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World Peace Foundation Executive Director, Alex de Waal speaks with Degan Ali, Executive director of African Development Solutions (ADESO).
“The system has created a very good way of self-perpetuating because you have made the cost of speaking out, the cost of challenging the system, very expensive for people … financially expensive.”
Access “Degan Ali on how Black Lives Matter is also a reckoning for foreign aid and international NGOs” referenced in this podcast on “In Pursuit of Development” with Dan Banik.
Executive Director of Adeso, Degan Ali has more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the humanitarian and development field. Degan is a strong believer in transforming the current aid system to give more power and voice to local communities and civil society organizations. Following this belief, Degan continues to innovate and develop new solutions to build the infrastructure that will truly shift power and resources, including co-founding the Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR).
Alex de Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building.
African Arguments is a pan-African platform for news, investigation and opinion that seeks to analyse issues facing the continent, investigate the stories that matter, and amplify a diversity of voices.
The Institute for Global Leadership is an incubator of innovative ways to educate learners at all levels to understand and engage with difficult global issues. They develop new generations of effective and ethical leaders who are able and driven to comprehend complexity, reflect cultural and political nuance, and engage as responsible global citizens in anticipating and confronting the world’s most pressing problems.
Very interesting to read about Executive Director ADESO . Ms Ali Degan who is interested in issues to do with Development and localisation. Want to learn more from her as I am in the same field of work. So pleased to reconnect with Alex de Vaal since African Rights. How do I connect? hope this message will make it happen.