Watch! Rita Thapa on flawed aid structures & shifting the power in Nepal

Rita Thapa established Tewa, the Nepal Women’s Fund in 1995 when she became convinced that she was becoming part of the problem she was trying to address. Dependency on external development aid had served to undermine Nepal’s local systems of help and solidarity, and donor funding rarely reached far enough down into communities. For more than 20 years, Tewa has worked to bring local women into the forefront of local development.  “I don’t think we can do good work from flawed structures,” she says. Hear her share her story at the Global Summit on Community Philanthropy in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 1st and 2nd 2016. Click to watch.