🎉 Understanding Aid and Decolonisation: A Local View

🗓️ Date: Monday, June 23, 2025

🕒 Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM IST

“A humanitarian reset needed to focus on restoring normalcy, instead of perpetuating aid dependency forever.”

Amid a deepening legitimacy and funding crisis in the global humanitarian sector, Mr. Sudhanshu S. Singh’s provocative paper, “Humanitarian Reset – A Decolonial Perspective,” challenged us to move beyond surface-level reforms. The paper served as a starting point for discussions on how colonial power structures continued to shape humanitarian responses, and it argued for a radical shift from Western-led aid paradigms to truly localised approaches that aimed to decommodify aid.

We hosted a roundtable that critically engaged with these insights and interrogated what a genuine humanitarian reset could look like. We asked: how could the sector truly decolonise itself?

This session brought together practitioners, donors, scholars, corporates, and activists who were ready to ask uncomfortable questions and explore meaningful alternatives. Together, we moved beyond buzzwords toward bold and transformative change in aid and philanthropy.

🎙 Speakers:

• Mr. Sudhanshu S. Singh, Founder and CEO, Humanitarian Aid International, New Delhi, India
• Dr. Nidhi Pundhir, Senior Vice President, Global CSR, HCLTech and Director, HCL Foundation, India
• Mr. Ali Al Mokdad, Strategic Senior Leader Specialising in Global Impact Operations, Governance, and Innovative Programming, Denmark
• Ms. Jaipreet Kaur, Decolonising Philanthropy/Aid, UK
• Mr. Mihir R. Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, India
• Mr. Khayal Trivedi, HOISA, India

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