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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How can we improve development efforts in environmental and natural resources and other sectors by more intentionally sharing and learning from our failures? Michael Brown explores the importance of creating a culture of reflecting on failures to address urgent conservation needs.
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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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ASU anthropologists are tracking cultural shifts that could spell safety for Mozambique's coastal communities.
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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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