Shifting Power in Aid

These criticisms have rightly spurred a re-evaluation of how the development and humanitarian sector works, and crystalised a desire to move beyond the aid architecture that emerged in the post-independence period in Asia and Africa, to one that is actively shaped by decision makers in the global South. [...] This came to the fore in 2015, when CAFOD, Christian Aid, DanChurchAid and the East African NGO Adeso launched the Charter for Change, pledging to implement eight critical commitments to reform our practices and progress the power shifts required in areas from advocacy to funding to recruitment. [...] Building on the momentum of Charter for Change, a year later in 2016 at the World Humanitarian Summit, large donors and humanitarian organisations created the Grand Bargain, a unique initiative to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian action, ‘in order to Shifting Power in Aid: How Christian Aid is contributing to locally led development 6 get more means into the hands of people. [...] Shifting Power in Aid: How Christian Aid is contributing to locally led development 8 • We are reviewing our evaluation policy to give greater weight to community voices and indigenous ways of knowing, and to focus more on what partners and communities want to learn from the process. [...] With authentic storytelling a key pillar of the Pledge for Change and other frameworks, we have also developed policies and guidance to help us be more mindful about telling stories from the perspective of partners and communities: • Our new communications strategy and content plans draw on our commitments to anti-racist and decolonised communications.