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‘It is not enough to be non-racist; we should move forward to be an actively anti-racist sector, ensuring we don’t perpetuate racist behaviours and systems when working with racialised communities.’
Money for Madagascar has signed and is committed to fulfilling the targets of the Wales and Africa programme’s Anti-Racism Charter.
As a Malagasy-led development organisation, with extremely close ties to Wales, we are delighted to join and promote the charter, through which we all hope to help ensure development is actively anti-racist and is driven by solidarity and global partnership.
We were founded in 1986 by Welsh volunteers, in partnership with Malagasy NGOs, and we are proud of our ‘foot in each place’.
And today, following self-examination and changes which have taken place in the last 18 months, and are continuing, we are a Malagasy-led organisation, with support from the UK.
Our Madagascar-based team works alongside Malagasy partner organisations with and for Malagasy men, women and communities, providing them with the platforms from which to identify and define the challenges which face them, and the support, training and equipment they need to address and overcome them.
We run three specific programmes, each of which begins with a process of ‘deep listening’ – us meeting with them to encourage them to share their experiences and develop responses to them – and then empowers Malagasy people to use their skills, expertise and dedication to lift themselves from poverty and/or achieve their full potential, while protecting and expanding the vibrant wilderness on which we all rely.
It is a Malagasy-led Malagasy approach, to help Malagasy people develop and deliver solutions which help and protect them and their country’s extraordinary natural world.
Signing this charter is a confirmation of our commitment to Madagascar, to empowering ourselves, our partners and the communities and individuals we work with and for, and is an expression of our position, shared with the Welsh Government’s Wales and Africa programme:
‘It is not enough to be non-racist; we should move forward to be an actively anti-racist sector, ensuring we don’t perpetuate racist behaviours and systems when working with racialised communities, in Wales and Sub-Saharan Africa.
‘Racism exists in the development sector as it exists in wider society. Therefore, we must acknowledge how it manifests and take action to address the negative impacts it can have on ourselves, our colleagues, and the communities we work with. The aid sector exists to alleviate poverty, but the power dynamics of aid can reinforce power structures and systems that grew through colonisation. We must recognise this, and work with our partners openly and honestly to address racism.’
