Disrupt Development

08/07/2021

In this third episode of the Beyond Poverty P**n series, Emiel Martens and Wouter Oomen of the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication sit down with jury members Mina Etemad and Gigi Pasco Ong-Alok to announce the winners of the Humanitarian Communication Awards 2021! They dive into what trends stood out, how they came to the final award selection and what role media and communications campaigns should have in development.
Who are the winners of the Fly in the Eye & Highflyer awards?
*drumroll*
► The Fly in the Eye award goes to...

✘ 'A Case of Joy' by Compassion Nederland
► The Highflyer award goes to...

✔ ‘An important voice message from Jairo’ by Rutgers kenniscentrum seksualiteit
Tune in! And read more about the winners and nominations here: https://humanitairecommunicatie.nl/awards-2021/

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01/07/2021

What is the current state of civil society and what are positive and negative trends that will influence the work in the coming decade?

As part of the Partos , Partos and Disrupt Development embark on a journey to seek answers. We voice development professionals -from Partos members, frontrunning innovators and disruptors- and dive into the ins- and outs of the future of development and what it means for Partos.

In this episode of the Partos podcast, we sat down with international thought leaders Lysa John and Barbara Oosters to dive into the future pathway of shifting space for civil society.

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22/06/2021

What is the role of resilience & adaptive management in global development? And why does it matter?

As part of the Partos , Partos and Disrupt Development embark on a journey to seek answers. We voice development professionals -from Partos members, frontrunning innovators and disruptors- and dive into the ins- and outs of the future of development and what it means for Partos.

In this second episode of the Partos podcast, we sat down with Dr Tina Comes to dive into dynamic and adaptive policy pathways.

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15/06/2021

We live in volatile, uncertain, and complex times. So, how do we navigate this age of complexity in global ?

As part of the Partos , Partos and Disrupt Development embark on a journey to seek answers. We voice development professionals -from Partos members, front-running innovators, and disruptors- and dive into the ins- and outs of the future of development and what it means for Partos.
In the first episode, we sat down with Bart Romijn, the Director of Partos. We dive into why Partos is uniquely positioned for this future exploration, why this exploration is so needed, and in what ways the outcomes of the exploration will serve Dutch Development NGOs.

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11/06/2021

How can we bridge research and practice? And what role can academia play in the pursuit of sustainable change?

Young AMID professionals Aysegul Ciler and Carlo Cucchi sat down with Domenico Dentoni, full professor in Business Resilience and Transformation at Montpellier Business, to find out. Together, they are diving into what ways academia can play a role in bringing heterogeneous groups of actors together as well as inform their decision-making with scientific evidence insights.

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10/06/2021

How can we ? How can we build a world where truly no one is left behind, where every voice counts, and where progress thrives? It is time for another Talk the Walk!

The Disrupt Development Community is glad to organize the Talk the Walk open room sessions. In this weekly meet-up, disruptors from all over the world will share ideas, ambitions, learnings, and plans to disrupt development! Building the change we want to see starts here. What talk will you walk?

Join us tomorrow at 1 pm CEST! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/158288839179

Join the Talk the Walk session of the Disrupt Development Community! Together, we will Talk the Walk to disrupt development!

03/06/2021

How can we disrupt development? How can we build a world where truly no one is left behind, where every voice counts, and where progress thrives? It is time to Talk the Walk! This Friday at 2pm (CET)!

The Disrupt Development Community is glad to organize the Talk the Walk open room sessions. In this weekly meet-up, disruptors from all over the world will share ideas, ambitions, learnings, and plans to disrupt development! Building the change we want to see starts here. What talk will you walk?

Make sure to sign up now! Go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/talk-the-walk-sessions-tickets-157220086511

Join the Talk the Walk session of the Disrupt Development Community! Together, we will Talk the Walk to disrupt development!

27/05/2021

In this for StoryCast, Shelby Demmerer & Felix Krüssmann take a deep dive into .

How have international negotiations been changed in the face of the pandemic? And what can young professionals learn from it? Shelby and Felix had the chance to talk to international negotiation expert Robin de Vogel from the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations about it!

