It was great to have the opportunity to discuss RINGO and my book, 'the INGO Problem' at the University of Manchester earlier this week, alongside the ever-inspiring Nana Afadzinu. There was a lot to chew over but one of the things that I was immediately struck by was the fact that students are still learning how to complete Log Frames as a form of accountability (and, I presume, risk management). I'm sure it's being demanded by future employers -- donors or INGOs -- but there are so many other things that they can and should be learning:
1. First, teach them accountability to communities, and how to engage with local people and find out what success looks like for them.
2. Teach them about mutual accountability, as demonstrated in the Pledge for Change PALM model and how INGOs and donors should be reporting downwards, not just local CSOs reporting upwards. https://lnkd.in/eXPNF3xV.
3. Teach them about supporting civil society through core and flexible funding -- not through complicated, cause-and-effect linear log frames based on projects.
4. And teach them about real and proportionate risk sharing and how it's local communities who hold the risk, not the donors, and ask them to devise new ways to negotiate and manage risk, that shift power and recognise where real work is done.
I'm sure others experienced in MEAL here will have more to say here! Sadaf S. is the first person who comes to mind.
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We were delighted to host the incredible Nana Afadzinu and Deborah Doane to The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute to discuss all things Southern leadership in global development.
They shared their decades of experience working within the deep inequalities that characterise relationships between NGOs in the Global North and South, shared their incredible efforts to tackle these through Re-imagining the INGO (RINGO) and how innovative prototypes emerging from this convening, and their optimism - despite what we’re up against in the scale and depths of these challenges - towards a more equitable system grounded in greater respect for local knowledge, funding and ownership and new spaces through which Southern organisations can lead local agendas.
And of course we celebrated One World Together for standing out in this landscape, for its efforts in building a new, solidarity-fuelled system and to get more funds, on better terms direct to community organisations!
The event was hosted by our Chief Steward Nicola Banks and One World Together Students' Union Society’s Treasurer, Selim Iyidirli.
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