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...
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Partnering, Mobilizing, Connecting: GOYN’s Approach to Youth Engagement
GOYN’s vision is that Global Opportunity Youth have equitable access to dignified and productive entrepreneurship and employment pathways.GOYN’s mission is to mobi...
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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...
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Migrants Resilience Collaborative Report: Internal Migration in Asia
At the beginning of the first wave of COVID-19 in 2020, countries across the world announced lockdowns of varying severities. Millions of migrant workers were left to fen...
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GDI’s Efforts to Localize Development
Over the last year, we’ve explored how GDI can help accelerate the field to localize development, unpacking the supply and demand barriers and outlining a series of int...
- Read more about Discovery Case Study: Market Incentives for Off-Grid Renewable Energy
Discovery Case Study: Market Incentives for Off-Grid Renewable Energy
Testing the effectiveness and scalability of new, innovative ideas requires resources that non-profit startups often lack. To help solve this challenge, GDI invests its unrestricte...
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Guidance for Non-Profit Board Management – Part 2: Auditing
Audit Committee PurposeThe Audit Committee’s primary role is to oversee the audit process, including identifying the scope of the audit, selecting the auditor, conside...
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Guidance for Non-Profit Board Management – Part 1: Finance
An essential element for the success of a new non-profit organization is effective board oversight and engagement. In GDI’s experience, one of the more challenging area...
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Insights on the role of Technical and Vocational Education & Training in supporting youth livelihoods
GDI and the Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN) partnered with the African Union and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) to share insights on the role o...
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Localizing Development: Identifying Barriers, Solutions, and Opportunities
When we began our exploration of localizing development we started with a hypothesis:There are structural barriers that are limiting both donors and recipients from maki...
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Localizing Development: Proposed Supply Solutions to Overcome Barriers
In our last article we explored potential solutions to address barriers for domestically registered organizations to receive international funding. In addition to those...
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Localizing Development: Proposed Demand Solutions to Overcome Barriers
Our initial exploration into localizing development was based on an idea: there are barriers to progress that need practical solutions if we want to make significant prog...
