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Yes, The 2021 MIT Water Innovation Prize is offering $35k in innovation grants to student-led teams. The 2021 MIT Water Innovation Prize – a startup competition focused on water innovation that awards innovation grants annually to student-led teams from across the country and internationally. As the main innovation-focused event of MIT Water Club, they help… [Read More]

This is a time for collaborations, partnerships, scales and thus revolutionizing the social development milieu. Especially in the wake of corporate social responsibility and sustainability concerns finding their ways into corporate strategies across countries and geographies; the state, the private sector and the ‘third’ sector are collaborating across spaces to lead to a better, converging… [Read More]

Hello! EDP – Energias de Portugal has recently launched its AE2 CSR Fund Program to contribute to alleviate energy poverty by supporting sustainable and clean energy projects in remote rural areas. These projects, based on sustainable renewable energy solutions, have been contributing to the social, economic and environmental development of the rural communities in developing… [Read More]

Hi, Both are different.  There is often confusion between the Theory of Change and the Logical framework (log frame). The two concepts are closely related but still different. ToC gives the ‘big picture’ in the sense that it brings into focus the complex processes (social, economic, institutional underlying the desired change. Logical Framework, on the… [Read More]

Yes, the German Embassy in Pakistan has launched the Micro Projects Scheme to improve the social and economic development of the most underprivileged groups of society. For years NGOs, local committees, associations, welfare societies, schools and kindergartens have been supported on a non-profit basis. The scheme is solely for organizations based in Pakistan. Companies cannot… [Read More]

The Rights to Water and Sanitation Handbook is a resource designed especially for community groups, human rights NGOs, and rights-based development practitioners and aid workers in adopting or improving their human rights-based approach to advocacy on water and sanitation. It provides innovative and practical suggestions for promoting and protecting the rights to water and sanitation…. [Read More]

Yes! Three development banks: the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) will collaborate to support the Central American countries hit hardest by Hurricane Eta. Representatives of the three development banks met virtually to marshal international resources for the Central American countries. The joint action plan will include short-,… [Read More]

During such unprecedented times, it seems a problem to receive messages in bulk that are not even reliable. Before answering your question I would like to suggest that never share such kind of misinformation, what you can do on your part is that stop-check-delete thus, you are stopping the chain of misinformation then and there…. [Read More]

Risks are uncertain events or conditions, that if happens, may hamper the project goal and objectives, or delay the project activities and deliverables; depending upon type and the period for which the risk remains active.  In a project proposal, donors want to know about the possible risks and its mitigation plan, as they would like… [Read More]

Yes! But before diving deep into your question, first, let us learn about accountability. Accountability refers to an organization being answerable to a third party. It relates to the obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities, accept responsibility for them, and to disclose the results transparently.  It is a vast term… [Read More]