The Problem with Partnerships: What is a decolonised partnership? | S1 E6

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We’re wrapping up The Problem with Partnerships series with a question at the core of our work: what is a decolonised partnership? Hear from all the experts from the series, plus a new guest from Peace Direct’s programmes team.
Continue your decolonisation journey:
Transforming Partnerships, a guide by Peace Direct to help organisations in the Global North and South to build better partnerships: https://www.peacedirect.org/transforming-partnerships/.

A guide to the nine roles that intermediaries can play in international cooperation: https://www.peacedirect.org/the-nine-roles-that-intermediaries-can-play-in-international-cooperation/

Too Southern To Be Funded: The Funding Bias Against the Global South: https://www.peacedirect.org/too-southern-to-be-funded/.
“This is the Work,” a set of resources to decolonise policy and advocacy approaches, co-developed by Peace Direct, Bond NGO, and The Advocacy Team:

Race, Power & Peacebuilding was written to explore and to understand how racism manifests itself in the peacebuilding sector: https://www.peacedirect.org/race-power-and-peacebuilding/.

Decolonize! What does it mean? from Oxfam: https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/decolonize-what-does-it-mean-621456/.

Decolonisation Resources: Reading List from The Development Hub: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dl_RTK1aHbvSXxYZUjR1zF1p2NAQLEE6/view.

Localisation and decolonization – a Peace Direct resource exploring the nuances of each concept, examining the problematic mixing of the terms, and outlining how we can change systems in a tangible way: https://www.peacedirect.org/localisation-and-decolonisation/
Speaker biographies:
Raaval Singh Bains: Research Officer at Peace Direct on secondment to decolonise Peace Direct’s approaches internally and externally.
Dr Véronique Barbelet: an independent humanitarian policy researcher and a Research Associate with the Overseas Development Institute’s Humanitarian Policy Group.
Dr Jamie Hagen: founding co-director of the Centre for Gender in Politics.
Ishani Ida Cordeiro: Advocacy & Accountability Manager at Women Enabled International.
Nicoline Nwenushi Wazeh: Founder of Pathways for Women’s Empowerment and Development.
Chernor Bah: Minister of Information and Civic Education in Sierra Leone and the Co-founder of Purposeful, a feminist hub for girls’ activism, rooted in Africa and working all around the world.
Jennifer Pobi-Browne: an International Programmes Manager at Peace Direct. Jennifer is responsible for supporting the International Programmes team in their day to day work with partners, and for coordinating our atrocity prevention work in Burundi and DRC. She has over 10 years experience working in human rights, with a particular focus on the rights of women, children and young people in Latin America. Before joining the Peace Direct team, she was Programmes Manager for an NGO working in Colombia, supporting local partners to build safer communities through youth advocacy, psychosocial support and rights education.