MPs on the International Development Committee have called on the development aid sector to recognise and tackle racism in its practices. In a report published recently, the Committee called on the sector to address various issues, including: pay scales that can see UK aid staff paid ten times as much as ‘local’ counterparts; fundraising publicity that portrays aid recipients as helpless and in need of ‘saving’; and staffing that is not as diverse as it should be, especially at leadership levels.The report, Racism in the aid sector, said the very…
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