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International aid

What you need to know about foreign aid (and why we need to protect it)

2 Joe Cerrell 4 January 2013

These past weeks, the international conversation about aid to developing countries has been heating up. Does Britain’s decision to cut foreign aid to India foretell a shift in the relationship between traditional donor countries and middle-income …


Collaborating internationally to empower Indian women

Alison Bukhari and Dasra 31 July 2012

As a philanthropy advisor in the UK with a focus on India, I have had a difficult year listening to the growing opinion that we should scale back our philanthropic funding to a country with …


Should India be receiving aid as well as giving?

Dasra 31 August 2011

In many meetings recently I have gained a lot of traction when I have explained Dasra’s strategy of building local philanthropy in India.  There is a real appetite for foundations and philanthropists to support, at …