Month: February 2018
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Creating an Integrated Nutrition Game-Plan: Technical Brief and Recommendations from Lao PDR
By: Deirdre McMahon, Global Nutrition Advisor, SNV Malnutrition isn’t the result of a simple cause-and-effect algorithm. It can’t be boiled down into an if-then statement. It’s the result of a complex web of underlying factors and interrelated causes. And in response to that complexity, reducing malnutrition requires convergent action from many different sectors and stakeholders. …
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One Thing at a Time Doesn’t Work for Women
By: Sia Nowrojee, Program Director, 3D Program for Girls and Women “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” -Audre Lorde, activist and poet Early in my career, I worked in a women’s health clinic as a counselor,…
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Accelerating evidence-based south-south collaboration to reach the extreme poor
By: Emily Coppel and Isabel Whisson, BRAC Careful adaptation of proven programs in new contexts is key to achieving SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere In January of 2017, five officials from the Government of Kenya, The Boma Project, and CARE International traveled to Bangladesh. Their aim? To understand how BRAC, one…
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When the Evaluation Plan Doesn’t Reflect the Context
By: Aga Khan Foundation When a partnership offers an opportunity to improve an important value chain Aga Khan Foundation in Mozambique started the MozaCaju project with USDA funding in late 2013/early 2014, as a subcontractor to TechnoServe. The 3-year project aimed to improve the value chain for cashew production and marketing in Mozambique, providing training…