In this interview Graciela Hopstein of the Brazilian Philanthropy Network for Social Justice speaks with GIFE – Group of Institutes, Foundations and Enterprises, Brazil about the role and centrality of social movements in bringing about systemic transformations to create the world we seek. She reflects on the challenges social movements and the civic space face…
Resilient is a word frequently used by human rights activists and the development sector, to describe persons affected by war and violence. In Sri Lanka, the mothers of the disappeared are praised for their resilience when they continue their struggle for justice despite intimidation and harassment. Women headed households labouring to eke out a living…
Resilience has been the word on everyone’s lips over the last year. We’ve probably all felt our resilience tested or reaffirmed in different ways. For those of us who have been directly responding to the impacts of the pandemic on people and planet, resilience has been a helpful concept to frame the individual and collective…
Sometime during a recent PEXForum conference, I wrote on my notepad that resilience has become the development sector’s new buzzword. Others have made the same discovery. PSJP’s new paper, Building Resilience in International Development lists a raft of references to the term in the later literature of development and it seems that multilateral organisations, foundations,…
Episode 1: Martin Macwan and Stephen Pittam 25th JANUARY 2021 7:00 AM EST 12:00 PM UTC & GMT 5:30 PM IST REGISTER HERE About this Event You are invited to participate in a conversation between Martin Macwan and Stephen Pittam, two seasoned activists from two different countries but united in their commitment to social…
This blog post is prompted by the provocative article entitled Institutional Philanthropy and Popular Organising in Africa: Some Initial Reflections from Social Movement Activists by Halima Mohamed which draws on the experiences of activists from 13 different movements across Africa. I am part of one of those movements. Social movements are proof of ordinary people’s…
By Andrew Milner, Lisa Jordan and Stef van Dongen As the pandemic has stood the world on its head, one of the debates which has been thrown wide open is that of the future of the economy. PSJP has therefore launched an inquiry into how markets can be made to work for the common good…
What builds community resilience? In this article posted on the India Development Review, Ruchita Chandrashekar, a behavioural health researcher and independent psychologist focusing on trauma and post-violence recovery offers important lessons for development and philanthropic organizations in their attempt to support communities through difficult times. As elements that are integral to building community resilience, she…
Since March 2020, Indonesia has recorded 127,000 cases of Covid-19 at the time of writing, the 24th highest figure in the world. While the pandemic has brought crises and apprehension, it has also brought some blessings in disguise. For one thing, it has stimulated a rise in giving during the first few months of pandemic,…
To follow up his article, #BuildBackBetter, Barry Knight is researching practical ways to make this happen. In the first of a series of articles, he examines the role of the individual, and concludes that a necessary condition of rebuilding society is to face the ‘shadow’ we all have within ourselves. The air is thick with chickens…