Civic Engagement
Digital Natives Collect Community Needs
Humanitas AI has created a smartphone app to enable young people to coordinate social projects.
Tag: Middle East
Government
Let Refugees Be Their Own Solution
Better policies in host countries can enable refugees to rebuild their lives and contribute to host economies.
Review
Human Rights
Finding a Place for Refugees
The refugee crisis demands bold responses that treat migrants not as drains on host societies but rather as assets to them.
Social Enterprise
Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings
Humanitarian assistance relies on a charity model of providing immediate relief in emergency situations. But once the emergency has passed, other approaches might better deliver services in a market-driven, customer-centric way.
Collaboration
Collective Impact Without Borders
Successful, multi-national, collective impact efforts require that organizations carefully consider two dimensions of their approach.
Education
1,001 Story Times
We Love Reading brings imaginative reading circles for children across the Middle East and around the world.
Education
Why Matchmaking in Youth Employment Programs in Middle East North Africa Aren’t Working
Insights from 10 years working on youth employment program matchmaking.
Education
Want a Better, Safer World? Build a Finance Facility for Education
History proves that big financing ideas can triumph over seemingly insurmountable global challenges.
Organizational Development
The Rise and Fall of a Teal NGO
Teal—an emerging organizational model centered on principles like self-management and wholeness—has great promise, but to leverage its potential, NGOs must understand its opportunities and challenges.
Social Enterprise
Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: Old Practice, New Concept
Better defining social entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa can help drive policy dialogue, create useful legal frameworks, and facilitate the financing and support services social enterprises in the region need to succeed.