{"id":5260,"date":"2013-02-05T12:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/intercultural-opening-of-the-development-scene\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:02:29","slug":"intercultural-opening-of-the-development-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glokal.org\/en\/intercultural-opening-of-the-development-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Intercultural opening of the development scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Development policy is one of the most international fields of work. This is why it is often particularly surprising to find that most institutions and non-governmental organizations employ almost exclusively people from the dominant majority society: People from the Global South, Black people and People of Color seem to be more or less structurally excluded.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, several projects and initiatives have been found that have tried to advance the issue of so-called intercultural opening in the development policy scene, primarily in civil society. One of the projects was the &#8220;move glokal\/move global&#8221; project in Hamburg, which ended prematurely. In the meantime, not only an <a title=\"Evaluation of the Move glokal\/Move global project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ewnw.de\/sites\/default\/files\/EX-Post%20Evalutation%20Zusammenfassung%20Juni%202012-1.pdf\">evaluation of the EWNW project<\/a> is online, but also a <a title=\"Counterstatement on the ex post evaluation of Ali Fathi\" href=\"http:\/\/sporen-lobal.blog.de\/2012\/12\/24\/gegendarstellung-ex-post-evaluation-moveglobal-hamburg-15352026\/\">rebuttal by the terminated project manager Dr. Ali Fathi<\/a>. <!--more-->In particular, the important question of what role institutional racism played in the project is discussed. The questions raised are central for all projects dealing with &#8220;intercultural opening&#8221;. In our monitoring of similar processes, we have noticed that the Hamburg model project is not an isolated case: After conflicts about institutional racism in development organizations, white employees usually remain in office, while PoC and black employees are sent out the door.<\/p>\n<p>A helpful set of questions for primarily White organizations is presented by the Western States Center in <a title=\"Western States Center: Assessing organizational racism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org\/assessing-organizational-racism\">Assessing Organizational Racism<\/a>, a checklist within the <a title=\"Western States Center: Dismantling Racism. A Resource Book.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westernstatescenter.org\/tools-and-resources\/Tools\/Dismantling%20Racism\"> Dismantling Racism<\/a> workbook. Another Working to <a title=\"Working to Create Anti-racist spaces\" href=\"http:\/\/de.scribd.com\/doc\/35559364\/Working-To-Create-Anti-Racist-Spaces\" target=\"_blank\">Create Antiracist spaces<\/a> workshop guide was presented by Trent University. In 2012, the <a title=\"Migration Council Berlin Brandenburg: Institutional Racism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mrbb.de\/dokumente\/pressemitteilungen\/LAPgR_Brosch%C3%BCre.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin Brandenburg Migration Council<\/a> also published a detailed plea against institutional racism, showing how racism permeates all social institutions. Such studies have yet to be conducted for the developmental sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development policy is one of the most international fields of work. 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