Thinking and working politically: What have we learned since 2013? – FP2P

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Thinking and working politically: What have we learned since 2013? – FP2P
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It’s always a red letter day when a new paper from Graham Teskey drops. His most recent is Thinking and working politically: What have we learned since 2013? For those that don’t know him, Graham is a consummate insider-outsider within the aid sector – long stints at DFID (UK), DFAT (Australia) and now Abt (Management Consultants). From this vantage point he has been one of the leading proponents of ‘thinking and working politically’, always ready to call out the hand-wavey academics and demand some practical lessons, please. This paper is part biography of an idea, setting out the timeline, moments and key documents and policy wins in the evolution of TWP (which seems to have involved a lot of seminars that I missed due to Oxfam’s meagre travel budget). The other part is, to be honest, a bit of a lament – a study in ‘Why Change Hasn’t Happened’, because TWP has ‘got lost in the maelstrom’ of the wider, largely negative, changes in the aid sector. Overall, it’s a brilliant summary, and one I’ll be recommending to my increasingly long-suffering activism students….
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From Poverty to Power
Date
2022-02-01
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01/02/2022, 11:37
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Green, D. (2022, February 1). Thinking and working politically: What have we learned since 2013? – FP2P. From Poverty to Power. https://oxfamapps.org/fp2p/thinking-and-working-politically-what-have-we-learned-since-2013/