InterAction NGO Futures Digest: March 30, 2022
InterAction’s NGO Futures initiative accelerates NGOs’ ability to adapt, evolve, and affect sustainable change through offerings, including Futures Digest. Nominate content to NGO Futures program director Deborah Willig. Collaboration encouraged.
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The systems change initiative RINGO Project (Reimagining the INGO) showcases how some sector organizations are doing things differently. They share research, resources, and practical tools around major areas of sector change, including:
- Localization
- Decolonizing aid
- Business operating models
- Funding and finance
- South-south and north-south partnerships
- Technology and innovation
- Leadership and diversity
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2022 assessment report estimates that climate change will drive 32 to 132 million more people into extreme poverty in the next decade. With just 1.5 degrees C of global warming, by 2030, an additional 350 million people will experience water scarcity. If it exceeds 1.5 degrees C, storms will be stronger and heatwaves and droughts longer. The report highlights Climate Resilient Development adaptation and mitigation. For example, urban growth provides an opportunity for widespread and transformational adaptation through planning, design, and maintenance of settlements and key infrastructure. Also! Check out humanitarian insights via cartoons that highlight the urgency of climate change.
Freedom House reports sixteen years of democratic decline in its recent report, The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule. They note:
- Authoritarian rulers have captured countries in every region of the world.
- China, Russia, and other dictatorships have succeeded in shifting global incentives.
- A bold, sustained response is needed by governments and citizenry alike to support democracy and counter authoritarianism.
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At times, NGOs and their leaders can lose sight of a simple truth about systems: They are made up of people. Collective Change Lab shares tips to open systems-transforming innovation:
- When facilitating collective impact, build genuine empathy and compassion, allowing authentic connections.
- Felt trauma remains in the present and impedes future progress. Cultivate healing spaces.
- As an actor within the system, change must begin from within.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Youth Advisory Board tips on integrating youth perspective into policies:
- Increase engagement opportunities and reduce barriers through skill-building and providing pay.
- Close the digital divide among youth.
- Reimagine cities to invigorate public life.
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How to Change Everything Sprint
May 2-June 20, 2022
This is an 8-week program to build the skills, strategies, tools, and practices for these extraordinary times. The NGO sector’s current reality is complex and rapidly changing. Zander Grashow, adaptive change expert and frequent collaborator for InterAction member organization CEO programming, shares the adaptive change tools, practices, and strategies needed to build the skillsets for rapidly changing times. This 8-week sprint is for you if you know you can be an even more influential leader. Sign-up here to learn more and share this opportunity with your teams. Email rachel@goodwolfgroup.com with any questions. Launches May 2. 50%+ discount for InterAction member organizations.
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