I saw this on LinkedIn. This is advice /mentoring to ex USAID staff who are now without jobs and, how to position themselves for the corporate sector.
This is the most honest self explaining manual on how corporate and self serving the aid /development complex is.
What's the problem with this? The Americans call the aid sector 'non profit' and, the British call NGOs 'charities'. These are inheritors of colonialism - they have a hierarchical colonial relationship with the Global South. Nevertheless, NGOs and the UN need to have a distinctly non corporate structure and, dynamics. But, the truth is that increasingly NGOs have become corporatised. So has the UN. Their funding comes from the corporate sector too, not just Western governments. As such, they whole outlook is corporate and, they have incorporated both business language but also appropriated political movements' language, feminism, leadership, etc. And, what's more, profitable companies are now embedded in this ecosystem of International Development. British and American.
What's the problem with this? The Americans call the aid sector 'non profit' and, the British call NGOs 'charities'. These are inheritors of colonialism - they have a hierarchical colonial relationship with the Global South. Nevertheless, NGOs and the UN need to have a distinctly non corporate structure and, dynamics. But, the truth is that increasingly NGOs have become corporatised. So has the UN. Their funding comes from the corporate sector too, not just Western governments. As such, they whole outlook is corporate and, they have incorporated both business language but also appropriated political movements' language, feminism, leadership, etc. And, what's more, profitable companies are now embedded in this ecosystem of International Development. British and American.
It's a pretty rotten system.
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