Case Study and Webinar: The Importance of State Legitimacy in Achieving Stability

This case study explores evidence of and recommendations for legitimizing government to strengthen and stabilize fragile states.
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Global Change Requires Local Leadership

Building sustainable development solutions with local communities’ experience and knowledge at their foundations.
Blog Post

Innovation → Accelerating Progress Toward the SDGs

During this World Creativity and Innovation Day event, leading global experts share their insights into how innovation and collective action can accelerate progress toward meeting the world's most intractable challenges.
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Politics and Gender: Maintaining Women’s Meaningful Participation in Afghanistan

Chemonics and the Pulte Institute for Global Development hosted a webinar to discuss the launch of a jointly developed policy brief, exploring recommendations for securing women’s rights and roles in Afghan governance.
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Collaboration at the Core of Development

For our Dr. Basil Mahayni, development is all about collaboration and homegrown solutions, something he learned earlier in his career while working in Jordan.
Video

Chemonics and ASU: Partnership in Continual Learning

Chemonics and Arizona State University (ASU) joined forces to provide accessible continual learning opportunities to Chemonics’ global workforce.
Video

Preventing Culture from Eating Your Strategy

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?
Blog Post

Measuring Community Norms Around Women’s Empowerment in the West Bank: Opportunities and Challenges of a Novel Approach Using Cultural Consensus

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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