Food
Turning Short-Term Crisis Relief Into Longer-Term Social Innovation
How civil society responses to COVID-19 in South Africa are resisting the all-too-common return to pre-crisis “normal.”
Tag: Africa
Design Thinking
The Next Chapter in Design for Social Innovation
To address more complex social challenges, design thinking must become radically more collaborative and oriented toward systems change.
Economic Development
Unveiling the Informal Economy
Stereotypes cloud our perception of the informal economy, but we have much to learn from the entrepreneurship that unfolds there.
Social Enterprise
Lending in the Shadow of Colonialism
Financial program to help microenterprises in Tanzania fails to take local context into account.
Social Enterprise
Emerging Stronger From a Crisis
These battle-tested insights can help social enterprises increase their impact as they navigate severe crises like COVID-19.
Government
How NGOs Can Work With Governments to Build Partnerships That Will Scale
Four lessons from Togo on scaling health care innovation through the public sector.
Health
River Helpers
New research indicates that prawns offer an unlikely solution for an infectious disease in Senegal.
Foundations
How to Make Society’s Risk Capital Riskier
Philanthropy must hire outside the box, write the first check, and take unsolicited applications.
Health
How to Ensure Medical Devices Help Communities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Governments, foundations, and social enterprises that want to ramp up the production and distribution of medical equipment in response to COVID-19 and other ongoing threats need to assess the process holistically or risk overpromising and underdelivering on important aid. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
Philanthropy & Funding
When Peers Work Together to Drive Social Change
Funders can build on “constituent engagement” by supporting peer groups as they lead their own change and work collectively to advance their lives.