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Preventing Culture from Eating Your Strategy
Global Impact Collaboratory Innovation and Technology Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Quality Assurance Process Improvement April 9, 2020
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Cultural norms can thwart the most technically sound development strategies. How can the cultural consensus model, developed by anthropologists, help to ensure that culture strengthens rather than weakens a strategy's effectiveness?
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3 Takeaways from Testing the Gender Competency Framework in Ethiopia
Health Reproductive Health and Family Planning Gender Equality April 7, 2020
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How do family planning service providers consider gender when counseling their clients? Here’s what HRH2030 learned in Ethiopia.
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Building a Financial Services Market Where There Wasn’t One
Access to Finance Economic Growth and Trade Financial Services Innovation and Technology Business Enabling Environment Social Inclusion April 2, 2020
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How did one USAID initiative get banks on board to provide $1 billion in services in rural Colombia? How can we do that elsewhere? It takes a systemic, business-driven approach to connect supply with demand at scale.
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Best of the Blog 2019
December 31, 2019
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Public Private Partnerships and Investment
Health Supply Chains
Education and Youth
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Peace, Stability, and Transition
Innovation and Technology
Corporate Partnerships
Democracy and Governance
Economic Growth and Trade
This was a big year for private sector engagement, with nearly half of our most popular posts exploring its importance to the future of development. Check out those posts and other key insights, profiles, and technical approaches from Chemonics in 2019.
Let’s Get Creative: Localized Data Collection for Stronger Project Outcomes
December 23, 2019
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Anti-corruption
Data Quality and Management
Democracy and Governance
Security Sector Reform
Peace, Stability, and Transition
How can the development community become more creative with data collection to navigate complex operating environments and gather accurate, high-quality, consistent data?
An Argument for Inclusive Stabilization
November 7, 2019
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Peace, Stability, and Transition
Stabilization and Transition Assistance
Vulnerable Groups
Resilience
Democracy and Governance
How can organizations target the challenges specifically facing minority communities while ensuring efforts contribute to the cohesion and stability of the whole society? Catherine Kannam shares four best practices.
Using Civic Justice to Disrupt Cycles of Violence: Lessons Learned from Mexico
October 3, 2019
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Peace, Stability, and Transition
Youth Violence Prevention
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation
Vulnerable Groups
Democracy and Governance
By addressing root causes, civic justice can prevent violence before it escalates. In Mexico, several municipalities are turning to this model to promote lawfulness, build trust, and counter violence.
3 Questions with Todd Diamond on Countering Violent Extremism and Preventing Gang Violence
September 16, 2019
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Countering Violent Extremism
Youth Violence Prevention
Vulnerable Groups
Violence Prevention
Stabilization and Transition Assistance
Social Inclusion
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation
Peace, Stability, and Transition
Infrastructure
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
Empowering Youth
Democracy and Governance
Anti-corruption
Violent extremism and gang violence are often rooted in similar problems. What approaches work best to counter both forms of violence?
To Respond to the Venezuelan Migration Crisis, Let’s Also Tap the Private Sector
September 5, 2019
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Economic Growth and Trade
Public Private Partnerships and Investment
Human Rights
Vulnerable Groups
Financial Services
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Peace, Stability, and Transition
As Venezuelan migrants navigate challenges in host countries, the private sector must play an active role in maximizing their economic opportunities.
What the Global Fragility Act Could Mean for Development Investments
August 6, 2019
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Peace, Stability, and Transition
Stabilization and Transition Assistance
Vulnerable Groups
Disaster Assistance
Countering Violent Extremism
If passed, the Global Fragility Act (GFA) could change the way conflict prevention and stabilization is approached by the sector. Elisabeth Dallas and Brittany Patterson provide five recommendations on how to operationalize the GFA.
Stop, Look, and Listen! Preventing Recruitment of Youth into Illicit Activities in Southern Colombia
April 18, 2019
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Democracy and Governance
Violence Prevention
Peace, Stability, and Transition
Youth Violence Prevention
Center for Politically Informed Programming
As development practitioners, we tend to rush in with solutions to deal with complex problems. But, acknowledging problem complexity means we need to step back and give ourselves room to figure out how to achieve sustainable impact.