Following a consultation to replace the damaging and neo-colonial language of “aid” run across thirteen countries by the Track Changing group of the Kampala Initiative, our organizations all pledge to replace the word “aid” with “Global Redistribution” or one of four alternatives (Global Solidarity; Global Equalization; Global Equity Gap; Global Collaboration).*
Whilst we recognise that we occasionally need to use the term “aid” to describe the current status quo, we commit to replacing it, wherever possible to better represent the relationship between the Minority and Majority worlds and more accurately describe the causes of poverty.
Hamimu Masudi, Co – Chair of the Track Changing Group of the Kampala Initiative said: “Like Nelson Mandela taught us, “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Poverty and inequality are a result of historical legacies and a defective global economic order that uses its unfair rules to prey on and rig the Majority world out of the global economy. When used widely at all levels alternative names such as, ‘Global Redistribution’ has the potential to direct attention towards structural causes of poverty that the aid language undermines.”
Igbine Lizzy Nneka, campaigner and member of Track Changing Initiative said: “It’s time to call a spade a spade. We want to see a new narrative that tells the truth about poverty, inequality and poor health, that rebalances power, overcomes racist and colonially rooted stereotypes and that encourages people to take action worldwide in solidarity with one another”
We invite all organisations and individuals who communicate about international issues to join us and pledge to use the alternative words in their communications.
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*The words “fund” or “finance” or “budget” can be attached at the end as appropriate.
Signatories (07/04/22)
Organizations
1 Innovations for Development (I4DEV), Uganda
2 LiveWell Initiative LWI Academy, Nigeria
3 Aid Aid Accountability Consortium, Sierra Leone
4 Viva Salud, Belgium
5 Wemos, The Netherlands
6 Health Poverty Action, UK
7 Find Your Feet, UK
8 Peace Foundation, Pakistan
9 Public Health International consulting Center (PHICC), Cameroon
10 Human Rights Research Documentation Center (HURIC), Uganda
11 People’s Health Movement, Uganda Chapter
12 Ukana West 2 Community Based Health Initaitive (CBHI), Nigeria
13 Resultats Canada groupe Québec City, Canada
14 Nigerian Women Agro Allied Farmers Association, Nigeria
15 PHM Scotland, UK
16 Connected Advocacy, Nigeria
17 Union des Amis Socio Culturels d’Action en Developpement (UNASCAD), Haiti
18 Wote Youth Development Projects, Kenya
19 Herwa Community Development Initiative, Nigeria
20 Global Baptist mission, Nigeria
21 Hub Cymru Africa, Wales
22 Picture Impact, USA
23 Pemuda Tata Ruang, Indonesia
24 Fields of Green for ALL NPC, South Africa
25 Caritas Nyundo, Rwanda
26 Salem Health Project, UK
27 Share The World’s Resources, UK
28 Harm Reduction International, UK
29 Jubilee Debt Campaign
30 Students for Global Health UK
31 Abibinsroma Foundation, Ghana
32 Youth Partnership for Peace and Development, Sierra Leone
33 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Network, Sierra Leone
34 Simavi, Netherlands
Individual global solidarity practitioners
Professor Adenike Grange, United States
Adrian Schlegel, Germany
Joan Okitoi-Heisig, Schweiz
Frederik Federspiel, Denmark
Giulietta Luul Balestra, Italy
Wim Vandevelde, South Africa
Anakkale, Turkey
Susan Titherley, UK
Martin Drewry, UK
Pamela Blakelock, UK
Sara Emanuel, UK
Lisa Rollisson, UK
Eden Fekade, UK
Pam Wortley, UK
Mushtaq Karimjee, UK
Judith Swain, UK
Francis O’Leary, UK
Kanisha Neal, USA
Zin Minn Oo, Myanmar
Peter Ngola Owiti, Kenya
Alec frank, UK
Michel Mankou, UK
Lakshmi Menon, India
Danny Davito Gotto, Uganda
Edward Staples, Canada
James Douglas Kay Finlayson, UK
Simon Heisig, Schweiz
Adrian Faiers, UK
Liteboho Nchoba, Lesotho
Monica Ravasio, Italy
Siaffa Bunduka, UK
Inbar Yaffe, Isreal
Henk-J Land, Netherlands
Mike Wheeler, UK
Anthony Boardman, UK
Rosie Buckland, UK
elisabeth june huws, Wales, UK
Shalini Soni, UK
Warren M. Gold, USA
Gjori Langeland, UK
Rachel Paton, UK
Helen Brock, UK
David Hope, UK
Jean Dodgeon, UK
Rachel Allen, UK
Juana Blyden Bhonopha, Sierra Leone
Miss Meena Baid, UK
John McClean, UK
Katie Sapphire-Star, UK
Lindsay Hope Kern, Northern Ireland, UK
Jo West, UK
Rosey Ellum, UK
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, UK
Stephen O’Neale, UK
Alan Schamroth, UK
James Okinyi OYUNGU, Kenya
Dhanraji Ramlakhan, Trinidad and Tobago
Irene Pearce, UK
Diana Englefield Forrest, UK
Ayesha Mayhew, UK
Jean Read, UK
Lesley Probert, UK
Layla Haidrani, UK
Salma Haidrani, UK
Mandy Kokani, UK
Alise Abadie, USA
Rosie Marie Martin, Wales
Kate Crichton, UK
Kenneth Amoateng, Ghana
Katy Cunningham, UK
Aaron Palmer, UK
Lucca-Jay Dibbern, UK
Alice Bradley, Scotland
Allison Anderson Boyd, UK
Samuel Walton, England
