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The Racial Equity Index needs your help to create the very first community-created Global Index that defines and measures racial equity in the aid and development sector

The Racial Equity Index is building a new set of tools to dismantle global development’s house.

There is a reckoning afoot in the global development sector. Social media has been flooded with testimonies from employees and consultants in the sector who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) bearing witness to the racist treatment they and their colleagues have received. Their words have exposed a sector rife with harmful practices, perpetuated by leaders lacking integrity, and upheld by wilfully obtuse institutional and systemic structures. Continue reading