Category: Locus
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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 […]
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Show me the evidence: Cultivating knowledge on governance and food security
By: Tessa Ahner-McHaffie, FHI 360 https://researchforevidence.fhi360.org/show-me-the-evidence-cultivating-knowledge-on-governance-and-food-security I recently participated in a salon on integrating governance and food security work to enhance development outcomes. Convened by the LOCUS coalition and FHI 360, the salon gathered experts in evaluation, governance and food security to review challenges and best practices for generating evidence and knowledge. A post-salon discussion recorded with Annette Brown and Joseph Sany […]
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Program Review: A Chance to Learn & Adapt
When establishing a new project, it is customary to set the overarching goal and objectives for the project and then work backwards developing timelines, milestones, and indicators to track progress towards this goal. At Nuru International, an NGO with an integrated programming model working with farmers and their families in Kenya and Ethiopia, we have a different approach. While our project’s goal remains constant, the method used to achieve that goal is flexible within the timeline of the project. A systematic project design process allows us to create program models that are based on community needs, combining local and expatriate staff input.The Program Review process was a great success that enabled Nuru Ethiopia leaders to make data-driven decisions to improve their programs and see themselves as agents of change.
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Whose “Empowerment”?
By Meghna Ravishankar In this Guest Post, blogger Meghna Ravishankar explores ideas on Western feminism, empowerment, and the development enterprise in a publication featured in The Riveter Magazine. Ravishankar interviews Locus members Donella Rapier, CEO of BRAC USA, and Ellie Price, Locus Coalition Coordinator, among other voices. Challenges to measuring empowerment, supporting women’s resource ownership, and […]
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Locus Coalition Appoints New Coordinator
In August 2017, the Locus Coalition named Ellie Price its new Coordinator, succeeding Gregory Adams in the role of leading the coalition. Ms. Price comes from FHI 360 where she was a Program Officer on the Crisis Response and Integrated Development team. While at FHI 360, Price led the Locus Coalition’s research to quantify the impact […]
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Strengthening the global health workforce
Most will agree that health workers play an important role in health systems, eradicating diseases, empowering communities, and strengthening local economies. Yet few donor-funded projects focus exclusively on the health workforce.
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The role of Community Health Workers in the heart of crisis
The average length of conflict-induced displacement is 17 years, which means communities in displaced situations require support that are not just effective in the short-term but will pave a path towards resiliency for the long-term. Entering the humanitarian space, as FHI 360 does, with a robust development background can offer new insights for how to approach humanitarian problems. We are combining methods which hold the possibility of bringing sustainable solutions to traditional humanitarian delivery models that usually tackle problems with emergency in mind.
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Putting Vision into Focus: Lessons on scaling up a social enterprise
Approximately 12.7 million people in Bangladesh suffer from near vision loss, a consequence of the eye’s natural aging process. Without correction, it can significantly impact a person’s productivity, with serious financial, health and social implications. Uncorrected, vision costs the global economy an estimated $227 billion in lost income-earning potential. However, there is a seemingly simple fix.