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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
Sustainable Energy Transition April 16, 2024
5 Minute Read
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
Economic Growth and Trade Environmental and Climate Risk Management Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development March 21, 2024
4 Minute Read
3 Questions on Financing Self-Reliance with Mario Kerby
August 11, 2020
4 Minute Read
Economic Growth and Trade
Public Financial Management
Democracy and Governance
Center for Politically Informed Programming
How can development practitioners foster local commitment for financing self-reliance? Chief of Party Mario Kerby shares how his project has engaged a diverse array of stakeholders — from finance ministers to schoolchildren — to ensure commitment to crucial fiscal reforms remains strong.
Coding ‘Thinking and Working Politically’ into a Project’s DNA
May 29, 2019
4 Minute Read
Democracy and Governance
Economic Growth and Trade
Business Enabling Environment
Civil Society, Civic Engagement, and Independent Media
Public Private Partnerships and Investment
Center for Politically Informed Programming
Promising results are unfolding as project staff begin to think and work politically on one USAID project in Timor-Leste.
Stop, Look, and Listen! Preventing Recruitment of Youth into Illicit Activities in Southern Colombia
April 18, 2019
2 Minute Read
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.
Can We Actually Think and Work Politically?
February 28, 2019
< 1 Minute Read
Health
Health Systems
Human Resources for Health
Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA)
Democracy and Governance
Center for Politically Informed Programming
Robert Brookes and Susan Kemp advocate for collective action to change how we do development and accelerate progress toward development goals.
The Politics of Biodiversity: Two Experiences with Thinking and Working Politically
November 29, 2018
4 Minute Read
Environment and Natural Resources
Biodiversity Conservation and Natural Resource Management
Democracy and Governance
Civil Society, Civic Engagement, and Independent Media
Center for Politically Informed Programming
What does thinking and working politically on biodiversity projects look like? Carolyn Heaps shares experiences and lessons learned from projects in Guatemala and Indonesia.
