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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Bond AGM: what was progressive?
The Bond AGM last week took a few notable decisions. Congratulations to Charles Kazibwe and Jessica Woodroffe on their elections to the Board and commiserations to those who didn’t make it. The AGM also adopted a Charter of principles for … Continue reading
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Policing NGOs’ use of unacceptable imagery
One of the interesting things to come out of this week’s Bond AGM was a first discussion of how to police the international development sector in Britain. This came up particularly in the context of the debate over imagery and … Continue reading
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DFID fails the TUC’s Decent Work test
I’ve got a post over at Left Foot Forward summarising our new report “A decent job?” which assess DFID for its contribution towards the ‘Decent Work Agenda’ – a set of policy objectives developed and promoted by the International Labour … Continue reading
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Opening up political debate on international development
Jonathan Glennie has a post on the Guardian Poverty Matters Blog today which echoes my analysis of Ivan Lewis’s speech to Labour Party Conference. In particular, Jonathan welcomes the way Ivan is beginning to open up a real political debate … Continue reading
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Tagged aid, Andrew Mitchell, detoxification, development, Ivan Lewis, Justine Greening
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Ivan Lewis’ speech: clear red water, beyond aid
Ivan Lewis’ speech to Labour Party Conference today was more than a conference pleasing attack on the right-wing dinosaurs like Lord Ashcroft who want to see the overseas aid budget cut. It was also an argument against the paternalist, charitable vision … Continue reading
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