Dear Readers, The time has come to say goodbye as our blog What The Aid is coming to an end. But let us first recap the last weeks. The main goal of our blog was to raise awareness and encourage you, our readers, to reflect on our leading thread innovation …
As we have already explored in previous posts, the colonial past of the aid sector and the racism that still exists in aid organisations are highly problematic. In this post, I will attempt to dive deeper into the discussion, and link the discussion to relevant concepts and existing academic literature. …
Achieving strong gender equality outcomes requires adequate, sustained financing in support of gender equality and women’s empowerment. The international community has long recognized that investing in women-led crisis response and prioritizing gender equality are key to effectively meet humanitarian and recovery needs, and to achieve peace and prosperity1. Additionally, on …
While the idea of feminist movement is to protect all women’s rights, mainstream women’s media has supported the view of celebrating only “few” feminist leaders, ignoring women from marginalised groups. So, the problem with mainstream feminism is that it is quite affected by colonialism in perceptions of race, class, sexuality, …
“Imagine how it feels to be chased out of home. To have your grip ripped, loosened, from your fingertips something you so dearly held on to. Like a lover’s hand that slips when pulled away you are always reaching.” (JJ Bola, 2018) This is the start of the poem Refuge by …
As ICTs developed as a means of expression, offering users the possibility of expressing themselves and sharing content freely, some behaviours against gender equality began to be noticed, reproducing the situation in the offline (physical) context. It became necessary that all these issues of human rights are included in the …
In an ever changing world, technology plays an increasing role in the aid sector – from the way we communicate for and about development, to the delivery of aid itself. We invite you on our blogging journey to discover a range of thematic threads, where we try to explain the intersection between innovation and the aid sector.
