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The Next Pandemic: Three Ways to Prepare
Health Systems Health Supply Chains Human Resources for Health Global Health Security July 9, 2020
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COVID-19 has overwhelmed health systems in countries like the United States, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. We must act now to mitigate the potentially catastrophic impacts on many developing countries where cases are swiftly increasing.
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Psychosocial Support for Children Counters the Legacy of Violent Extremism in Syria
Advancing Quality Education Education and Youth Countering Violent Extremism Recovery and Reconstruction July 1, 2020
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Exposure to violent and radical ISIS ideologies has damaged Syrian children’s mental health. In areas touched by violent extremism, transforming classrooms into mental health positive spaces that deliver psychosocial support can kickstart the healing process.
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The Work You May Not Know You’re Doing and How To Do It Better
Rule of Law and Security Sector Strengthening Democracy and Governance Cross-Sector Development Anti-corruption June 30, 2020
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Stacia George and Heather Seeley explore why security sector reform is key to every development project, how you may be enacting reform without knowing it, and how to do more to integrate best practices into your project for more effective and just security sector wherever you work.
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Lead with Data: A Practical Tool to Design and Implement Market Systems Programming
June 17, 2020
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Agriculture and Food Security
Economic Growth and Trade
Inclusive Agricultural Market Systems and Value Chains
Capacity Building
How do you ensure your project team understands and can implement a systems-thinking approach to market systems development? Elizabeth Fustos and Amy Ostrander provide a promising framework and explore how one project used it for success.
Three Models that Ensure Private Sector Engagement
February 10, 2020
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Public Private Partnerships and Investment
Economic Growth and Trade
Business Enabling Environment
Agriculture and Food Security
If private sector engagement (PSE) is a journey — with some companies farther along than others — then what is the role of international development implementers to better enable and facilitate that engagement?
News: Chemonics Invests in Young Innovators’ Promising Development Solutions
December 5, 2019
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Agriculture and Food Security
Climate-Smart Agriculture
Corporate Partnerships
Cross-Sector Development
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Environment and Natural Resources
Environmental Management
Improved Production Practices and Technologies
Water and Wastewater
Food Security
Capacity Building
The company's investment of cash and in-kind services recognizes scalable solutions to global development challenges created at recent UNLEASH global innovation lab.
She Is an Agripreneur: Enabling Female Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness
October 22, 2019
4 Minute Read
Agriculture and Food Security
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Inclusive Agricultural Market Systems and Value Chains
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
Food Security
When economically empowered, women reinvest in their communities — leading to greater self-reliance, prosperity, and food security. To support these outcomes, the development community should adopt high-impact initiatives for female entrepreneurs in the agriculture sector.
News: Building Resilience Through Market Systems: Chemonics Presents at SEEP 2019
October 21, 2019
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Economic Growth and Trade
Agriculture and Food Security
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Financial Services
Climate Change
Data Visibility
From October 21 to 23, Chemonics experts are participating in the SEEP Network Annual Conference, leading peer learning sessions on financial inclusion and resilience.
Maximizing the Power of Climate Data by Building Trust
September 25, 2019
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Agriculture and Food Security
Climate Change
Climate-Smart Agriculture
Business Enabling Environment
Economic Growth and Trade
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Improved Production Practices and Technologies
Inclusive Agricultural Market Systems and Value Chains
Environment and Natural Resources
As populations around the world are increasingly affected by climate change, we must build trust in climate data to foster greater resilience.
3 Questions with Najib Seguya on Pay-for-Results Financing
September 17, 2019
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Economic Growth and Trade
Access to Finance
Business Enabling Environment
Agriculture and Food Security
Youth Workforce Development
Empowering Youth
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Pay-for-results can drive effective, cost-efficient development programming. Najib Seguya shares lessons learned on this results-based financing mechanism.
Development Works Here with Robert Anyang
June 5, 2019
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Agriculture and Food Security
Food Security
Enabling Environment for Agriculture
Improved Production Practices and Technologies
Inclusive Agricultural Market Systems and Value Chains
Development works here because great people work here. We’re excited to introduce you to our team.
3 Questions with Cynthia Steen on Transforming Moldova’s Agriculture Sector
May 21, 2019
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Agriculture and Food Security
Improved Production Practices and Technologies
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Economic Growth and Trade
Enabling Environment for Agriculture
Youth Workforce Development
Food Security
In Moldova, agricultural producers are diversifying their markets, while brokering new relationships and harnessing innovative technologies. Cynthia Steen discusses challenges and successes in this venture.