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In partnership with AMID

13/05/2021

On May 11 and 12, our founder & chief strategist Alexander Medik embarked on a journey to disrupt development together with a group of 55 , , , and from across civil society and around the world — representing human rights, development, humanitarian, environment, and peacebuilding — selected for their desire to transform the sector.

This marked the formal beginning to the project, a two-year systems change initiative that seeks to transform global civil society to respond to today’s challenges.

The RINGO Project: Re-Imagining the INGO and the Role of Global Civil Society Sign up for our newsletter Reimagining the INGO Sector: Let the Long-Awaited Change Begin Facilitator: “Describe an INGO to someone who… Read More More Reimagining the INGO Sector: Let the Long-Awaited Change Begin Fac...

11/05/2021

Throughout Africa, the pandemic has led to new and urgent challenges for many communities. With that, it has become increasingly important to rethink and redesign community organizing for development. But why is that and what would that look like?

In the article, development practitioners and community leaders Ese Emerhi, Florence Kayemba, and Charles Kojo Vandyck highlight the challenges for local communities in Africa and provide innovative ways forward. They map out the priority interventions donors should invest in to support community actors in building resilience when responding to power dynamics within the broken aid system in the Global South.

https://www.disruptdevelopment.org/stories-1/community-as-a-response-communities-organizing-for-their-development TrustAfrica

In 2019, the African Union adopted the theme ‘Silencing the Guns’ for the year 2020. The initiative aimed at preventing and stopping all forms of violent conflict by the end of 2020. However, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and its attendant effects on emerging economies on the continent pres...

10/05/2021

Last week we were happy to welcome Gigi Pasco Ong-Alok
to the Disrupt Development team as our Diversity & Inclusion Innovation specialist.

Gigi is passionate about facilitating change trajectories and offering innovative solutions that aim to build inclusive and transformational approaches in everyday attitudes, practice and program strategies.

For the past five years, he has facilitated outreach and solidarity support to global civil society actors to address social, gender and racial injustices and reclaim their rights in their respective societies. Converging his background in grassroot activism, non-profit work and D&I consultancy, he has a strong vision for inclusive leadership, providing tools to identify 'blindspots' and 'systemic misfits' that uphold social inequalities.

"I believe that inclusion and intersectionality are driving forces behind innovation, as they break down silos of exclusive categories (race, gender, age, abilities, etc.) and turn them into interconnected virtues and actual change agents of their futures."

As an engagement, diversity and inclusion specialist, Gigi is passionate about facilitating change trajectories and offering innovative solutions that aim to build inclusive and transformational approaches in everyday attitudes, practice and program strategies.  For the past five years,

09/05/2021

Next to aboloshing the Department for International Development (DFID) last year the last week the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office decided to cut ✔4 billion to international aid.

We put the figures together and they are devastating:

❌ 41% cut to humanitarian assistance
❌ 68% cut to conflict and open societies
❌ 40% education
❌ 25% cut to girls’ education
❌ 85% life-saving family planning to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNAIDS
❌ 95% cut in polio eradication
❌ 80% cut to WASH projects focusing on clean water and sanitation
❌ 9% cut to health

Disrupt Development condems these draconian cuts of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. As the UK prepares to host G7 world leaders, this decision undermines the country’s reputation for practicing the values it preaches, and limiting its ability to spur action on some of the world’s biggest challenges.

Following the statement announcing the ODA budget for 21/22, the FCDO began contacting organisations to inform them of budgets and programmes being cut. Here we look at the reaction from the development and global community.

08/05/2021

Have you designed, built or prototyped a solution that answers a concrete need in your community? Do you know of an innovator who is contributing to making his or her city more inclusive, resilient and sustainable? If it’s an actionable, on-the-ground innovation or approach that helps decision makers understand problems in and around sustainable development, then share your solution with , an initiative from UNDP Accelerator Labs

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Hyundai Motor Company and the United Nations Development Programme are proud to launch for Tomorrow, a global initiative that empowers you to help accelerat...

07/05/2021

Disrupt Development is happy to introduce our new change facilitator & community lead Margreet van der Pijl.

