Newsletter: Issue No.2_April 2025
In this edition of the LPFDev newsletter we’ll bring you insightful articles, exciting opportunities, upcoming events, and valuable resources, and initiatives driving change in the sector.
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LPFDev Initiatives
Ethical Volunteering Workshop - June 2025
🌍 Exciting news! We’re hosting FREE Ethical Volunteering Workshops on the White Savior Complex and Volunteering Abroad! Sign up now! https://forms.gle/Jh4yUMiQ1etiURDy8
Decolonisation Resource Database
🌍 Looking to deepen your understanding of ethical, anti-racist, and decolonial approaches in global development? Our Resource Database is your go-to hub.
Curated monthly, the database features:
📘 Toolkits on decolonial development & ethical volunteering
🎥 Videos and podcasts amplifying Global South voices
🧠 Academic research and reflective zines
🛠️ Practical frameworks for dismantling the white savior complex
Whether you're a practitioner, student, or volunteer, these resources support critical reflection and transformative action.
👉Explore the Database
💡 Have a resource to share? We welcome community contributions!
LPFDev Resource Corner
📝Article: Bridging social divides: how can decolonising knowledge help?
✍🏾Blogs: Aid as reparations is misplaced and harmful
📚Books: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
🛠️Toolkit: Decolonisation of development cooperation
📢 To see more resources, check out our Resource Database
📢 To see more resources, check out our Resource Database
Featured
INITIATIVES
Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa are launching the Correct the Map campaign to put an end to this enduring falsehood. The Correct the Map campaign is calling on international organizations—including the UN, World Bank, and BBC—to switch to the Equal Earth map projection, a fairer and more accurate representation of global geography.
Through a global petition and campaign charter, the initiative invites institutions, educators, and media platforms to pledge their commitment to using maps that depict Africa’s true size.
JOBS & VOLUNTEERING
→Jobs
Systemic Justice Roster - Europe | Remote | Ongoing
Administrative, Finance, and Logistics Officer - African Futures Lab | 🌍Nairobi, Kenya | 4 May 2025
→Executive Director - Systemic Justice | 🌍Europe | €85,000 to €100,000 | 5 May 2025
→Consultancy
Communication Agency: Request for Proposal to recruit a communication agency to support Phase 2 of the hashtag#AfricanVoicesofScience (AVoS) initiative. - Speak Up Africa | 20 April 2025
Consultant to Conduct Research on How Underinvestment in Women-Rights Organizations Fuels Conflict, Instability, and the Systematic Impoverishment of Women in the Horn of Africa - SIHA Network | 🌍Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda and Somali Region | 25 April 2025
FUNDING & GRANTS
Work Reimagined StoryLab is looking for journalists, podcasters, and content creators | Africa No Filter | 30 April 2025
EVENTS
Black Lives Matter UK Festival: 19 July 2025- Black Lives Matter UK is preparing for our second Festival of Collective Liberation on Saturday 19th July. You can watch a video and read about last year’s festival here.
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
Tackling inequality & oppression: Social Justice Collective - Move beyond EDI and towards anti-oppression in these facilitated and self led learning programmes to build an understanding of systems of oppression and privilege, to analyse how power operates in your organisation, and to set tangible commitments towards creating social justice.
ORGANISATION TO FOLLOW
PopWorks Africa: A group of consultants defining decolonization, intersectionality, and anti-racism with iNGOs and philanthropic institutions.
NEWS
→Decolonisation: How Nigeria can claim place on global stage — Obasanjo - Vanguard
→The Day Rhodes Fell: Ten Years After - ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy)
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