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]

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]

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is a US Government Agency that is responsible for administration of all foreign civilian aid. It was established in the year 1961, and is headquartered at Washington DC. The mission statement of USAID is to ‘to partner to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient, democratic societies while… [Read More]

As an NGO, you have often come across the need to write a case study. This could be either for the purpose of documenting a report, doing a research, developing a proposal or simply because you have come across an interesting incident relating to your work and you would like to capture it in words… [Read More]

As you have asked this question, I assume that you already have an idea about bilateral agencies. If not then, here it is the term bilateral means “two-sided” and refers to organizations that operate directly between two well-defined parties, typically, two countries. A bilateral agency may restrict its interactions to only two countries. However, a… [Read More]

Yes, NGOs need to be on Instagram because the app claims to have one billion users worldwide. Hence, it proves to be a useful tool to share your vision, mission, impact, appeal for donations, call for volunteers, keep in touch with donors and raise awareness. Also, it comes with numerous features and updates which continually keeps… [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]

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]

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]

You might already know that the United States has been the world’s largest provider of bilateral assistance in health. Since 2009, American taxpayers generously have funded more than $100 billion in health assistance, and nearly $70 billion in humanitarian aid, around the world. After the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the U.S. is continuously making… [Read More]