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VETS Indexes Names Chemonics a 3-Star Employer

Corporate Partnerships April 17, 2024
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The 2024 award highlights Chemonics' ongoing dedication to hiring and retaining veterans, creating veteran-inclusive policies and culture, and supporting military spouses and families, among other efforts.
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3 Questions with Amer Barghouth: In Search of Energy Democracy

Amer Barghouth
Sustainable Energy Transition April 16, 2024
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Access to reliable, sustainable energy continues to be a global challenge, and Amer Barghouth explains why he believes this will only change when mindsets change.
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Development Works Here with B. James Soukamneuth

B. James Soukamneuth
Economic Growth and Trade Environmental and Climate Risk Management Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development March 21, 2024
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3 Questions with Jennifer Simpson on Applied Research in International Development

Jennifer Simpson
September 12, 2022
3 Minute Read
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Chemonics’ senior advisor for applied research shares her thoughts on why research is so critical to continue learning and furthering our impact in international development programs.
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Should Evaluators Take a Step Back? Enabling Frontline Staff to Lead the Learning Process

Niki Wood | Sarah Ghattass
May 30, 2022
6 Minute Read
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
“We must learn!” is a cry commonly heard on international development programs, often resulting in ineffective quarterly “pause and reflects” that occasionally include evidence. In an increasingly complex world, the development community must do better. Prioritizing the observations of frontline staff is crucial to actually learning so that we can adapt and improve programming.
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Rapid Research and Behavior Change in Conflict-Affected Syrian Schools: An Oxymoron?

Niki Wood
October 8, 2021
5 Minute Read
Education Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
How Syrian educationalists used rapid research to nudge teachers’ engrained discipline habits and behaviors.
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Stop Evidencing Complex Results with Just Numbers and Embrace Narrative

Niki Wood
March 30, 2021
6 Minute Read
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Data Quality and Management Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA)
Development professionals often try and track change using just quantitative measures. Yet, words, not numbers, are often the most useful tools in our arsenal when seeking to measure complex change, argues Niki Wood.
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Preventing Culture from Eating Your Strategy

Alexandra Brewis-Slade | Roseanne Schuster
April 9, 2020
4 Minute Read
Global Impact Collaboratory Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
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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How to Fail to Succeed

Michael Brown
February 4, 2020
4 Minute Read
Environment and Natural Resources Conservation Solutions Lab Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
How can we improve development efforts in environmental and natural resources and other sectors by more intentionally sharing and learning from our failures? Michael Brown explores the importance of creating a culture of reflecting on failures to address urgent conservation needs.
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Best of the Blog 2019


December 31, 2019
2 Minute Read
Public Private Partnerships and Investment Health Supply Chains Education Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Peace, Stability, and Transition 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.
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Disability Measurement Challenges: Not an Excuse to Delay Inclusive Education

Paige Morency Notario
April 11, 2019
5 Minute Read
Disability-Inclusive Development Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Education Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Advancing Quality Education Empowering Youth
As development professionals, we often get waylaid by measurement challenges in our pursuit of disability-inclusive education. Paige Morency Notario reminds us that when it comes to meeting students’ needs, it’s better to start somewhere than not to start at all.
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Good, Cheap, Fast – Pick Two

Chris Gegenheimer | Leslie Sage
April 3, 2019
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Data Quality and Management Corporate Partnerships
Not every context is right for an off-the-shelf software solution. Just because a product exists, it doesn’t mean the collaboration with a vendor will be successful. Chris Gegenheimer shares a few key factors for success from an implementer’s perspective.