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Dr. A.K. Shiva Kumar wrote Equity and Inclusive Growth from a Development Perspective to supplement a series of workshops with Rockefeller Foundation staff in 2012 and 2013. The paper has since become …

Achieving The Rockefeller Foundation’s goals to build resilience and advance inclusive economies requires moving beyond traditional approaches to problem-solving. New ways of thinking and working are needed in order to …

The process of implementing developmental evaluation for The Rockefeller Foundation’s youth digital employment initiative yielded some valuable lessons which could be of benefit to the evaluation community, particularly evaluation practitioners …

Creating employment opportunities for youth is a priority for many countries. How can these opportunities – increasingly situated within market-based approaches to development – generate and sustain positive employment and …

In 2013, in response to the opportunities presented by Africa’s rapidly growing youth population and the ubiquity of information and communications technologies across the continent, The Rockefeller Foundation launched its …

In 2005, the late South African president Nelson Mandela made this remark as part of an address on ending global poverty to a crowd of 22,000 gathered in London’s Trafalgar …

Resilience has been an important concept in thinking about adaptation to climate change and is increasingly used in connection with adaptation to other sorts of risks as well. But defining …

The Rockefeller Foundation has long recognized the importance of meaningful engagement of the private sector in addressing many of the world’s most complex problems. While many social sector leaders understand …

There’s no doubt that water scarcity represents one of the greatest threats to the well-being of people, and the ecosys-tems they depend on. Water is central to nearly every aspect …

Ending poverty and fostering sustainable development — the aims of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — will require some $3.9 trillion annually for the next 15 years in developing countries …