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Follow #ThinkLandscape on Twitter and check out our updates Three months in, how is the Emergent Agency in a Time of Covid project shaping up? 21 December, 2020 - 13:20 One of the bright spots in a generally crap year has been the Emergent Agency project. It emerged in the early weeks of the pandemic from a brief conversation with Armine Ishkanian, who runs the LSE’s Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) programme. Would Covid lead to new forms of grassroots organization? Wouldn’t […]

How to decolonise International Development: some practical suggestions 18 December, 2020 - 15:10 Guest post by Lucy Morris & Andres Gomez de la Torre, who work for and with INGOs in different capacities (e.g. members of staff, trustee, consultant, etc). “If your conversation on this matter is not uncomfortable, you are not having the right conversation!” Recent developments around the world have rightly brought back old calls for […]

Follow #ThinkLandscape on Twitter and check out our updates Argentina introduces a Wealth Tax (aka ‘the Oxfam Tax’). Could this be the start of something big? 17 December, 2020 - 10:20 Asier Hernando Malax-Echevarria discusses what looks like an important advocacy win The Argentine Senate has just passed the ‘Solidarity and Extraordinary Contribution of Great Fortunes’ law, a one-off tax intended to help cover the costs of the COVID19 pandemic in a country where it has so far killed 40,000 people. The tax will pay for […]

Gender, Power and Progress: How Norms Change 16 December, 2020 - 11:10 A very good paper on a fascinating and important topic, by Caroline Harper, Rachel Marcus, Rachel George, Sophia M. D’Angelo, Emma Samman, published by ODI and ALIGN. The research questions are ambitious: how gender norms have changed over the past quarter-century, what has supported and blocked changes to gender norms in a number of sectors, and how to ensure […]