Support to develop your expertise around PMEL with creative examples and practical tips for adding these to your existing processes. I use participatory, decolonial, intersectional, and inclusive approaches.
You can download and start using everything today. These are practical tools for everyone. When I began my career, I couldn’t find the resources I was looking for at a reasonable price, written well, or informed by the real world and all its complexities. I want to correct that. PMEL is not one-size-fits-all, and that’s part of what makes it so interesting.
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Latest Posts
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Resource: TAI MEL Handbook
I saw this handbook shared in a group recently and thought it would make a good resource, especially for those interested in a more circular, accountable framework. It’s written by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI), a donor collaborative that works towards citizen empowerment and responsive governance. I like how this framework follows an ecosystem
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Seminar: Who am I?
Speaking at a seminar on how our individual identities intersect at work and help uncover the masks that prevent us from achieving authentic professional and personal fulfilment.
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Bond UK, Gatekeeping, and Performative Allyship
This is a long post, with a chronology of my experiences working directly with Bond. Read on for the irony of telling a UK-based organisation that words without actions are performative, that by gatekeeping based on race they’re building echo chambers of privilege, and that they need to do better, and all of this being…
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Resource: Equality vs Equity by Angus Maguire
I love to use this illustration by Angus Maguire – you will see it on my Pricing page too. It was commissioned some years ago by the Interaction Institute for Social Change and is shared freely and without written permission to reproduce it. Follow the link above to download a high resolution ZIP file with
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Scenario Planning: A Guide
How to adapt, respond, and be adaptive to new scenarios – like global pandemics or crises.
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Using Critical Cultural Competence in PMEL
How to apply critical cultural competence techniques, which help you better understand cultural differences, to deepen your work in PMEL.
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Resource: AWID Feminist Funding Ecosystem
AWID released this report a few years ago, though it’s still useful to our work in reshaping the funding ecosystem. As you’d expect, they focus on the role of power in the ecosystem and from page 39, they propose what a more equitable system could look like – balancing the roles of INGOs, local governments,
