#GlobalDev

Jennifer Lentfer

Professional do-gooders, we are part of an industry built on the suffering of others, operating inside and perpetuating the extractive systems & societies we profess to “improve.”How does the world

Jennifer Lentfer

There is safety in asking the “big”, high-minded questions. It serves those with privilege to appear as if they are aligned to change, but requires nothing of them. #philanthropy #nonprofit

Jennifer Lentfer

My response to a fellow white woman who feels "there must genuinely be room for all of us in the conversation" re: race & equity in #globaldev orgs: "When I

Jennifer Lentfer

This is why we must, must, must get ourselves together, white women in #globaldev, #philanthropy, #aid, #NGOs, #nonprofits, and #socent. /1 If you're resting in your privilege, not actively &

Hi all. You may have heard about Mercy Corps' #AidToo scandal that broke last week in @Oregonian. I had the privilege of co-authoring an op-ed exploring how the aid sector

Earlier today I shared this screenshot, but I will re-post the entire thread, because it's an unbelievable, insane story which reads like #globaldev satire (1/n) Last summer charliecallinan and I

1/19. I’ve just published a new @commonwealthsec paper looking critically at international support for the world's 47 least developed countries (LDCs). It’s a bit of a monster, so I’m going

Not_that_PeterEvans

POLITICAL RESEARCH IS GOOD FOR YOU!(...in the end)I’ve been commissioning applied* political analysis & research in big development sectors since the '00s. *applied = practical, actionable, plain language.Pol science, Pol

My new @devex piece: Why we should be Doing Development Democratically in this era of democratic backsliding, global protest, and rising authoritarianism https://www.devex.com/news/opinion-doing-development-democratically-97977#.X1dvW95RUX8

Last week I helped to launch the United Nations Development Programme @UNDP’s annual innovation event #IID2021, using an #ExperientialFutures process and format created for the occasion. In January I