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Creativity and Innovation During a Global Crisis

Published on: April 21, 2020 By: Jamey Butcher
Creativity and innovation are critical for the global community to fight the impacts of COVID-19. Chemonics' president and CEO Jamey Butcher explores lessons for navigating this unprecedented challenge.
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Preventing Culture from Eating Your Strategy

Published on: April 9, 2020 By: Alexandra Brewis-Slade | Roseanne Schuster
Cultural norms can thwart the most technically sound development strategies. How can the cultural consensus model, developed by anthropologists, help to ensure that culture strengthens rather than weakens a strategy's effectiveness?
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Measuring Community Norms Around Women’s Empowerment in the West Bank: Opportunities and Challenges of a Novel Approach Using Cultural Consensus

Published on: December 31, 2019 Related Projects: Enhanced Palestinian Justice Program Related Technical Areas: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, Democracy and Governance Related Countries: West Bank and Gaza
Understanding cultural norms is essential to achieving development results but can sometimes be difficult. The authors of this paper tested a novel method to monitor and evaluate a USAID justice project in the West Bank, Palestine.
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Building a Future Above the Floodwaters

Published on: February 14, 2017 By: Mikala Kass
ASU anthropologists are tracking cultural shifts that could spell safety for Mozambique's coastal communities.
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Incubators and Accelerators Aren’t Just for Silicon Valley Anymore

Published on: September 14, 2016 By: Gabriel Gonzalez-Kreisberg
Gabriel Gonzalez-Kreisberg explores the role that incubators and accelerators will play in the future of development, and discusses four new "solutions labs" created by Chemonics and Arizona State University based on the incubator model.
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