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Jugaad Innovation explores transforming scarcity into opportunity through the gutsy art of improvising an ingenious solution.
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By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
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Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.