Measurement & Evaluation
Learning in Stages
To achieve impact at scale, funders should expect different monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities as programs mature.
Tag: Poverty
Understanding why people are poor and innovative ways to alleviate poverty
Economic Development
Upgrading the Plumbing of the International Aid System
Multilateral development banks and humanitarian non-governmental organizations have mostly ignored each other while working to improve lives. But with poverty increasingly concentrated in conflict-affected countries, changes are needed to provide a better collective response.
Economic Development
Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan
Colonialism has contributed to enduring power imbalances between Okinawa and mainland Japan, but there is a path forward through policy change.
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Scaling
Leverage and Experimentation
An excerpt from Scaling Up Development Impact on scaling through government
Measurement & Evaluation
Rethinking RCTs
Randomized controlled trials have limited value for program implementers without better theories of change and broader sources of data. Behavioral science can help.
Philanthropy & Funding
Zero-Problem Philanthropy
Moving away from endless problem-solving and toward creating healthy context.
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Walking Through Truth: Indigenous Wisdom and Community Health Equity
Despite adversities, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas continue to thrive and develop solutions to social problems that help their communities—and the wider world.
Social Enterprise
A Haven for Transitional Youth
First Light Hospitality has developed a scalable social enterprise that provides jobs, life skills, and outdoor fun for young people aging out of the social-services system.
Review
Human Rights
Poverty Persists Because of Us
In Poverty, by America, sociologist Matthew Desmond argues that America’s welfare state doesn’t help those who need it the most.