Organizational Development
The Adoption of Innovation
How do innovations move from the edges to the core of what an organization does? For maximum impact, innovations must cease to be innovative and become institutionalized and normalized.
Tag: USAID
Scaling
Getting to Scale: Size Matters. Shape Matters More.
Scale is a verb, not a noun: The trajectory and curve of impact are more important than the numbers.
Philanthropy & Funding
Integrative Philanthropy
The Eastern Congo Initiative is transforming foreign aid by advocating for, investing in, and partnering with community organizations.
Economic Development
Doing Development Differently
International aid must use different approaches to address the massive systemic problems it seeks to solve.
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.
Business
Six Ways to Support Small and Growing Businesses in Emerging Markets
Entrepreneur support programs are popular among donors, but many fail to incorporate rigorous research on the most effective ways to help businesses grow. Insights from current academic literature can help improve program design.
Review
Economic Development
Rethinking Development Work
Practitioners and funders in global development need less idealism and more pragmatism, Adam D. Kiš argues in The Development Trap.
Health
Putting the Invisible Hand to Work for Health
In an environment of declining aid budgets dwarfed by pools of private capital, some decades-old donor organizations are turning to market-based tools to address global health challenges.
Economic Development
A New Paradigm for Microfinance: Savings and Credit
While they are no magic wand and really only work as part of a holistic approach, there is enormous potential for international development organizations to help communities help themselves through savings and credit groups.
Economic Development
Rethinking the Global Development Convening
This year marks the last Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. How might future global development convenings build on the meeting’s success to create even greater impact?