CARE Failing Forward

By Emily Janoch

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CARE staff around the world talk about experiences we learn from failure, and how we use that to get better at our work.

Episode Date
Transforming Lives Amidst Growing Security Challenges in Mali
Apr 22, 2024
Have I Solved the Problem: why innovation labs fail
Mar 26, 2024
Moving from publication to action
Feb 27, 2024
Start at the roots: how to turn around failure
Jan 30, 2024
Notes from a Failure Summit
Jan 17, 2024
A Magical Example of Adolescent Girls Leading
Jan 03, 2024
There was no blueprint: trying to make COVID-19 vaccines fast and fair
Dec 06, 2023
Too Many Trainings
Nov 21, 2023
Reimagining IMAGINE
Nov 08, 2023
The New Usual: Supporting Frontline Healthworkers as a goal, not a tool
Oct 25, 2023
Connecting Learning to Decisions
Oct 11, 2023
Cozy with the context
Sep 21, 2023
It is possible: Savings groups in emergencies
Sep 06, 2023
Getting Rigor Right
Aug 24, 2023
Balancing Risk and Agility: The benefits and challenges of 78 years of organizational expertise
Aug 10, 2023
Reigniting Empowerment: Redesigning staff diversity training to prevent harm
Aug 03, 2023
Avoiding Hothouse Flowers
Jul 05, 2023
Telling the Truth in Love
May 23, 2023
Don’t Feed the Zombies
May 08, 2023
Life Happens: Balancing Rigor and Lived Truth
Apr 25, 2023
From $2 to $20: getting more impact for the dollar in international development
Mar 20, 2023
Why Resilience Beats Sustainability
Mar 06, 2023
Stop Analyzing and Act
Feb 20, 2023
Perception is Everything
Jan 10, 2023
Sit in the Failure
Dec 20, 2022
Get Over It: Learning from Failure 2022
Dec 13, 2022
The Data Belongs to Them
Nov 16, 2022
We should not be a burden
Nov 09, 2022
Always Have a Plan B: How to Assess Risk within Partnerships
Nov 02, 2022
Know Your Partners
Oct 19, 2022
What we think we know: why cash didn’t work without addressing GBV
Oct 05, 2022
La conversación difícil e incómoda (en español)
Sep 20, 2022
Myths about Flexibility
Sep 06, 2022
Innovation is not enough: Gender, Technology, and Water in Kenya
Jul 25, 2022
The Chance To Choose Something Different: Crypto, Cash, and Refugees
May 26, 2022
Don’t Be Afraid to Stop When It’s Not Working
May 02, 2022
Reflection and Risk: Lessons from Girl-Led Activism
Mar 01, 2022
More listening: Taking feedback to create and use more effective standards
Feb 18, 2022
It’s not a choice: Connecting Cash and GBV
Feb 16, 2022
Move faster: Finding ways to support GBV Survivors with Cash Services (English)
Feb 11, 2022
Move faster: Finding ways to support GBV Survivors with Cash Services (Arabic)
Feb 09, 2022
Efficient, Effective, or Inexpensive: Looking at Cost Efficiency for Impact, Not Just Savings
Jan 11, 2022
Gender Equality in Savings Groups: Women Cannot Do It Alone
Jan 04, 2022
Designing Cash Programming to Reduce Gender Based Violence (English)
Dec 20, 2021
Designing Cash programming to reduce gender based violence: Part 2 (Arabic)
Dec 15, 2021
Designing Cash to reduce Gender Based Violence (Arabic)
Dec 13, 2021
Get Beyond Your Own Assumptions
Oct 12, 2021
Treat the System, Not the Disease
Aug 27, 2021
We are not superior: lessons on working authentically with local organizations
May 11, 2021
Breaking Inward: Digital Failures and Who Bears the Risk
Apr 30, 2021
Don't Try to Win: Lessons from innovation failures in the humanitarian sector
Apr 09, 2021
Where White Feminism has Failed: Linking women's empowerment with anti-racism
Feb 01, 2021
Study, analyze, adjust quickly: the Bihar Technical Support Program's concurrent measurement and learning approach
Jan 19, 2021
We are not immune: unlearning white supremacy in international development
Dec 07, 2020
Fail Again. Fail Better.
Nov 19, 2020
Data in the time of COVID
Nov 12, 2020
Dream Big, But Move Methodically
