March 2020 - Well Grounded

admin2022-03-11T13:45:15+00:00March 26th, 2020|

These are unpredictable times during which we cannot know from one day to the next how the Covid-19 pandemic will evolve. We can’t anticipate, nor control, the measures our leaders will take. I feel I have been through this before, with a different dimension. I am Congolese from Goma, and I am part of the unlucky, or lucky, generation that has lived in a Congo at war for two decades. But this war against Covid 19 is different: we can’t see the enemy, only the damage it is causing. Our clients, the civil society organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, [...]

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

admin2022-03-11T13:45:15+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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How interventions in the “North” can jeopardise leadership in the “South”