The Quest for Scale
An effort to improve sanitation in developing countries yields lessons in how to achieve enduring, broad-based social impact.
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Innovative ways to improve access to basic human needs (more)
A New Approach to India’s Water Sanitation Crisis: Part 2
A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.
A New Approach to India’s Water Sanitation Crisis: Part 1
A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.
Moving Beyond Basic Water Advocacy
The story of water access is more complicated this World Water Day—we need a new approach.
Employee Engagement Gets Dirty
On-the-job impact opportunities lead to happier, more productive employees.
Measuring Impact: Keep It Clear and Simple
How clearly defining measures, and keeping them simple and meaningful, has helped World Vision increase access to clean water.
Measuring Impact Over Time
It is perhaps no coincidence that the development community’s biggest successes—eradication initiatives like polio and smallpox—are precisely the ones that made monitoring central to their work.
Let’s Talk About Water
Solving our global water and sanitation issues in a post-2015 world requires more than simply counting beneficiaries.
Ideas Changing Minds or Money Changing Hands?
Development cooperation support for social innovators is an opportunity that calls for a focus on social and ecological funds and the networks that regenerate and sustain them.
Sustainable Development in India
The restoration of the Bangalore Lakes can catalyze an overall sustainable transformation of the various districts of Bangalore—as well as reclaim an important historical connection for the city.