Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?
Three principles for rethinking and changing scholarly behavior.
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Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance
How an innovative stakeholder-shareholder investment model is helping smallholder farmers grow and thrive.
Linking Youth Into Society
Life Project 4 Youth Alliance promotes the personal development and professional advancement of impoverished youth.
Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Biocultural Capital
To create a more resilient and equitable world, the fragile potentiality of our planet’s biological and cultural diversity must be converted, conserved, and constructed.
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Walking Through Truth: Indigenous Wisdom and Community Health Equity
Despite adversities, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas continue to thrive and develop solutions to social problems that help their communities—and the wider world.
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Making the Gig Economy Work for Workers
The gig economy has upended the traditional employer-employee relationship and informalized work globally. Now workers around the world are pushing back.
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The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey
Despite a notoriously innovation-adverse environment in UN organizations overall, a growing body of success stories are changing lives and contributing to continuous organizational learning.
Approaching Gender Equity Through Indigenous Knowledge and Customs
A trial program that worked with couples in rural Zimbabwe shows the potential of a locality-based approach.
The Invisible Rural Access Barrier
More than one billion people live in rural, isolated areas in low-income countries. Improving their access to roads and transportation is a prerequisite to unlocking better health, education, and economic outcomes.