Most of the program was participatory where participants explored in break-outs and feed their insights to this webpage. Below is a selection of the panel conversations.

Redefining Power and Partnerships - panel contributions.

Deborah Doane, RightsCoLab and Ringo project. Sakhile Sifelani, Women in Politics Support Unit Zimbabwe. Mai Jarrar, YMCA East Jerusalem. Lena Ingelstam, Secretary General, Diakonia, Saranel Benjamin - Head Of Partnerships, Okfam UK

1:38-8:47 Deborah Doane speaks about Reimagining the INGO and the RINGO Change Lab. There are structural obstacles to change, such as risk aversion and white savourism.

9:22-16:42 Sakhile Sifelani uses the metaphor of a very confusing date. – Why am I as a local NGO even at the table? Are we here to serve? Clear ideology has been substituted by programming and the impopular M&E framweorks. How do we decolonize and feminize this conversation?

16:55-19:35 Discussion with Deborah and Sakhile. Where do we start?

19:37-26:06 Lena Ingelstam gives some honest reflection on why shifting funding is so hard: self-interest, compliance demands and other dilemmas. There is a will, but a gap between policy and practice, we want to be politically correct but this is extremely ambivalent.

26:20-32:09 Mai Jarrar talks about From Local to Global. A truly empowering initiative where design, analyses and response is done by people themselves. The double standards in the aid system mean we are compromising our own values.

32:17-37:08 Discussion with Lena and Mai on whether we are ready for de-growth and letting go of power, on charity and human rights.

(37:08 - 46.07 Only introductions and break-out introductions. No contributor.)

46:47-56:00 Saranel Benjamin wonders if it is easy to say the word ‘decolonisation’ because it is seen as a technical exercise. We need to centre race justice in decolonization and we need a whole framework for change.