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Claiming Agency. Reflecting on TrustAfrica's First Decade takes an in-depth look at an African-led foundation that set out to do things differently. Founded in 2006, when solutions to Africa's challenges were often developed outside its borders, TrustAfrica sought to practice a kind of philanthropy that both benefits Africans and actively supports their agency. Now, at the ten-year mark, the book asks, what does this kind of philanthropy make a difference? If so, how? What are its unique ways of working? The answers are found in chapters that reflect on how TrustAfrica and its partners advanced a range of issues - from women's rights, small-holder agriculture, and democratic reform in Liberia and Zimbabwe to international criminal justice and illicit financial flows. In a clear-eyed look at money and power, the authors observe that donor funds all too often come with strings that constrict African agency - and recommend ways in which donors from Africa and the global north can foster independent action and strengthen movements for change.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Claiming Agency
• Subtitle: Reflecting on TrustAfrica's First Decade
• Author: Elizabeth Coleman, Halima Mahomed
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156
• EAN: 9781779223012
• ISBN: 1779223013
• ID: 15188455
• Publisher: Weaver Press
• Weight: 218 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. October 2016

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