Nicola Banks is a member of the Reimagining the International NGO (RINGO) Social Lab. This brings around 50 passionate individuals from various parts of the aid sector (particularly NGOs themselves) to identify obstacles in the international aid system that create and maintain inequalities between NGOs in the Global North and South and to design interventions to promote more equitable systems change. As part of this, she is co-launching a new initiative through which to direct long-term and unrestricted funds to community-based organisations in the Global North and South.