Brokering Equitable Partnerships (cross-cutting)

Partnership brokering runs through all our work. We name power imbalances early, co-create ways of working, and shift resources and decision-making to locally-led actors — meeting each partnership where it sits on the continuum from transactional to transformative (Social Development Direct & Plan International UK, 2023).

1. Insights & Evidence Generation

We generate community-centred evidence on mutual aid and diaspora humanitarian action through participatory, decolonial research — from context analysis and impact evaluation to political economy and annual diaspora assessments. Community partners are co-researchers. We honour oral histories, publish in multiple languages, and apply data sovereignty principles throughout.

2. Strategic Advisory

For community organisations and diaspora networks: organisational development, crisis response, partnership facilitation, resource mobilisation beyond traditional donors, and community-accountable governance.

For institutional clients: decolonisation and localisation strategy, power analysis and culture change, equity audits, and guidance on reconciling compliance with community-led approaches.

We reject deficit narratives and support community organisations to set boundaries that protect their autonomy.

3. Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Exchange

Community programmes: values-led leadership, resource mobilisation, peer learning, digital security and data sovereignty, and narrative power building.

Institutional programmes: decolonisation training, partnership brokering skills, power-aware programme design, and community-led monitoring and evaluation.

Knowledge exchange: an annual mutual aid and diaspora humanitarian action summit, South–South exchanges, a brokers’ community of practice, and a multilingual digital knowledge hub.

Learning is reciprocal. Communities hold expertise, and co-design every programme with us.