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.
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Who is it working for? The messy realities of AI in practice.
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May 11, 2026 |
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Why AgTech Startups fail
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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What you're probably doing wrong with AI: Failures, Lessons, and capturing 60 years of data
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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How is your smartphone like HIV?
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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The app and the enterprise: when not to build new digital tools
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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We Built a Women-Centered GPT. It Flopped – and Taught Us Everything
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Beyond Money
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Nothing to Lose: Garment Factories in Alexandria
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Thrive
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Failing By Default
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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What the market wants
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Scary Conversations
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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What's in a Logo?
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Learning from Humiliation, Shame, and Failure
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May 16, 2024 |
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A Fearless Climate
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May 07, 2024 |
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Transforming Lives Amidst Growing Security Challenges in Mali
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Have I Solved the Problem: why innovation labs fail
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Moving from publication to action
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Start at the roots: how to turn around failure
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Notes from a Failure Summit
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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A Magical Example of Adolescent Girls Leading
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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There was no blueprint: trying to make COVID-19 vaccines fast and fair
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Too Many Trainings
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Reimagining IMAGINE
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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The New Usual: Supporting Frontline Healthworkers as a goal, not a tool
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Connecting Learning to Decisions
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Cozy with the context
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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It is possible: Savings groups in emergencies
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Getting Rigor Right
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Balancing Risk and Agility: The benefits and challenges of 78 years of organizational expertise
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Avoiding Hothouse Flowers
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Telling the Truth in Love
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May 23, 2023 |
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Don’t Feed the Zombies
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May 08, 2023 |
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Life Happens: Balancing Rigor and Lived Truth
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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From $2 to $20: getting more impact for the dollar in international development
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Why Resilience Beats Sustainability
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Stop Analyzing and Act
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Perception is Everything
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Get Over It: Learning from Failure 2022
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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The Data Belongs to Them
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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We should not be a burden
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Always Have a Plan B: How to Assess Risk within Partnerships
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Know Your Partners
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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What we think we know: why cash didn’t work without addressing GBV
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Myths about Flexibility
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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The Chance To Choose Something Different: Crypto, Cash, and Refugees
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May 26, 2022 |
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Don’t Be Afraid to Stop When It’s Not Working
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May 02, 2022 |
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Reflection and Risk: Lessons from Girl-Led Activism
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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More listening: Taking feedback to create and use more effective standards
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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It’s not a choice: Connecting Cash and GBV
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Move faster: Finding ways to support GBV Survivors with Cash Services (English)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Move faster: Finding ways to support GBV Survivors with Cash Services (Arabic)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Efficient, Effective, or Inexpensive: Looking at Cost Efficiency for Impact, Not Just Savings
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Designing Cash Programming to Reduce Gender Based Violence (English)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Designing Cash programming to reduce gender based violence: Part 2 (Arabic)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Designing Cash to reduce Gender Based Violence (Arabic)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Get Beyond Your Own Assumptions
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Treat the System, Not the Disease
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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We are not superior: lessons on working authentically with local organizations
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May 11, 2021 |
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Breaking Inward: Digital Failures and Who Bears the Risk
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Don't Try to Win: Lessons from innovation failures in the humanitarian sector
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Study, analyze, adjust quickly: the Bihar Technical Support Program's concurrent measurement and learning approach
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Fail Again. Fail Better.
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Data in the time of COVID
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Dream Big, But Move Methodically
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Implementers vs. Allies
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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The Power of Risk: Contingency Plans, Relationships, and other lessons from COVID
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Rumors, Trust, and COVID-19
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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A Grain of Truth in Opposition: Launching new programs in difficult times
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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CARE of 1000 Papers, Part 2: Improving the way we work with partners in crisis
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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CARE of 1000 papers: How our best intentions can hurt local activists
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Designing Data Systems in Crisis: Act Quickly, Iterate Fast, and Think to the Future
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Don't Jump Straight to Digital: What Ebola Taught Us About Trying to Force New Systems in Crisis
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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From Supervision to Empowerment: New Ways to Partner for Sustainability (English Version)
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Push Aside the Panic: Thinking Bigger than Just a Health Response to COVID 19
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Expect to Fail: Advocacy, Partnership, and Women Workers' Rights
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Planning a Better COVID-19 Response: How Mistakes from the Ebola Crisis Can Help
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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It will never happen in 6 months: Lessons from building financial apps in Uganda
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Just Live It: How to learn from failure in the conservation sector
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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From Supervision to Empowerment: New Ways to Partner for Sustainability
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Participation and Independence in Evaluations
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Understand Your Entry Points: How Admitting Failure Transforms Policy
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Answering Practical Questions Instead of Academic Ones: How to design research that makes more sustainable programming
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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Scale and Replication: How the MENA Region is Using Failure to Create Programs that Last
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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9 Things You're Probably Doing Wrong: Lessons from Global Cash Programming
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Square Pegs and Round Holes: Fitting research to community needs
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Hurry Up and Wait: How Working With Young People in VSLA Changes the Pace of Programming
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Exciting Times: Creating Urban Savings Groups With No Experience
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Mobility, Instability, and Crisis: Creating Savings Groups in Emergencies
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Soyez Courageux et Realiste: Le lecons pour la creation des projets qui marche
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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Be Bold and Realistic: Creating space for project plans that will work
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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(English Version) Tell Yourself You Don't Know Everything: Lessons Learned and Near Misses from 25+ years of VSLA
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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Tell Yourself You Don't Know Everything: Near Misses and Lessons Learned from 25+ Years of VSLA
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Communities Creating Plan B: How Sanitation Approaches Failed in Benin, and Communities Found a Solution
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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Three Months to Turn Things Around: When Innovation Becomes Necessity
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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The Learning From Failure Report: A Systemic Look at What Goes Wrong
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May 20, 2019 |
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Making People Suffer: The Perils of Partnership and Budget Delays
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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It's All About Backup: When Experimental Systems Go Wrong
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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The Art of Humility: Accepting Reality and Learning From Failure
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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9 Ways Not To Build a House: Trying to provide dignified shelter in Ugandan Refugee Camps
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Mar 22, 2019 |