

Our GDI team brings together diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives with different ways of thinking to create better outcomes within social impact. As a part of this series, we will share how folks on our team use their functional experience, ranging from...

Rural Youth at Work: A Place Based Approach to Connect Young India to Economic Opportunity
Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN) is a multi-stakeholder partnership committed to catalysing place-based systems shifts in communities — cities and rural districts — around the world through the creation of sustainable economic opportunities for “Opportunity...
What Does It Mean to Embed Kindness, Dignity, and Compassion into Systems?
GDI’s Managing Director, Chintan Maru, shares his portfolio of efforts, which tie together the themes of embedding compassion, dignity, and kindness into systems, especially for health and racial equity. Along with the macro themes, Chintan dives in on four...

New Brief: Ending the Economic Exclusion of People on the Move
The movement of people will be a defining issue of the 21st century but has largely been treated as “niche” by the global development community. Over a billion people are either living or want to live across international borders in search of a better life, spurred by...

Partnering, Mobilizing, Connecting: GOYN’s Approach to Youth Engagement
GDI-incubated Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN) recently published their second instalment of their ‘The Future is Young’ Learning Series, introducing their innovative approach to youth engagement. Their series seeks to lift up emerging practices and evidence...

GDI’s 2022 Year in Review
GDI is coming up on its eighth year since our founding in 2014. We continue to be guided by our core values: we stand on integrity; we follow our curiosity; we’re doers, not talkers; we embrace taking risks; and we see strength in diversity. This year, we’ve...