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What Happened to Resourcefulness?

Too often there's a narrative that people are operating in deficiency. But in fact, they are demonstrating resourcefulness

Isabelle Clérié
Repairing Development • Issue 4 What Happened to Resourcefulness?Repairing Development • Issue 4 What Happened to Resourcefulness?
Repairing Development • Issue 3 Shiny Resumes, Stale Ideas

To development practitioners – please actively unlearn what you think you know about the Global Majority

Isabelle Clérié
Repairing Development • Issue 3 Shiny Resumes, Stale IdeasRepairing Development • Issue 3 Shiny Resumes, Stale Ideas
We Need More Anthropologists in Development

As we talk about community-led anything, there is an urgency to build anthropological skill sets like participant observation and thick description

Isabelle Clérié
Repairing Development • Issue 2 We Need More Anthropologists in DevelopmentRepairing Development • Issue 2 We Need More Anthropologists in Development
USAID’s Freeze and the Future of Aid

Welcome to a new newsletter for Proximate, where I reflect on the possibilities for a world without traditional international aid.

Isabelle Clérié
Repairing Development • Issue 1 USAID’s Freeze and the Future of AidRepairing Development • Issue 1 USAID’s Freeze and the Future of Aid
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