Aid & Development

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

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

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

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