What are some of the challenges that researchers from the Global South face when engaging in development research initiatives, and how can resetting the relationships that underpin North-South collaborations help? What are the pivotal areas where change is needed?
This synthesis paper brings together perspectives from across the Global South and North to explore the complexities and challenges of promoting equity in research. Findings reveal that while actors in the Global North—particularly research for development funders—most often focus on reshaping research partnerships and advancing equity as an end goal in itself, those in the Global South view equity as integral to broader systemic transformations within the development knowledge ecosystem.
The pandemic has affected the distribution, use and oversight of power determining people’s well-being.
How can INGOs adapt to a more equitable development system? For sure this will require a proactive shift in power relations.
The objective of this analysis is to explore the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 and how it is affecting the Global South.
The 2030 Agenda has successfully set a normative framework for global cooperation. Yet, the implementation of this agenda is characterised by power struggles and unresolved contestations.
At Southern Voice, we have been discussing internally ways in which we can engage our network to get a broad range of insights on the crisis from across the Global South.
Originally published by On Think Tanks As the Think Tank Initiative ends, Andrea Ordonez was invited to give the keynote [...]
Originally posted on "on think tanks" August 29, 2013 [Editor's note: This is the second of a series of [...]
Originally published on Development Progress September 2013 Andrea Ordóñez is Research Coordinator for the Southern Voice initiative. Although discussing how to [...]