As a change facilitator, Margreet takes people from different types of organizations on a journey to work together and co-create new approaches and new plans so they can work on the change they wish to see in their organizations, their sectors and the ecosystems they are part of.

In the upcoming months Margreet will be co-creating the Disrupt Development community and movement. Interested to join our community? Drop us a DM.

As a change Facilitator, Margreet takes people from different types of organizations on a journey to work together and co-create new approaches and new plans so they can work on the change they wish to see in their organizations, their sectors and their entire ecosystems. Starting in 2008 as the fi

06/05/2021

04/05/2021

The brings together social entrepreneurs, representatives from the private sector, governments, funders, and other agencies involved in to showcase their efforts and the best practices that can accelerate our work in pursuit of the SDGs.

It's free, 100 online sessions, 5 days, register and join here https://buff.ly/3vmlhHs

This Catalysing Change campaign is an ongoing campaign that will ultimately lead to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

29/04/2021

The community struggles to build projects, programs and products that are local-led, reach sustainable scale and achieve systems change.

Disrupt Development helps organisations to grapple with uncertainty and complexity and achieve systems change by drawing on succesful adaptive approaches - , impact, human centred design, adapative management, thinking and working politically and problem-driven iterative adaptation.

This blogseries of Disrupt Development aims to help make sense of some of the similarities and differences across and between these approaches. How is agile different to lean? How is a prototype different from a minimum viable product? How is human centred design different to problem driven iterative adaptation?

In this article we will discuss the final three approaches - thinking and working politically - adaptive management - problem driven iterative adaptation.

Interested in a free consult? Drop us a message!

The first article of this blogseries introduced the context and importance of adaptive approaches. In this second article we introduced the first three approaches - agile - human centred design - lean startup. In this article we will discuss the final three approaches - thinking and working politica

27/04/2021

Disrupt Development is proud to join over 100 organisations calling for a more inclusive and democratic United Nations.

Three practical ideas aimed at enhancing the agency of people, elected representatives and organised civil society in global governance lie at the heart of a joint statement on inclusive global governance published by the initiative on 23 April 2021.

🌐 A World Citizens' Initiative
🌐 UN Parliamentary Assembly
🌐 A UN Civil Society Envoy

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21/04/2021

This paper of Benjamin Kumpf Ben Ramalingam from OECD - OCDE explores how innovation in low and middle-income countries is enhancing their local and national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper also analyses how innovation could further address locally relevant development challenges by mobilising resources, improving processes and catalysing collaboration. Lastly it examines how international development organisations can improve their support for local and national innovation efforts.

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20/04/2021

The private sector’s active involvement is vital in this ambition. But progress is too slow – not because of a lack of intentions, but because of the serious gap in developing advanced strategies in realising the SDGs. It’s difficult to integrate SDGs in core business. So, can corporate leaders step up to the challenge and drive systems change?

Join the free online conference of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University where you can learn from leading thinkers and experts. Speakers include prof. Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University), Peter Bakker (President & CEO of the WBCSD), prof. Mette Morsing (Head of PRME of UN Global Compact), Paul Polman 😷 (Co-Founder of IMAGINE), Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Laureate 2014).

Get tickets to Driving Systems Change - Corporate Leadership for the SDGs, taking place 05/26/2021 to 05/28/2021. Hopin is your source for engaging events and experiences.

17/04/2021

An essay by Isaac Asimov Andy Friedman that describes not only the creative process and the nature of creative people but also the kind of environment that promotes creativity.

Interested in how to create creative mindsets or environments? Drop us a message for a free consult: https://www.disruptdevelopment.org/contact

An essay by Isaac Asimov Andy Friedman that describes not only the creative process and the nature of creative people but also the kind of environment that promotes creativity. ON CREATIVITY How do people get new ideas? Presumably, the process of creativity, whatever it is, is essentially th

16/04/2021

Disrupt Development is excited to announce a new addition to our team Nina Pavlovska. As a learning designer, Nina can conceptualize and facilitate transformational experiences that enable holistic personal growth, collaboration, co-creation, and innovation.

