IDIA Equity and Inclusion Taskforce Reading List: A 'Watershed Moment'?
IDIA created Operational Taskforces under their 2020-2022 strategy in response to agencies increasingly focusing their efforts on internal, operational innovation and creating the right kind of agile, institutional environment that will enable them to be effective and efficient partners to others in the innovation ecosystem. The first Operational Taskforce launched focused on Equity and Inclusion where agencies examined and addressed diversity and equity within organisational objectives and workplace policies. Increasingly, these calls have expanded to include becoming actively anti-racist and inclusionary. For those committed to the work of development, these calls amplify the imperative felt while navigating the legacy and day-to-day work of addressing power imbalances and market systems that fail the most marginalised.
The Equity and Inclusion Taskforce was co-chaired by Kedest Tesfagiorgis (The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and Kippy Joseph (The Global Innovation Fund) and the five exploratory sessions were co-facilitated by consultants Dr. Althea-Maria Rivas (SOAS, University of London) and Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou (Overseas Development Institute). Throughout the sessions the Taskforce consultants identified opportunities for asynchonous learning in the form of Weekly Reading Lists that focused on topics needing to be unpacked further within the group.
This blog series shares the four themed Reading Lists which address 1. The Power of Langugage, 2. Decolonising Development, 3. Intersectionality, and 4. A Watershed Moment. Each themed reading list includes three resources for those who have just a few moments to engae, those with a few minutes and those who have more.
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ARTICLE: A World in Which Many Worlds Fit by Aarathi Krishnan, Rahul Chandran (2020) | Find it here
In this article, authors ask; in our dreams for a post-COVID world, what should we demand of our international relations and international public good institutions? What does it mean to de-colonise and transform development and humanitarian enterprise so that it is anti-racist within and without?
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INTERVIEW: A conversation with Angela Bruce-Raeburn on racism in global development (2020) | Find it here
Regional advocacy director for Africa with the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, Angela Bruce-Raeburn speaks about racism in the global development sector and comments on whether 2020 really was a 'watershed moment' for the sector.
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REPORT: Racism, racial discrimination and the right to development by The Human Rights Council (2021) | Find it here
This study examines racism and racial discrimination as barriers to the operationalisation of the right to development and analyses the obstacles that racism and racial discrimination pose to international cooperation and global partnerships.