Oct 29, 2020
Implementers vs. Allies
Oct 14, 2020
Undocumented and Unafraid: Rethinking Vulnerability
Sep 30, 2020
The Power of Risk: Contingency Plans, Relationships, and other lessons from COVID
Sep 17, 2020
Rumors, Trust, and COVID-19
Aug 13, 2020
A Grain of Truth in Opposition: Launching new programs in difficult times
Jul 29, 2020
CARE of 1000 Papers, Part 2: Improving the way we work with partners in crisis
Jun 18, 2020
CARE of 1000 papers: How our best intentions can hurt local activists
Jun 03, 2020
Designing Data Systems in Crisis: Act Quickly, Iterate Fast, and Think to the Future
Apr 20, 2020
Don't Jump Straight to Digital: What Ebola Taught Us About Trying to Force New Systems in Crisis
Apr 13, 2020
From Supervision to Empowerment: New Ways to Partner for Sustainability (English Version)
Apr 06, 2020
Push Aside the Panic: Thinking Bigger than Just a Health Response to COVID 19
Mar 27, 2020
Expect to Fail: Advocacy, Partnership, and Women Workers' Rights
Mar 25, 2020
Planning a Better COVID-19 Response: How Mistakes from the Ebola Crisis Can Help
Mar 16, 2020
It will never happen in 6 months: Lessons from building financial apps in Uganda
Mar 04, 2020
Just Live It: How to learn from failure in the conservation sector
Feb 28, 2020
From Supervision to Empowerment: New Ways to Partner for Sustainability
Feb 13, 2020
Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Participation and Independence in Evaluations
Jan 29, 2020
Understand Your Entry Points: How Admitting Failure Transforms Policy
Jan 16, 2020
Answering Practical Questions Instead of Academic Ones: How to design research that makes more sustainable programming
Jan 09, 2020
Scale and Replication: How the MENA Region is Using Failure to Create Programs that Last
Jan 02, 2020
9 Things You're Probably Doing Wrong: Lessons from Global Cash Programming
Dec 05, 2019
What's Wrong With Happy Families?
Nov 21, 2019
Design For Everyone, Not for Experts
Oct 30, 2019
Square Pegs and Round Holes: Fitting research to community needs
Oct 17, 2019
Hurry Up and Wait: How Working With Young People in VSLA Changes the Pace of Programming
Oct 09, 2019
Exciting Times: Creating Urban Savings Groups With No Experience
Sep 26, 2019
Mobility, Instability, and Crisis: Creating Savings Groups in Emergencies
Sep 19, 2019
Embracing Imperfection: Rapid Gender Analysis and Knowing You Don't Have All the Answers
Sep 12, 2019
Soyez Courageux et Realiste: Le lecons pour la creation des projets qui marche
Aug 28, 2019
Be Bold and Realistic: Creating space for project plans that will work
Aug 22, 2019
(English Version) Tell Yourself You Don't Know Everything: Lessons Learned and Near Misses from 25+ years of VSLA
Aug 09, 2019
Tell Yourself You Don't Know Everything: Near Misses and Lessons Learned from 25+ Years of VSLA
Aug 01, 2019
Communities Creating Plan B: How Sanitation Approaches Failed in Benin, and Communities Found a Solution
Jul 18, 2019
Three Months to Turn Things Around: When Innovation Becomes Necessity
Jun 26, 2019
The Learning From Failure Report: A Systemic Look at What Goes Wrong
May 20, 2019
Making People Suffer: The Perils of Partnership and Budget Delays
Apr 10, 2019
It's All About Backup: When Experimental Systems Go Wrong
Apr 03, 2019
The Art of Humility: Accepting Reality and Learning From Failure
Mar 27, 2019
9 Ways Not To Build a House: Trying to provide dignified shelter in Ugandan Refugee Camps
Mar 22, 2019
Notes from the cutting edge: How work with youth highlighted gaps in implementation
Feb 28, 2019
Implementation is Not Enough: Applying Lessons from Agriculture Practices that Farmers Won't Use
Feb 19, 2019
Digital Projects and the Danger of Expertise
Feb 13, 2019
Processes and Privilege: How to prioritize innovative local partners in market solutions
Feb 06, 2019