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- Read more about Betting on Migration for Impact
Betting on Migration for Impact
GDI Director Jason Wendle writes in Stanford Social Innovation Review about transformative migration efforts, building off his work with Malengo, Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP)...
- Read more about What’s Your Endgame?
What’s Your Endgame?
An endgame is the specific role that a nonprofit intends to play in the overall solution to a social problem, once it has proven the effectiveness of its core model or intervention...
- Read more about More Than the Sum of its Parts: Making Multi-stakeholder Initiatives Work
More Than the Sum of its Parts: Making Multi-stakeholder Initiatives Work
Now more than ever, solving the world’s most pressing problems requires the kind of systems-level change that can only be addressed by collective action......
- Read more about GDI’s 2024 Year in Review and What’s Ahead for 2025
GDI’s 2024 Year in Review and What’s Ahead for 2025
This year marked a special milestone as the Global Development Incubator reached its tenth year developing solutions that spark sustainable and inclusive development. Cur...
- Read more about Bridging the Gap: Daraja’s Vision to Empower Local Organizations and Transform Development
Bridging the Gap: Daraja’s Vision to Empower Local Organizations and Transform Development
In the realm of international development, a persistent challenge has long hindered the effectiveness of aid efforts: the disconnect between the priorities of global dono...
- Read more about Exploring Compass: An AI Conversational Agent for Personalized Skill Discovery
Exploring Compass: An AI Conversational Agent for Personalized Skill Discovery
In the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI applications, Compass is designed to engage users in exploratory conversations to gather information and identify their unique sk...
- Read more about Mapping the Unseen Economy: Expanding Traditional Skill Frameworks to Recognize and Utilize Unpaid Work
Mapping the Unseen Economy: Expanding Traditional Skill Frameworks to Recognize and Utilize Unpaid Work
Globally, women spend 2.8 more hours per day on unpaid care and domestic work than men, accumulating to 6 to 7 additional years over their working lives. These activitie...
- Read more about The State of Rural Youth
The State of Rural Youth
Youth employment is a global challenge. Of the 1.8 billion youth worldwide, a third are out of school, unemployed or working in informal jobs. 90 percent live in developi...
- Read more about Uplifting Home-Based Childcare: A Systems Approach to ImpactÂ
Uplifting Home-Based Childcare: A Systems Approach to ImpactÂ
What does it take to prompt mindset and behavior changes for communities, decision-makers, and funders so that they consistently back, invest in, and acknowledge home-based childca...
- Read more about Shared Services Platform Holds First Annual Leadership WorkshopÂ
Shared Services Platform Holds First Annual Leadership WorkshopÂ
Daraja – Shared Services Platform, a GDI initiative that aims to drive sustainable development in Africa by providing an efficient, risk-free, and impact-driven investment pathwa...
- Read more about Global Opportunity Youth Network Case Studies: Innovative Approaches to Address Youth Unemployment in Brazil and India
Global Opportunity Youth Network Case Studies: Innovative Approaches to Address Youth Unemployment in Brazil and India
The Global Opportunity Youth Network, a multi-stakeholder initiative hosted at The Aspen Institute and managed in partnership with GDI, recently published two short case studie...
- Read more about GDI’s 2023 Year in Review and What’s Ahead for 2024
GDI’s 2023 Year in Review and What’s Ahead for 2024
We are hopeful. In a year of daunting news – devastating conflict, sliding toward climate catastrophe, inclusive societies at risk around the world – we remain optimistic. We'v...
- Read more about Decarbonizing Water: Applying the Voluntary Carbon Market toward Global Water Security
Decarbonizing Water: Applying the Voluntary Carbon Market toward Global Water Security
GDI-incubated Resilient Water Accelerator recently published their new report revealing that by supporting improved access to clean water for vulnerable communities, over 1.6 billi...
- Read more about Aceli Africa Year 3 Learning Report
Aceli Africa Year 3 Learning Report
Aceli Africa’s Year 3 Learning Report shares data and case studies drawn from 1,567 agriculture loans totaling $152M, more than double the volume captured in ourÂ...
