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Foundation-written and -funded reports look at current state of affairs and shine a light on the future
Dec 23 2015
Impact Hiring: How Data Will Transform Youth Employment
Youth unemployment in the United States is an intractable problem, especially for the vulnerable segment of 'opportunity youth'—young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither in …
U.S. Economic Opportunity
Dec 08 2015
Incentive-Based Instruments for Water Management
Human transformation of freshwater ecosystems is rapidly exceeding capacity required to sustain the conditions we need to survive and thrive. Water crises are already impacting people around the globe—from river …
Climate
Dec 05 2015
Resilience Scan | October-December 2015
This ‘resilience scan’ summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the last quarter of 2015, focussing primarily on the context of developing countries. The scan will be …
Nov 18 2015
5th Wave: Social Impact Evaluation
This working paper describes evaluation as a growth industry in rapid transformation. Given the twin challenges of increased inequality and results orientation a new generation of evaluators will have to …
Nov 18 2015
Streams of Social Impact Work
This working paper addresses the gaps and opportunities between the approaches of traditional public sector and NGO program evaluation and the social impact measurement approaches of new market-oriented players. The authors …
Oct 18 2015
Transforming Health Systems Country Case Study Briefs
Transforming Health Systems grants tackled four health systems concerns: stewardship and management, financing, information systems, and universal health care (UHC) policy and advocacy. In each target country, the grants provided …