It’s Time to Decolonise Aid
Why it is important for NGOs, INGOs and international organizations to understand the legacy of colonialism in development and take active steps to decolonising their attitudes, policies, and practices.
Le recensement des financements pour la justice raciale : un impératif politique
Depuis 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) et Candid travaillent en partenariat pour mener des recherches visant à mieux caractériser le financement des droits humains dans le monde. Nos analyses fournissent une base de connaissances factuelles pour soutenir la compréhension et le renforcement de l’apport de ressources pour le changement social.
[ES] Mapeo de fondos para la justicia racial: un imperativo político
Desde 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) y Candid han colaborado en una investigación que mapea los fondos para los derechos humanos a nivel mundial. Nuestro análisis ofrece una base de evidencia para entender y fortalecer la forma en que se conceden recursos para el cambio social.
Community-Driven Grantmaking: improving decisions and building trust
For almost a decade, I’ve been part of a community-driven grantmaking exercise the likes of which I could never have imagined. This radical exercise started when I was a trustee at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, today’s most widely used knowledge repository. In 2012, the Wikimedia Foundation set up a volunteer
Mareas Verdes de Sinaloa, San Luis Potosí y Michoacán, su contribución al movimiento feminista y a la estrategia de donativo de Fondo Semillas (2019-2020)
Evaluación de tres Mareas Verdes (movimientos emergentes que trabajan en favor del derecho al aborto) descentralizadas en México, su impacto social y la importancia de financiar procesos organizativos contextuales
Ataques fundamentalistas en voz de las activistas mexicanas, 2019-2020
Caracterización de los ataques al género, los derechos humanos y los principios democráticos desde las voces de activistas feministas y personas LGBTIQ+ de México; así como propuestas y narrativas que conjugan los aprendizajes de los activistas feministas para construir un mundo sin fundamentalismos y con sistemas políticos más justos, democráticos y libres de opresiones.
Adaptability and Learning Are Core to Enhancing Human Rights Outcomes
For more than 15 years, I have worked as a lawyer and advocate for human rights in Uganda. As the executive director of an organisation that mostly relies on grant funding, I was thrilled to learn that grantmakers in the field of human rights had embarked on an introspective process to align their grantmaking practices
“The Takeover of Congress Did Not End on January 6” — Mariano Aguirre
The unprecedented riots, which took place at the US Capital on January 6, sent shock waves throughout the world. And as we try to understand the magnitude of such an attack on our democracy, Mariano Aguirre warns that “white collar authoritarians will continue to work in the United States, and other countries, to impose extremist
Crisis at the Capitol: Human rights in the era of White American extremism
I watched in shock. I watched in fury. I watched in sorrow. Yesterday’s riots at the United States Capitol brought home a reality that will be familiar to many in HRFN’s global family. It is not sanctimony or an abstract respect for governance that brings tears to my eyes. As a network of