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The Change the Game Academy and Disrupt Development present you with stories of the brave who dare to change the game of funding development. In this brand-new Daring to Change the Game podcast series, you’ll hear the experiences from changemakers and donors from Kenya, Nepal and Brazil, where organizations are finding creative and entrepreneurial ways to source their funding locally and transcend the toxic dependency on western donors. In this episode, Claudia Fix dives into a new model of consultancy for local fundraising in Latin America.

This three-part podcast series is a stepping stone towards an event where we shall dive deeper into the topic and unpack the highs, lows, and lessons from the practice of domestic resource mobilisation as a vehicle for sustainable development.

Claudia Fix has been working in international cooperation and development since 2002 both in Germany and Latin America. She is currently coordinating fundraising consultancy support in Latin America for Misereor. Hear her story on how she has pioneered new ways of fundraising and designed and implemented a successful model of consultancy for local organisations within the INGO she works for. Together with the Change the Game Academy she is now on a mission to extend local resource mobilization models to other grassroots organisations, so they can become less dependent on international donors and thus more sustainable.

Music credit: Warped Mind on Hooksounds

Despite various strides made by the global development sector in reforming its communication, humanitarian campaigns still (too) often contain racial stereotypes, dehumanizing images and colonial narratives. In our Beyond Poverty Porn series, which we make together with Emiel Martens and Wouter Oomen from the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (HuCom), we open up the conversation about ethical, respectful, and inclusive communication in and on global development.

In short episodes of about 15 minutes each, Martens and Oomen will take a critical look at trending genres within the field of humanitarian communication. Following their critique on celebrity humanitarianism in the previous storycast, in this episode they zoom in on the popular genre of the individual changemaker. While they see the value of the shift in agency that changemaker stories seem to represent, they do find several issues with the 'individual solutions to structural problems' habit of these campaigns.

We live in volatile, uncertain, and complex times. So, how do we navigate an age of uncertainty and complexity in global development? In this series, we explore the Future of Partos - the Dutch Development Cooperation Association that brings together nearly 110 Dutch Development NGOs.

In this final podcast episode Bart Romijn and Merel van der Woude reflect on the Partos Future Exploration and share their main insights. What has Partos learned from the Future Exploration, what topics have received priority and how will the outcomes benefit Dutch Development Cooperation?

Bart Romijn is the director of Partos. Merel van der Woude is creative director at Butterfly Works, the social design studio that facilitated the Partos Future Exploration.