I‘ve just returned from a 7 week travelling stint in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. It is the preserve of rapidly declining rainforest, orangutans and remote islands with seas filled with turtle (for now). A childhood dream of mine but also one for my 8 year old son who…

We board a colourful well made Klotok (house boat) that is to be our home for the next 4 days. While we wait to get the next leg of our trip sorted, I sit and chat with Fardi Pardi the owner of Orangutan HouseBoat Tours. He’s a smiley guy with…

Meet Franly Oley. A quiet, none assuming guy, smiley and helpful. He will be our guide for the next 5 days as we venture into a remote village set a little way into the interior of Kalimantan, Borneo. …

We want people’s lived experience to be taken seriously and inform decisions that have an impact on low-income communities. These are the people who have the skills and experience to influence change in a positive way. …

Diversity and disruption lead to democracy — that’s what we learned when we tried changing the usual dynamic in a team creating solutions for in-work poverty. Here’s what we found out about the ‘three Ds’. 1. Diversity leads to good design Our personal experiences shape our world view, which shapes…

A call for more attention to be paid to the fluffy stuff — because this is the starting point of social change. It’s been a tumultuous week politically for the poverty situation in the UK. A week of horrendously weak responses from the political elite to a tsunami of issues…

This blog is a joint reflection with Hugh Douglas on the process that JRF undertook to co-design policy solutions to in-work poverty. Hugh is a key member of the co-design team, who brought essential lived expertise into the content and process of the project. This learning is based on a…

JRF have been moving to a more partnership approach with people in poverty. This is a long journey, but we are making progress; sometimes this feels surprisingly fast and other times (like this year) it feels like the brakes have been put on. …

To solve poverty, people with experience of the issues need an equal seat at the table. Here we reflect on the learning journey we’ve been on with partners with experience to co-develop solutions to in-work poverty. Our intention at JRF is to develop more credible solutions, share power and give…