With 10+ years of experience working globally in the cooperation and development sector, Nina got the chance to design, co-create and catalyze learning solutions which put the user driven and foster sustainability, local ownership and leadership. She plays with tools and techniques from design thinking, applied creative facilitation, systems thinking and practice, emergent dialogues, mindfulness, embodiment etc.

Are you looking to create new learning experiences that enable holistic personal growth, collaboration, co-creation, and innovation? Contact us via: https://lnkd.in/gcav7Zq

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As a learning designer, Nina can conceptualize and facilitate transformational experiences that enable holistic personal growth, collaboration, co-creation, and innovation. With 10+ years of experience working globally in the cooperation and development sector, Nina got the chance to design, co-c

15/04/2021

Missed our StoryCast with AMID students Matteo Tarasco and Felix Krüssmann? Check it out!

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In partnership with AMID and Radboud University

In this AMID StoryCast series, students Matteo and Felix dive into private sector-driven development based on their recent learnings. They discuss the pros and cons of bringing together government and industry leaders as a driver of development, and they identify how civil society and INGOs can play

15/04/2021

For our : 'there is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period'

14/04/2021

In this Young Voices for Development StoryCast series, AMID students Matteo Tarasco and Felix Krüssmann take a deep dive into private sector .

Together, they discuss the pros and cons of bringing together government and industry leaders as a driver of development, and they identify how civil society and INGOs can play a part in realizing inclusive value creation that goes beyond trickle-down economics.

Check out the episode here: https://lnkd.in/e8_A4at

In partnership with Advanced Master in International Development - AMID Radboud University

13/04/2021

The RINGO Project is a systems change initiative that seeks to transform global civil society to respond to today’s challenges. In the next 2 years 50 global changemakers, including our chief strategist Alexander Medik, will engage in a that aspires to revolutionise the international civil society sector and .

In March 2021 Ringo launched a report 'Fostering Equitable North-South Civil Society Partnerships'. This report presents the views and voices of global south CSOs and provides records of ideas, suggestions, and recommendations on how NGO north-south relationships and power dynamic should evolve.

The Re-imagining INGO (RINGO) initiative is designed to reassess the purpose, roles and delivery mechanisms of international NGOs and the impact on the global civil society ecosystem. The RINGO approach is dedicated to capturing the views and engaging civil society in the global south that have work...

10/04/2021

Anna Birney Director School of System change and Forum for the Future explores what structures and patterns we might use to facilitate systems change.

'The patterning of systems frameworks, that is the way they dynamically relate and flow together, can help you with designing and facilitating processes and thus help us navigate our change work.'

By Anna Birney from the School of System Change Facilitation is a creative process of bringing awareness to the world. It is about sensing and working with people, interactions, relationships and other dimensions. A lot of this is about following the emerging process and helping to find the poten

08/04/2021

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07/04/2021

For many non-profits fundraising is tantamount to raising as much money as possible and connecting as many donors as possible. But what is the impact of this on the mission of the organization?

Our partners Wouter Oomen from the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication & Asma Naimi from efesai are hosting a seminar where they will discuss the importance, effects and possibilities of ethical communication and impact-oriented fundraising. They will also provide insight into what it takes to scrutinize the communication of your organization and to provide your organization with a healthy impact-oriented fundraising mix.

Date: April 23, 2021
Time: 10.00-11.30am
Registration via: https://lnkd.in/gr35ETV

On Friday April 23rd, from 10.00-11.30am, the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (HuCom) and Fundraising & Strategy International (efesai) will share their academic and practical knowledge. They will talk you through the most recent studies and insights and tell you about:

07/04/2021

"Without local resources, local leadership and local buy-in, development projects will continue to land like fireworks – to flash spectacularly and then die".

Check out episode #8 of the Disrupt Development where we talk with Jenny Hodgson the driving force behind the global movement and Executive Director of The Global Fund for Community Foundations, about disrupting through community philantropy.

Listen here: https://www.disruptdevelopment.org/trendcast/episode-8-shiftthepower-2

In partnership with Partos