Episode 6: #ShiftThePower - Communities

Disrupt Development

The call to change the balance of power in development cooperation is getting louder and louder. It is time for more local ownership of the global agenda, everyone seems to agree. There is even a real movement under the hashtag #ShiftThePower. The development community has been talking about this for decades now, but what has changed? In this new Podcast series of Disrupt Development I am going unpack the #ShiftThePower debate with great minds.

In this episode together with Evelijne Bruning we are going to talk about the circus of development cooperation, how development professionals are the accountants of change instead of the driver of change, the power of communities and together we will share tips for organisations who received new funding for programmes.

Evelijne Bruning is executive director of The Hunger Project Netherlands, an organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. Evelijne is also one of the leaders of the The Movement for Community Led Development https://mcld.org/. Please visit this website if you / your organisations wants to become part of this movement.

Before Evelijne joined The Hunger Project, she worked as editor-in-chief of Capacity.org and Vice-Versa - the Dutch trade development magazine - and as microcredit advisor to SNV in Vietnam. Until 2019 she wrote columns for De Dikke Blauwe - the professional journal for philanthropy. Evelijne is a much sought-after chairman and discussion leader in the field of development cooperation, and she is a member of various boards, including World in Progress, Partos and Both Ends. She is a headstrong and unruly thinker, who likes to take a critical look at her own prejudices & assumptions - and those of others. She opposes the image that people in poverty are pathetic. She fights against cynicism and always looks at what is possible.