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Hi all, Happy New Year! Your favorite weekly #globaldev link review is back with a special 2020 review-2021 preview section & plenty of new interesting readings! Enjoy! My quotes of the week Senior leaders in non-profits need to critically interrogate the following questions as a priority: does your diversity and inclusion focal point have legitimacy among minoritised groups in your organisation? Be honest — in what ways might you be setting them up to fail rather than succeed? To what extent are you asking staff working on diversity to focus more on PR than systemic change? How will you support your diversity officer to act in the face of resistance? What does institutional transformation mean to you — and how far are you willing to go? (So You’ve Hired a Diversity and Inclusion Expert? Here Are Six Ways You Could Be Undermining Them) As the case of Kenya shows, the introduction of centralized biometric systems increases the risk of function creep. Even if intended fo