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Philanthropy during COVID-19 in Brazil 

Candid

To understand how the pandemic impacted the philanthropic sector and civil society organizations around the world, we reached out to local experts who shared their observations and experiences over the past two years. Brazil’s culture of giving and philanthropy has been growing since the 1980s. billion by the summer of 2020. .

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Local Militias Step into Government Gaps

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, quickly getting on the ground to distribute food, conduct rescue operations, and fundraise, the Oath Keepers showed up in full force in 2017: when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Hurricane Irma hit Florida, and Hurricane Harvey hit Texas.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, another recent study on African conservation funding practices finds that 92 percent of African civil society organizations struggle to access sufficient core funding, 71 percent of them identified short-term project structures as a key barrier, and 52 percent find existing proposal and reporting requirements to be a barrier.

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Debt-for-climate swaps can save the planet. Why aren’t they?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In the simplest terms, a debtor nation will agree to stop making payments to the lender and to, instead, channel that money into local climate projects such as renewable energy or energy efficiency initiatives. Particular efforts should be made to address and assuage the political and logistic concerns of lenders and borrowers.

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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A study on the working conditions in Kenya’s gig economy , for example, was written by two African researchers, who not only surveyed hundreds of gig workers but also involved civil society and policy makers during a multi-stakeholder dialogue and a panel discussion in Nairobi. Create time and resource buffers.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In retrospect, we can see with a borderless threat like COVID-19, collaboration was stymied across and within countries: Lacking clearly defined and owned targets, country responses often failed to meaningfully engage civil society. For example, COVAX’s anchor organizations—Gavi, WHO and UNICEF—fought over turf.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Smallholder farmers produce at least a third of the global food supply. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Though these farms are small, typically under two hectares, their cumulative impact is large.