Design Thinking
Conflict Aid Goes “Lean”
Iterative design methods are essential to development work—even (or especially) in regions marked by war and violence.
Tag: Africa
Education
Why Social Impact Educators Should Disrupt Their Own Systems
Changing who and how universities teach social innovation offers unprecedented learning opportunities for students—and the potential to create greater social impact.
Impact Investing
Accountability: The Golden Opportunity in Impact Investing
Why investors need to integrate rights and accountability into development finance, and how they can begin.
Education
How Can We “Leapfrog” Educational Outcomes?
Innovations will need to address inequity and embrace a broader range of skills than most schools currently teach.
Measurement & Evaluation
Actionable Measurement: Getting from “Prove” to “Improve”
There’s a set of common questions every direct-service nonprofit should answer to maximize learning, action, and impact.
Health
A Plan for Healing
After a period of war and genocide, Rwanda launched a national health insurance program that is now delivering sharply improved outcomes.
Last Look
Cultivating Coffee Co-ops
Many of the more than 355,000 smallholder coffee farmers in Rwanda are members of producer co-ops.
Economic Development
What’s Holding Back Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa?
To develop an ecosystem that is more friendly to entrepreneurship in the MENA region, we need to invest more in human capital.
Nonprofits & NGOs
What’s Your Exit, er, Commitment Strategy?
There are conditions under which nonprofits, even those pursuing transformative scale, will find commitment strategies—rather than exit strategies—to be the right answer for their direct service programs.
Education
A Compass for Change in High School Curricula
It is time to connect our classrooms with the world.