Civic Engagement
When Aid Fails
The citizen journalism effort What Went Wrong? examines international development projects with the help of reports from people the project was supposed to benefit. A What's Next article from the Summer 2019 issue.
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Technology
Queer Activism Goes Online
Astraea’s CommsLabs program combines indigenous knowledge, technology, and healing practices to power the next wave of LGBTQI organizing. From the Summer 2019 issue.
Economic Development
Paying It Forward in International Development
Development practitioners must build a culture of learning, negotiation, and collaboration, so that the generation and use of evidence are integrated into program design and implementation.
Health
Women’s Groups and Funders Respond to Global Gag Rule
Four successful strategies to mitigate the effects of a restrictive funding policy that the Trump administration reinstated.
Energy
Scaling Power for Global Prosperity
Ending energy poverty to address systemic inequality requires a much more ambitious plan than philanthropic and nonprofit leaders currently envision.
Governance
Six Ways to Repair Declining Social Trust
We must take proactive and preventive steps to restore trust across government, business, and civic institutions, or societies around the world may be at greater risk of chaos and conflict.
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Business
How Business Can Accelerate Africa’s Development
An excerpt from Africa's Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World's Next Big Growth Market shows how "doing good" and "doing well" go hand-in-hand.
Business
Three Ways Businesses Can Improve Their Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs
Corporate programs that focus on women’s economic empowerment need to incorporate women-centered, context-specific design and business-aligned measurement from the start.
Health
Routine Health Care in the Time of Ebola
An organization’s response to a wide-scale Ebola outbreak provides six lessons in sustainable impact for NGO leaders.
Technology
On-Demand Medical Drone Delivery
Using autonomous drones, the company Zipline can deliver blood products and medicines for immediate medical treatment in remote areas.