(Re)construction | Change Aid (J. del Rosario-Malonzo, B. Adams & J. Rosario Braganza)
Channel: medico international
Date: 2021-04-01

Change Aid – reflect unequal power structures

Does aid have a stabilizing effect on our world order with its systemic risks? Is aid merely an expression of a global inability to implement the changes necessary for systemic transformation?

Discussants:
Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo (Activist, IBON international, Quezon City)
Barbara Adams (Policy adviser, Global Policy Forum, New York City)
Jason Rosario Braganza (Economist, AFRODAD, Nairobi)

Facilitator: Elisabeth Bollrich (Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin)

Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo is a development worker, writer, editor and social activist, working with civil society, people’s organizations and networks for over two decades now. She is the Executive Director of IBON International, a Southern international non-government organization that engages in capacity development for people’s rights and democracy around the world. She is also a former Global Coordinator of the Reality of Aid Network. She has been working extensively on issues of development finance, particularly development cooperation including South-South Cooperation, debt, and sustainable development financing, using the lens of a human rights-based approach to development.

Barbara Adams is Chair of the Board of Global Policy Forum. She was trained as an economist in the UK, worked as Executive Director of the Manitoba Council for International Affairs in Canada and has undertaken development programming in Uruguay. From 2003–2008 she worked for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Her experience has included serving as a member of the President of UN General Assembly CSO taskforce for MDG 2010 Summit and the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives, which has released its report, No future without justice, in the Development Dialogue series. Barbara Adams has authored and co-authored many articles, reports, commissioned studies and books on the UN and multilateral issues.

Jason Rosario Braganza is a Kenyan Economist with over ten years experience working on international development in Africa. Over the past decade, Jason has focused his work on trade and regional integration; finance for development and tax; illicit financial flows and domestic resource mobilisation as well as poverty and inequality. As a distinguished expert on tax justice he has worked for and with various African NGO’s and networks. Since October 2020 Jason serves as Executive Director of African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD). He lives in Nairobi.

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The (Re)Construction of the World. Aid. Solidarity. Politics.

A conference not only on the miserable state of the world, but also and above all on the possibilities of its reconstruction into a place that will finally be worth inhabiting. In lectures and forums, the aim is to determine the relationship between aid, solidarity and politics from the promise we made to ourselves in the Declaration of Human Rights: The promise of a global and social order in which the rights granted to us all would be fully realized.

The online conference (February 12th until February 14th, 2021) was organized by medico international e. V. in cooperation with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, International Institute of Political Murder and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

www.medico.de/en/reconstruction