By Maria Elena Mangiafico m.mangiafico@ifad.org In striving to maximize its contribution towards the 2030 Agenda, IFAD is in the process of completing a significant portion of the major reforms foreseen in its business model. The Fund has also set its…
By Rakhi Mehra rakhi@mhscitylab.org In India, 8 people die every day due to a building collapse according to estimates from the National Crime Bureau of India. The unfortunate fact is that over 80% of low-income households find affordable habitat in…
By Rebecka Lundgren rebecka.lundgren.irh@gmail.com CUSP is a group of nine organizations with robust experience in developing social norms change methodologies that are being scaled across a variety of regions and contexts by the Center for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP), Intervention…
By Aydin Shahidi ashahidi@oneearthfuture.org One Earth Future’s PASO Colombia program (Paz Sostenible para Colombia, translated as Sustainable Peace for Colombia) is committed to working with local communities to identify and develop economic opportunities, spur job growth, strengthen the social fabric…
By Nedjma Koval nkoval@integratedinternational.org In Jordan one third of refugees are school-aged children between 5-17 years old. To absorb the influx of these children, Jordan’s Ministry of Education has established double-shifted public schools. However, the refugee crisis has placed complex…
By Feven Mekuria Feventassaw.Mekuria@care.org and Ryan Derni Ryan.Derni@care.org To meet the unique needs of married adolescent girls in rural Ethiopia and address the gap in global programming for this population, CARE created the TESFA program in 2010. TESFA – ‘hope’…
By Alfred Watkins alfred.watkins07@gmail.com The Global Solutions Summit convened for the second straight year at United Nations Headquarters in New York City on the day before the start of the official UN Multi- stakeholder STI Forum. (May 16, 2019) The…
The world is changing rapidly, and persistent problems like environmental degradation or accelerating inequality impact the entire global community and press us to do better for each other and our environment. For organizations and individuals working to tackle big social…
By The E2P team at E2P@povertyactionlab.org Well-designed randomized evaluations test theories and provide general insights about how programs designed to address poverty work. These insights, when combined with descriptive data and a deep understanding of the local context and institutions,…
By Alastair McKechnie alasmck@gmail.com There are a number of recent ODI publications that address getting to scale including the following: “Monitoring and learning for country-level portfolio decision-making and adaptation” ( org pdf) (May 2019; by Anne Buffardi, Paige Mason, Claire…