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Latest Posts
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Understanding Power 2: Valuing Lived Experience and Technical Expertise Equally
The tension between technical expertise and lived experience impacts power dynamics within organizations. Valuing both equally is essential for equitable partnerships, local leadership, and effective problem-solving in communities.
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Embracing the Complexity of Intersectionality
Intersectionality is a vital framework for understanding how diverse identities and experiences shape individuals’ and communities’ interactions with development processes. Rooted in the idea that various aspects of identity—such as race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability—do not exist in isolation but intersect in complex ways, intersectionality challenges us to move beyond one-dimensional approaches to development.
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Measuring the Effectiveness of your JEDI Program
Measuring JEDI effectiveness requires a mixed approach, focusing on both quantitative and qualitative data, involving communities in goal setting, and assessing long-term cultural and systemic changes for meaningful impact.
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Understanding Power Better 1: Power Analysis
This is a new series of posts on power. It is inspired by conversations during my course ‘RADIQUAL M&E: Practicing Participatory, Decolonial, Intersectional, and Inclusive Methods’. In it, we talk about how starting with a deep understanding of power at the individual level can help us to shift it at the sector and global level.
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How to: Powercube Analysis
Stephen Lukes’ Powercube helps identify power levels, institutions, and policies affecting work at global, national, and local levels.
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Checklist: Types of Accountability
Consider four accountability types (not ‘horizontal’, ‘upward’, and ‘downward’) for inclusive strategy and project design. Reflect and incorporate.
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Challenging Eurocentrism
Eurocentric approaches perpetuate colonial legacies, shaping global power dynamics. Decolonisation requires understanding and dismantling these structures, fostering inclusive, participatory development rooted in diverse perspectives. Collective action is crucial for this transformative process.
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How to do Causal Mapping
This guide offers a causal mapping exercise to identify connections between root, immediate, and secondary problems and their causes. It uses a tree structure to address problems and their causes, aiding in strategy design.
