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The international development sector is experiencing unprecedented turmoil after the USAID stop-work order in January 2025, causing significant consequences for local civil society in the Global South.
These decisions are already causing significant damage to development and humanitarian work globally. Hundreds of humanitarian and aid projects have been forced to close in many countries, with serious consequences for millions of people.
The majority of collective responses have been reactive, shaped by the Global North, and focused on preserving the sector in its typical form. In contrast, Global South individuals and networks affected by these cuts increasingly recognise this as an opportunity to reshape the sector, and to depart from the longstanding power imbalances that dominate it.
Peace Direct invites local activists, changemakers, organizers, healers, and peacebuilders to a two-day conversation on the ‘Future of Global North-Global South cooperation in a post-aid world’.
Using Platform4Dialogue, our global discussion and consultation platform, we will hold a two-day consultation on 3rd – 4th September 2025 to capture the unprecedented nature of these circumstances and to identify the future of Global South-Global North cooperation. We ask: in a newly reimagined system, where ‘aid’ is no longer central, what does this future look like?
