All blog articles with Best practice 15 articles Blog 7 January 2025 | Dianne Lange The Adapting Role of Global North Professionals in International Cooperation How professionals and organisations from the Global North must adapt their roles to embed localisation in their actions... Read more Blog 22 November 2023 | Sera Pantillon - Shazia Islamshah Localisation: No 'World Work' without 'Inner Work' The movement to shift power and decolonise the international cooperation sector has been recognised as an essential... Read more Blog 10 August 2023 | Sera Pantillon - Shazia Islamshah Beyond 'localisation': embracing locally led practices For almost 30 years, institutional discussions have emphasised local ownership, the active involvement and empowerment... Read more Blog 4 July 2023 | Beat Geiser Development cooperation: working in complex systems Social systems are highly complex; a development practitioner must acknowledge that personal contribution, though often... Read more Blog 22 November 2022 | Lisa Lang - Tony Zuber 1+1 = 3 | How job sharing creates value for an organisation The job sharing duo of Lisa and Tony is intergenerational, gender-mixed and complementary in terms of the experience... Read more Blog 29 September 2022 | Roya Milani Médecins sans Frontières: "How we pioneered job sharing in our field programmes" Médecins sans Frontières introduced job sharing in Iraq and reduced the turnover rate for this complex position. Read more Blog 13 July 2022 | Irenka Krone-Germann - Loraine Ding - Jérôme Faivre Diversity and inclusion: is the sector on the right track? Are diversity and inclusion adequately addressed in the Swiss labour market of international cooperation? cinfo and BASS... Read more Blog 22 June 2022 | Ursula Jenny "The fear that all employees will demand unpaid leave is completely unfounded" Solidar Suisse offers its employees unpaid leave and unpaid parental leave so that they can dedicate their time to other... Read more Blog 25 May 2022 | Isabel Günther People sometimes need change to evolve – sometimes without a reason NADEL employees can take an unpaid leave for no particular reason and on a regular basis. Read more Blog 18 May 2022 | Lucy Bamforth Medair: "Our Diversity and Inclusion journey" During the Forum cinfo 2021, Medair held a session to discuss their organisational journey towards integrating Diversity... Read more Blog 11 May 2022 | Manuela Häfeli - Kathrin Indermaur Co-chairing an HR department Manuela and Kathrin, a job-sharing duo, tell us how they run the HR department of Helvetas. Discover the lessons learned... Read more Blog 30 March 2022 | Loredana Contaldi How our employee Simon became a digital nomad A private sector company outlines the benefits and obstacles of mobile working. Get inspired. Read more Blog 17 February 2020 | Loraine Ding The cornerstones of organisational transformation Professionals from a variety of organisations tell us about their path to innovation. Find here the key takeaways. Read more Blog 8 January 2020 | Loraine Ding - Natacha Wicht Making innovation visible Maya Shah, Innovation Coordinator at Médecins Sans Frontières, believes innovation is a permanent challenge to the... Read more Blog 20 December 2019 | Loraine Ding - Natacha Wicht Innovation is a must for NGOs Thierry Agagliate, Head of Innovation at Terre des Hommes, understands innovation not just as an invention or a new idea... Read more
Blog 7 January 2025 | Dianne Lange The Adapting Role of Global North Professionals in International Cooperation How professionals and organisations from the Global North must adapt their roles to embed localisation in their actions... Read more
Blog 22 November 2023 | Sera Pantillon - Shazia Islamshah Localisation: No 'World Work' without 'Inner Work' The movement to shift power and decolonise the international cooperation sector has been recognised as an essential... Read more
Blog 10 August 2023 | Sera Pantillon - Shazia Islamshah Beyond 'localisation': embracing locally led practices For almost 30 years, institutional discussions have emphasised local ownership, the active involvement and empowerment... Read more
Blog 4 July 2023 | Beat Geiser Development cooperation: working in complex systems Social systems are highly complex; a development practitioner must acknowledge that personal contribution, though often... Read more
Blog 22 November 2022 | Lisa Lang - Tony Zuber 1+1 = 3 | How job sharing creates value for an organisation The job sharing duo of Lisa and Tony is intergenerational, gender-mixed and complementary in terms of the experience... Read more
Blog 29 September 2022 | Roya Milani Médecins sans Frontières: "How we pioneered job sharing in our field programmes" Médecins sans Frontières introduced job sharing in Iraq and reduced the turnover rate for this complex position. Read more
Blog 13 July 2022 | Irenka Krone-Germann - Loraine Ding - Jérôme Faivre Diversity and inclusion: is the sector on the right track? Are diversity and inclusion adequately addressed in the Swiss labour market of international cooperation? cinfo and BASS... Read more
Blog 22 June 2022 | Ursula Jenny "The fear that all employees will demand unpaid leave is completely unfounded" Solidar Suisse offers its employees unpaid leave and unpaid parental leave so that they can dedicate their time to other... Read more
Blog 25 May 2022 | Isabel Günther People sometimes need change to evolve – sometimes without a reason NADEL employees can take an unpaid leave for no particular reason and on a regular basis. Read more
Blog 18 May 2022 | Lucy Bamforth Medair: "Our Diversity and Inclusion journey" During the Forum cinfo 2021, Medair held a session to discuss their organisational journey towards integrating Diversity... Read more
Blog 11 May 2022 | Manuela Häfeli - Kathrin Indermaur Co-chairing an HR department Manuela and Kathrin, a job-sharing duo, tell us how they run the HR department of Helvetas. Discover the lessons learned... Read more
Blog 30 March 2022 | Loredana Contaldi How our employee Simon became a digital nomad A private sector company outlines the benefits and obstacles of mobile working. Get inspired. Read more
Blog 17 February 2020 | Loraine Ding The cornerstones of organisational transformation Professionals from a variety of organisations tell us about their path to innovation. Find here the key takeaways. Read more
Blog 8 January 2020 | Loraine Ding - Natacha Wicht Making innovation visible Maya Shah, Innovation Coordinator at Médecins Sans Frontières, believes innovation is a permanent challenge to the... Read more
Blog 20 December 2019 | Loraine Ding - Natacha Wicht Innovation is a must for NGOs Thierry Agagliate, Head of Innovation at Terre des Hommes, understands innovation not just as an invention or a new idea... Read more
