IMPACT INDIA
Do It the Hard Way
To ensure that its clean-water initiatives will stick and grow, Splash works with local partners that will take over when it moves on.
Tag: Public Health
IMPACT INDIA
Outsized Outcomes
With a sustainable program structure, skilled advocacy, and targeted technical assistance, Evidence Action helped pull off the world’s largest one-day deworming event.
IMPACT INDIA
Improving Sanitation for Adolescent Girls
The lack of toilets in India has a disproportionate impact on adolescent girls.
Organizational Development
Why Science Matters in International Aid
How the Belgian Red Cross is using scientific evidence to make its services more effective—and cost-effective.
Government
Don’t Forget the Government
Why we need strong public-private partnerships in health care and beyond.
Health
Three Strategies for Achieving the New Global Development Goals
We must create new channels for collaboration, new strategies for investment, and a coordinated approach as we look to achieve and pay for the new global agenda.
Big Picture
Fostering Behavior Change for Better Health
How a patient-centered approach and tools from the private sector can greatly enhance global health programs that require changes in attitudes or behavior.
Nonprofits
Why the Social Sector Needs the Scientific Method
A flawed study on deworming children—and new studies that expose its errors—reveal why activists and philanthropists alike need safeguards.
Practical Advice
Creating Health in the 21st Century
Five principles to guide how communities can develop new pathways to health, plus concrete steps toward contributing to a culture that values connections and relationships as much as treatments and health campaigns.
From The Field
Communities Can Set the Course for Lasting Change
Communities have the resources to address the problems they face; they just need to approach those problems in a different way.