My Experience

Tackling Black Carbon: How to Unlock Fast Climate and Clean Air Benefits - March 2025, Clean Air Fund - Co-authored in partnership with the Advocacy Team and CSTEP

Funding Freedom: Models, Stories and Strategies for Making Flexible Funding Work - Forthcoming April 2026, Peace Direct - Co-authored with Rachel Sittoni

I have delivered over 45 projects for a wide range of organisations in the international 'development' and social change sectors since 2018. These include the following:

The Advocacy Team, Clean Air Fund, The Climate Coalition in partnership with Hyphen Poetry, King’s College London, LEGO in partnership with The Outcome Gap, Agulhas Applied Knowledge, Independent Commission for Aid Impact, Peace Direct, Healing Solidarity, Global Fund for Community Foundations, Rights CoLab, Asal Consulting, UK Department for International Development, US Agency for International Development, Swiss Development Cooperation and Faith in Leadership.

In 2019, I co-founded The Equity Index with Lorriann Robinson. We are a UK-based social enterprise advocating for greater equity across the international development sector. The organisation is currently in a Resting Phase - you can learn more on our website, https://theequityindex.org/.

Here is a sample of my publicly available work:

The funder report card: a self-assessment tool for Global North/Global Majority funders - Forthcoming 2026, Peace Direct - Co-authored with Everjoice Win

Too Southern To Be Funded: The Funding Bias Against the Global South - 2024, #ShiftThePower movement - Author

Strategies for Diversity Smart Investing: for Investment Managers and Institutions - 2024, Co-authored in partnership with ICE and DIMA, Brazil, for The Equity Index

Are we there yet? Localisation as the journey towards locally led practice - October 2021, ODI Global and 17 Rooms Initiative - Co-authored with Arbie Baguios, Maia King and Rose Pinnington

Participatory Grantmaking - UK Landscape Survey - February 2023, National Lottery Community Fund - Co-authored in partnership with the Advocacy Team

Consultation Report: Constituent accountability for grassroots organisations, movements, activists and other informal civil society actors - July 2022, CIVICUS - Co-authored with Alara Adali

Management of the 0.7% ODA spending target - November 2020, Independent Commission for Aid Impact - Co-authored in partnership with Agulhas Applied Knowledge

The use of UK aid to enhance mutual prosperity - November 2020, Independent Commission for Aid Impact - Co-authored in partnership with Agulhas Applied Knowledge

Pilot project: Key findings, lessons learned & recommendations - June 2021, The Equity Index - Co-authored with Lorriann Robinson, Saagarika Dadu, Areeshya Thevamanohar

Reimagining equity: redressing power imbalances between the global North and the global South - March 2020, Gender & Development Journal - Author

What Transformation Takes: Evidence of Responsible INGO Transitions to Locally Led Development - December 2020, Stopping As Success programme - Co-author and synthesis lead

Bridging the Gap: Research collaboration in fragile and conflict-affected states - July 2015, Knowledge Platform: Security & Rule of Law - Co-authored with Marije Balt, Diane Ware, Sara Habachi and Lula Dahir

“Drawing Lessons from International Intervention in Burundi” in Sharma, S. and Welsh, J. (Eds.) The Responsibility to Prevent: Overcoming the Challenges of Mass Atrocity Prevention, Oxford University Press, January 2015 - Co-authored with Walter Lotze

The Climate Coalition's 2024 Listening Sessions on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: How to make The Climate Coalition more equitable and inclusive - July 2024, Hyphen Poetry - Co-authored with Nikita Shah