Chemonics News and Blog

Disability Measurement Challenges: Not an Excuse to Delay Inclusive Education
April 11, 2019
5 Minute Read
Disability-Inclusive development
Social Inclusion
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Education and Youth
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.

Good, Cheap, Fast – Pick Two
April 3, 2019
< 1 Minute Read
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Data Quality and Management
Corporate Partnerships
Innovation and Technology
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.

When Projects Close: Lessons Learned from an Ex-Post Study
March 29, 2019
4 Minute Read
Agriculture and Food Security
Resilience
Inclusive Agricultural Market Systems and Value Chains
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
An ex-post study of project impact can inform future programming and validate development approaches. But, what factors should implementors consider when planning such studies? Ilisa Gertner and Caryl Merten share their recent ex-post experience.

Best of the Blog 2018
December 27, 2018
2 Minute Read
Supply Chain Solutions
Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
Gender Equality
Social Inclusion
Democracy and Governance
Countering Violent Extremism
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
From socially inclusive development to a robotics club in Moldova, Chemonics’ staff members have shared their insights, opinions, and technical approaches on our blog.