This piece originally appeared in Alliance magazine. Seven hundred extraordinary people from philanthropies, developmental agencies, NGOs, and community groups, gathered in Bogotá, Colombia last December to deliberate on the unequal power distribution in the global developmental sector,[1] and to find paths to redress this distortion. The call from Bogotá International development has become the primary vehicle for the delivery of humanitarian aid and development supplementing the State functions in developing countries. The theoretical underpinning of this system can be summarized around the aspirations of bottom-up development, with people at the centre of these endeavours, working within the framework of human dignity, rights, and development...
This piece originally appeared in Alliance magazine. Seven hundred extraordinary people from philanthropies, developmental agencies, NGOs, and community groups, gathered in Bogotá, Colombia last December to deliberate on the unequal power distribution in the global developmental sector,[1] and to find paths to...