Retirement, replacement or rejuvenation?
Michael Edwards | March 13, 2025The NGO community agrees that the foreign aid frame is no longer a viable option, even if that means that NGOs have to evolve into something else. The question is, should today’s NGO by retired, replaced or rejuvenated?
▶Development INGOs
Michael Edwards | 05 December 2024What is the right thing to do when you reach sixty? This is a question that many NGOs, which were founded in the burst of internationalism that followed the end of World War II, are asking themselves today as they reach late middle age. Oxfam cele...
▶Welcome to the dance?
Michael Edwards | 22 September 2024Ok, I admit it – I have little interest in the Millennium Development Goals, despite working in the development arena since 1978. Do I need medical or psychological help? Is there something seriously wrong with me? Don’t I have a heart? Picture me...
▶Michael Edwards
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Michael Edwards is a distinguished senior fellow at Demos in New York and an honorary senior fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at Manchester University. He is a regular commentator on NGOs and international development. His latest book is 'Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World' (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010).





