Has anything changed?
   Today marks three years since George Floyd was killed by police
   officers in Minnesota, United States, propelling the Black Lives Matter
   movement. It also sparked a racial reckoning that extended to the world
   of development, which has always had fraught power dynamics between
   donors and the people they’re “helping,” especially in light of the
   move to shift power from big international players to local
   organizations on the ground.
   “I’m hopeful because the racial reckoning launched by the murder of
   George Floyd was not just a passing moment; conversations on racial
   justice and what it means in int’l development continue to be
   meaningful and robust,” Paul Weisenfeld, executive vice president of
   international development at RTI International, tells us via email.
   “At the same time, we all have to realize that diversifying the
   composition of our organizations, especially at the leadership level,
   has a long way to go,” adds Weisenfeld, who is part of CREED, or the
   Coalition for Racial & Ethnic Equity in Development.
   Indira Kaur Ahluwalia, founder and co-chair of CREED, said the
   organization understands “the need to take collective responsibility to
   build racial and ethnic equity (REE) to address gaps that could no
   longer be invisible under our watch.”
   “While we had a terrible moment three years ago that sparked
   motivation, the sustainability of the REE movement is fundamental to
   our organizations’ morale and effectiveness, our programmatic
   efficacies, our locally led development goals, and social and economic
   progress,” she writes to us.
   At Devex, we’ve spent these last three years covering efforts to
   decolonize aid and diversify the sector, so I picked out a selection of
   articles that you might find interesting.
   Racism ‘entrenched’ in development institutions, UNAIDS chief says
   Has WFP failed to tackle racism in its ranks? Some employees say yes
   USAID’s first diversity chief aims to make the agency more inclusive 
   How ClimateWorks centers equity in its philanthropy 
   What Wellcome Trust’s anti-racism struggles reveal about DEI efforts
   Deep dive: Decolonizing aid — from rhetoric to action
   Opinion: Decolonizing development is key to avoid path to irrelevance
   Opinion: Why the Black Lives Matter movement should have us rethinking
   humanitarian aid