Environment
Resilience Meets Disaster Economics
Investing to stop disasters before they start can save lives and money.
Tag: Africa
Measuring Social Impact
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.
Social Entrepreneurship
The Truth About Disruptive Development
The West shouldn’t create solutions to problems we don’t understand using fashionable mobile technologies.
Nonprofit Management
Skills-Based Volunteering: The New Executive Training Ground
Young people are gaining cultural skills and insight through volunteering that will influence their decisions for decades to come.
Health
Preventative Child Health in Mali
Pesinet, a French NGO, is assessing the added value of technology in reducing child mortality.
Microfinance
All-Mobile Microfinance
Kenya is about to become a world leader in mobile microfinance.
Economic Development
From Dependency to Self-Sufficiency
The Africa Governance Initiative aims to support a new generation of African leaders building strong, transformative government institutions.
Review
Social Entrepreneurship
Tales of an Entrepreneur
The author provides a rollicking and detailed recounting of what it takes to build a social business in Africa.
Food
Trading on Climate Change
Tanzania might benefit from unexpected trade opportunities resulting from climate change—but the country must enact policies to take advantage of them.
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Global Issues
Hotel Africa: The Politics of Escape
Hotel Africa offers a new African narrative, one that spans the economy, politics, and more from the perspective of an author on the ground.