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USAID is retreating, BRICS is building new financial rails and Europe is repositioning. What does the changing development finance landscape mean for Africa?

Why Rational Organisations Keep Producing Irrational Systems South Africa’s civil society sector is often accused of being fragmented, territorial and too competitive. Fair enough. But put an organisation into a system where funding is scarce, relationships are currency, attribution determines who gets the next grant, collaboration carries risk and survival is never quite guaranteed, and then ask what a rational organisation would do. It will protect relationships, guard info

There is no shortage of money, strategy documents, impact frameworks or good intentions in the development world. What there is a shortage of is coherence. Too often, the research sits in one place, the strategy in another, the money somewhere else, and the implementation team gets handed the consequences. By the time everyone discovers that the policy does not quite fit, the partner is not ready, the funding instrument is wrong or the programme design was based on a bad assu