Highlights from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit

Looking for blogs, photos, videos and other highlights from the December 2023 #ShiftThePower Global Summit in Bogotá? Head to the Summit website, which will be regularly updated in the coming weeks! Or check out some of the blogs here:

• Trust is the key to shifting the power (Soni Khanal, Accountability Lab Nepal)
• Shifting the power – a call to transformation rooted in the personal (Masarat Daud, Adeso)
• International philanthropy needs a strategy for human rights, well-being, justice and peace (Pooja Singh, Adolescent Girls Investment Plan)
• “The #ShiftThePower agenda is a liberation agenda” – interview with Dzikamai Bere, ZimRights (conducted by Tarisai Jangara, Africa Philanthropy Network)
• Shifting power in Bogotá: Notes from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit (Lena Bheeroo, Bond)
• It takes all of us: Shifting power and decolonizing development (Grace Boone, CDA Collaborative Learning & Jasmine Kato-Naughton, Peace Direct – Stopping As Success consortium members)
• “Imagine if the Haitian revolutionaries had to write a proposal?”: Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Summit (Taís Siqueira, CIVICUS)
• Power to breathe: Reflections on my participation at the #ShiftThePower Global Summit 2023 (Yasmin Morais, Comuá Network)

• The energy of local changemakers is our most powerful resource (Eleanor Cater, Community Foundations of Aotearoa NZ)
• Four takeaways for philanthropy from #ShiftThePower (Ayan Ahmed, Jesse Eaves and Lexi Ferry-Smith, Humanity United)
• Shifting the power and breaking norms (Christine Sow and Kim Kucinskas, Humentum)
• Empowering communities: Insights from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit in Bogotá (Alex Ross, Loop)
• Reclaiming the lost power of alternatives, diversity, and solidarity (Elizaphan Ogechi, Nguzo Africa)
• ‘Shift the power’: Narrow internal gaze or shaping an equal future? (Amitabh Behar, Oxfam International)
• “He who pays the piper calls the tune” (Le Sen, Nishchhal Kharal and Celine Osukwu, Peace Starts Here campaign)
• Is this community philanthropy’s moment? (Ledys Sanjuan Mejía, Proximate Press)
• The change is now – but how? (Rebecca Hanshaw and Barry Knight, Reforming International Development)

• Power shifting through building a community towards collective change (Yande Kalengo, Restless Development)
• Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit: What can funders do differently? (Re-Imagining the INGO – RINGO)
• Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit (Shelly Satuku, SIVIO Institute)
• Three lessons for peace, from Latin America (Felipe Bogotá Rodríguez, TerritoriA)
• Evolving together: What caterpillars can teach us about transforming philanthropy (Kate Cummings, The Lotus Institute & Tsunagu)
• Co-existing in a flawed system, in rest, in care: Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit (Gloria Mugabekazi, UHAI EASHRI)
• Decolonial justice at the border: #ShiftThePower in Bogotá (Massah Esther Nyally Bockarie, We Are Purposeful)
• Shifting power for Palestine – it’s more than just power (Themrise Khan)