In focus: International non-governmental organisations pledge to shift power and resources

Abstract

The international aid system has long functioned as a hierarchy dominated by the Global North. Urgent reform is needed to acknowledge and address inherent paternalism and racism, build equitable partnerships, and work for transformative change. International non-governmental organisations also must change, as recognised by the signatories to the Pledge for Change. Plan International, Oxfam GB and other Global North organisations worked with Adeso, the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership and other civil society actors in the Global South to start shifting more power, decision making and money to the people and places affected by crisis and poverty. Some progress is already evident but including others in the traditional aid hierarchy is necessary to foster wider change and make good on their unfulfilled Grand Bargain promises around localisation.

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