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A Perestroika for Belarus?

Seven years ago a blog with this title would seem ridiculous. In the aftermath of the 2010 elections, President Lukashenko had several opposition members imprisoned, had others harassed, and cracked down hard on demonstrators. Five years earlier, Secretary of State Rice named Belarus the “las...

Ten Top Trends to Watch in Development Monitoring and Evaluation in 2017

If development evaluation is at an inflection point, what are the drivers that would enable this turning point? There are ten top trends in development evaluation emerging in 2017 that — if widely adopted — indeed promise to revolutionize how we determine what works and learn from dev...

M&E, Technology, and $2,000 Smartphones in Argentina

This article originally appeared on panoplydigital.com. By Alexandra Tyers Last week, I was in Rosario, Argentina with the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and their partner in Argentina, Fundacion Libertad. I was there delivering a two-day training workshop on monitoring, evalu...

Transformational Leadership Wanted

In today’s world of polarized politics, divisions within societies struggling with the history of divisions feel particularly deep. Countries emerging from conflict, such as Colombia or South Sudan, are striving to make progress toward non-violence and reconciliation. Even in peaceful, mature...

Women Head More than a Quarter of Refugee Households. What’s Next for Them?

Each year on March 8, the world observes International Women’s Day, a day to recognize both how far we as a global community have come, and also how far we have to go, in achieving gender parity. The World Economic Forum (WEF) estimates that the gender gap won’t close until 2186. 2017&...

Trail Blazing in Sri Lanka: the Sri Lanka Women’s Chamber of Industry and Commerce

Women represent 51.58 percent of the population of Sri Lanka, according to official data published by the Department of Census and Statistics in 2016. However, their participation in the economy remains low. Women make up only 36.5 percent of the 8. 3 million economically active population of the ...

Harnessing the Power of the Digital Economy to Achieve Global Development Goals

This piece originally appeared in the WIIT Communique. The invention of the telegraph was seen as“completely revolutionizing existing modes of doing business; for when telegraphic lines become extended, and its transmitting powers vastly improve, as they doubtless will be, Western, Southern...

Economic Reform Feature Service Article: Development Evaluation at a Key Inflection Point

An inflection point is a turning point. Recent developments promise such a turning point for international development and development evaluation. What would make this turning point catalytic is if it can mobilize private sector inv...

Defending Liberal Democracy in Emerging Markets

Following a wave of global democratization, over the last decade democracies in emerging markets have been tested from above and below. In countries previously seen as successes, citizens are frustrated by economic stagnation and dislocation, dissatisfied with underperforming governments, and divid...

Private Sector Innovation in Refugee Response and Why it Matters

More than five and a half years deep into the Syrian war, the development aid space is crowded: crowded with emergency relief agencies working to supply besieged communities with critical food supplies and healthcare; crowded with multinational donors working to catalyze economic and political chan...