which needs to be co-created and collectively driven and owned. To help this process, we need to create spaces or \u2018constituency conversations\u2019 where different voices and perspectives can reimagine a system which supports flourishing lives for all.<\/p>

So far there have been several constituency conversations with people from various geographies and parts of the international development ecosystem. While these have been rich and insightful, we are acutely aware they are spaces which have not included, for example, non-English speaking people.<\/p>

To ensure this initiative is shaped by and responds to the needs of those embedded in or closest to the communities that live with protracted conflict, discrimination, and oppression, it is essential we hear from all parts of the ecosystem working to create a better society.<\/p>

To achieve this, we need to extend our reach by working through our networks and asking people like you to involve the community groups, leaders, and activists you know. In turn, we hope they will engage their broader networks and contacts, so the pool of perspectives increases and becomes more inclusive and diverse.<\/p>

It is our explicit intention that this organic crowdsourcing approach reaches those often excluded from these conversations. By doing this, we can help ensure \u2018aid\u2019 and \u2018development\u2019 is informed by, and able to align in solidarity with the political agency of all people.<\/p>

Read the full article about equitable international development at Alliance Magazine.

Over the last few decades, philanthropy and other sectors of the progressive movement have made an enormous leap forward in setting dramatically more ambitious goals. It was not so long ago that few foundations or community organizations would have been focused on eradicating structural racism and narrowing economic inequality, but today, those and similar goals animate broad swathes of the movement (however long-term the aspiration may be).<\/p>

Having struggled with these goals for six decades, I have come to understand that the most pressing question has to do with strategy: How to get from here to there? A three-year plan might suffice for more modest objectives, but what is needed to achieve the transformational goals we have for addressing poverty, racism, and inequity?<\/p>