Leadership
Can Business Elites Save the “Africa Rising” Narrative?
Four strategies in particular may help Africa’s wealthiest businesspeople effect social change and drive economic growth.
Tag: International Development
Education
Let the Man Do His Job!
It’s hard to be a government minister in a country where resources are scarce. Don’t make it worse.
Measurement & Evaluation
How Nonprofits Can Drive Healthy Growth Using SROI
Social return on investment is an underutilized yet surprisingly flexible tool for making strong resource allocation decisions that maximize nonprofit impact.
Health
Optimizing on the Edges
Combining tools such as design thinking, behavioral science, and evaluation can shape programs to improve patient experiences and change health behaviors.
Scaling
What Exactly Do We Mean by Systems?
Everyone is talking about systems. Or at least, that's how it seems in my wonkish corner of the philanthropic world. You can't attend a conference or even have a meeting without hearing about systems, whether it's people trying to disrupt them, map them, learn from them, or catalyze them.
Impact Investing
Pushing the Boundaries of Impact Investing
Recent experimentation in global health research and development reveals how nonprofit organizations can explore and potentially attract impact investment.
Education
Want a Better, Safer World? Build a Finance Facility for Education
History proves that big financing ideas can triumph over seemingly insurmountable global challenges.
Collaboration
When and How to Shut Down a Partnership
In a global development sector tight on resources, partnerships should shut down after accomplishing (or failing to achieve) their missions.
Health
China’s Emerging Role in Social Innovation for Global Good
Growing support for multilateral development and expanding R&D capacity make China increasingly important in the quest to advance global health.
Civic Engagement
Lessons from East Africa on Effective Community Organizing
How a revitalized sense of civic duty can go beyond resistance and make real progress.