Collaboration
When and How to Shut Down a Partnership
In a global development sector tight on resources, partnerships should shut down after accomplishing (or failing to achieve) their missions.
Tag: International Development
Health
China’s Emerging Role in Social Innovation for Global Good
Growing support for multilateral development and expanding R&D capacity make China increasingly important in the quest to advance global health.
Civic Engagement
Lessons from East Africa on Effective Community Organizing
How a revitalized sense of civic duty can go beyond resistance and make real progress.
Scaling
Solving Big Social Problems by Thinking Small
Frugal, flexible, and inclusive “jugaad innovation” provides a compelling model for nonprofits looking for innovative solutions to significant problems.
Human Rights
Protecting the Heart of Environmental Civil Society
Three strategies for ensuring the safety and security of people defending their environment and human rights around the world.
Water & Sanitation
Development Malpractice In Ghana
How stuff that doesn’t work can screw up stuff that does.
Collaboration
Sustainability: A New Path to Corporate and NGO Collaborations
The convergence of shifting corporate social responsibility trends, untapped NGO value, and pressing development challenges holds tremendous potential for driving social impact and business innovation.
Scaling
Scaling Out
For solutions to get to scale, we need strong entrepreneurs who can build on existing breakthrough ideas, rather than creating entirely new ones.
IMPACT INDIA
From the Ground Up
Top-down development doesn't work. What's needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and government agencies working together as equals.
IMPACT INDIA
Water Is Power
A project undertaken by Indian NGO Gram Vikas shows how efforts to solve a particular social problem can have a far reaching impact on an entire social system.