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Placing the future of ‘Partnerships’ in the best hands
A new dawn for partnerships – Bangkok, March 2023 Last week I co-facilitated a training course for UNESCAP (the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) at the UN headquarters in Bangkok. This is noteworthy (and the cause of my first post here since May last year) largely because it represents only… Read more
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Precious moments
In a recent, albeit fruitless, effort to ween myself off social media, I was struck by a quote that runs along the lines of: “live a pleasant life, and support other people to find the same…if you don’t find a way of reducing the suffering of your surrounding, your suffering won’t stop.” With a suitable… Read more
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Respectfully human
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” (John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States) Whilst many conflicts rage on around the world, the current invasion of Ukraine by Russia has repercussions on a seismic scale. The ominous sequencing and nature of… Read more
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Water Tiger time
I’ll push off at dawn tomorrow on my bike, and carve down towards the coast. A new route, snaking through swampland and through rivulet shards, broken off from the Mekong River. Countdown to midnight on December 31st is well underway over here. Stranded in Vietnam for another Christmas, another long drawn out year of waiting.… Read more
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Identifying for Good
Over the last twenty years I’ve had no reason to doubt my career choices. It felt very comfortable, reassuring and affirming to decide to work in the non-profit sector in 2000, having come out of brief dalliances in both the public and private spheres, and that hasn’t changed since. For each new organisation with whom… Read more
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Where praise is due
The crowds always warm to the underdog, it seems. Novak Djokovic, losing the US Open final on Sunday, has won over many of those who’ve mocked his countless victories. At least that’s what Jonathan Liew from The Guardian believes. I’m not sure it matters if Jonathan Liew is right or wrong (these days, truth is… Read more
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Human System Failure
“It could be that there is something incompatible between us and our needs and our desires and our nature, and the idea of a human system that can guarantee everything, that can control everything, that can know everything, and that can control and know and run everybody.” Christopher Hitchens, (Commonwealth Club of California lecture, 2014.)… Read more
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Quality over quantity: taking a new approach to partnering
The adage about “quality over quantity” is, perhaps, a useful moniker to attach to the behaviour of much of what has defined the last 30 years of Western society. If only more people invested less on satisfying their own need to consume and amass money. I remember Oxfam’s hard hitting inequality campaign about the 85… Read more
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Chopping the UK aid budget
I wrote over 8 years ago in support of George Osborne and his measures to improve transparency over corporate tax, and at the time the UK Government’s continued commitment to spend 0.7% of its gross domestic income (GDI) on overseas aid and development. Some of the details about how the UK Government has performed against… Read more
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Gender Equality and the role of business
For the past eighteen months, Coracle Consulting has taken on several client assignments, respectively seeking to tackle a common goal: how to best engage the Private Sector on the subject of Gender Equality? Tackling outlandishly sized issues, such as the emancipation of women and girls, can be an equally daunting as well as inspiring proposition.… Read more
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