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Powerful stories of leadership, resilience and learning from Eastern DRC

2025-12-19T09:10:47+00:00December 18th, 2025|

We are proud to share learning and reflections from the successful conclusion of two online leadership programmes with leaders in Eastern DRC. Over recent months, we worked with two cohorts: leaders from six dynamic civil society organisations working around Kahuzi-Biega National Park to promote community-led forest governance, and members of the Indigenous Peoples’ Ambassador Circle — Indigenous leaders who play a vital role in shaping and delivering our Indigenous Peoples’ leadership programme. As conflict escalated across North and South Kivu, both programmes had to adapt rapidly. Together with our partners, we made the collective decision to move fully online in early [...]

Hope is not an endangered species

2022-03-11T13:45:15+00:00August 30th, 2019|

Albert Einstein once said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”. His words came to me when I was asked to write a blog piece about the biodiversity crisis. I started reading about how scientists in Alaska have identified that global warming is happening far faster than anybody feared. About glaciers in the Himalayas melting twice as fast as previously predicted, causing drought and famine for large parts of South Asia. How insect populations in Europe have crashed. To call it an “environmental crisis” makes it seem somehow out of our [...]

Bringing legislators and communities face to face – how one Congolese organisation has changed how laws are written

2022-03-11T13:45:08+00:00April 19th, 2017|

Well Grounded is publishing a series of blog posts that tells the stories of people and organisations who have spoken out, who have found new ways to solve old problems and who have stuck at it in impossible circumstances in the pursuit of social and environmental justice. Be inspired! Civil society organisations can influence legislation in all sorts of ways: lobbying, campaigning, researching, making proposals and so forth. One effective approach is to work directly with the people who develop laws and to support them in developing the very text that becomes legislation. An organisation that has done this really successfully [...]

People, organisations and positive change: an occasional blog series

2022-03-11T13:45:08+00:00February 27th, 2017|

Well Grounded is publishing a series of blog posts that tells the stories of people and organisations who have spoken out, who have found new ways to solve old problems and who have stuck at it in impossible circumstances in the pursuit of social and environmental justice. Be inspired! In the United States at the moment, a leader is sat in the White House signing executive orders that close the doors of the world’s richest country to refugees on the basis of nationality and religion and that deny services to women all over the world. The president has not divested himself [...]

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