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Marcienne Emougou takes up new role leading Well Grounded’s strategic priorities in Congo Basin region

2024-03-04T11:54:32+00:00November 20th, 2023|

20 November, 2023 We are thrilled to share that our longstanding colleague Marcienne Emougou will be taking up a new position with Well Grounded as Regional Lead for our activities in the Congo Basin region. Marcienne has a background in urban planning and the environment, and joined Well Grounded in 2018. She has played a number of roles at Well Grounded spanning our core programmes: she has led organisation development support with CSO partners in Cameroon, as well as spearheading our skills and learning programme around asset based community development approaches. Over the last two years, she has [...]

How interventions in the “North” can jeopardise leadership in the “South”

2022-03-11T13:45:15+00:00March 5th, 2020|

Behind popular concepts, real imbalances remain Working for a long time with European NGOs linked to Africa, I was often embarrassed by the unspoken vertical relationship, and by the imbalance that often occurs between an NGO from the North and a partner organisation from the South. Northern NGOs, and funders, want to implement projects and programmes they care for and to answer problems they have identified as priorities by putting forward the answers they find the most relevant and urgent.   Nowadays, there is a trend to consult southern NGOs and to get them to participate in the conception of projects, to [...]

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