IDIA Equity and Inclusion Taskforce Reading List: Intersectionality
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: Being Black Working In a White Male-dominated Aid Industry by Rosebell Kagumire (2018) | Find it here
In this article, Rosebell Kaguimire shares her own experiences as a Black African woman working in international development. She writes that her piece aims to encourage more African women to speak up and those in the leadership echelons of development organisations to begin to reflect on aligning externally held values with how they enact them individually and collectively.
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PODCAST: Intersectionality Matters! by Kimberlé Crenshaw (2021) | Find it here
In this podcast American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw attempts to explicate and illuminate the oft-misunderstood concept of intersectionality with a host of incredible guests.
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ACTION: Ten Tips for Putting Intersectionality into Practice (2017) | Find it here
Ten tips for putting intersectionality into practice to promote opportunity for individuals and communities who face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. Suitable for all those who are interested in and committed to incorporating an intersectional approach in their work.
