Edna Kilusu is an international student from the Maasai ethnic group in Tanzania. She is currently a Communication and Marketing Student Intern at Posner Center member Orkeeswa, and studying Psychology and Anthropology at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA. Read about her experiences in this article, originally published in Terralingua’s Landscape Magazine, vol. 8 “What?” my friend… Read more »
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Measuring Collaboration
The Posner Center for International Development model is based on collaboration. It was conceived by a group that believed in networking, collaboration, and the positive impact that can result from connecting different organizations that exist within the same sector. The Posner Center represents almost 200 organizations, including nonprofits, private enterprises, university departments, consultants, service… Read more »
Three Tips to Get Started Working with USAID
For New USAID Partners Securing funds from USAID can be resource-intensive and highly competitive, but getting a piece of the $21 billion the agency awarded last year can be well worth the effort. At AidKonekt, we want to make it easier for new partners to enter and grow in the USAID market. Our mission is… Read more »
2020 Goalmakers Report
The Posner Center was proud to be Denver’s host organization for Goalmakers 2020, a nation-wide initiative to bring together practitioners from NGOs, companies, foundations, and universities to advance the #SustainableDevelopmentGoals (#SDGs) given the severe setbacks around the world from Covid-19. Throughout 4Q2020, roundtable discussions and public events centered on individual SDGs were held in seven… Read more »
Agricultural Market Ecosystem Collaboration
Partnering to Expand an Innovative Inclusive Agricultural Market Ecosystem Model: Hilltribe Organics and iDE In the ever-evolving landscape of international development, NGOs and social enterprises have now fully recognized the potential to increase the overall impact of their support to businesses and communities in historically marginalized communities and demographics through strategic partnerships. By working together,… Read more »
Rebuilding and Transitioning to More Equitable Global Systems After COVID-19
In their annual Goalkeepers Report, Bill and Melinda Gates noted that after decades of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, progress has stalled, and we are in fact going backwards on nearly all of the indicators. We are now in a situation where we need to restart and rebuild systems and solutions to get the… Read more »
LISTEN: The USAID Response to COVID-19 W/ Dr. Ken Staley
We were honored to have been joined by Dr. Ken Staley, Executive Director of the COVID-19 Task Force for USAID, last week. Dr. Staley took the time out of his insanely busy schedule to fill us in on how USAID has responded to the pandemic, and how they’ve pivoted and re-prioritized aid startegies to help… Read more »
Collaboration to Increase Transparency in the Coffee Value Chain
Check out this story, written by Emily Knapp of iDE, describing the progress of a collaboration between iDE (International Development Enterprises) and Bext360 – Supply Chain Digitization from Origin to Retail, recipients of our 2019 International Collaboration Fund Arrow Innovation in Technology Grant. Their work in Honduras with Blockchain is helping increase transparency and equity across the… Read more »
Educate! Leverages Distance Learning To Combat School Closures
Posner Center tenant, Educate!, works with schools and governments in Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya to help support and implement an innovative skills-based educational model that is contextually adaptive to the places in which they work. The Educate! Model is designed to deliver sustainable, lasting change by working directly within existing education systems, integrating on a… Read more »
A Tale of Two Buildings
On two different continents sit two similar buildings, the Kili Hub and the Posner Center for International Development. They are both unique and innovative places within their entire countries of Tanzania and the United States. These buildings are filled with passionate people working for many different NGOs that, collectively, are improving countless lives around… Read more »
The Women’s Bakery: Providing Opportunity and Nutrition In Rwanda
Posner Center tenant, The Women’s Bakery, is a social enterprise with three wholly owned and operated bakeries in Rwanda, a franchise pilot in Uganda, and three other trained, but independently-owned, bakeries in East Africa. Their modus operandi is about as old as human civilization itself. Historically, the domestication of wheat and the advent… Read more »
Symposium 2020: Collaboration for Local Capacity Development
Five Collaboration Principles for Local Capacity Development Dr. Ann Hudock, President and Chief Executive Officer of Counterpart International, started her plenary speech by addressing the fact that after a full day and a half of intriguing presentations, engaging conversations and shared wrestling with big ideas in collaboration in international development, it’s safe to say many… Read more »
Dr. Kasujja offers his take on the state of refugees in Uganda
On May 23rd, the Posner Center hosted Dr. Roscoe Kasujja, Director of Mental Health at Makerere University’s School of Psychology, for a discussion on Uganda’s internationally acclaimed “open border policy.” Dr. Kasujja offered sobering words about refugees in the northern provinces and West Nile region of the country, as well as the disparity in… Read more »
emBolden Alliances
Questioning partnerships that create value Posner’s Symposium 2019 explored collaboration from all angles, including the critique that global partnerships are highly touted, yet often fail to produce. Dr. Neena Jain, Founding Director of emBOLDen Alliances, argued that this is often due to a failure of durable support to locally-led approaches in development and humanitarian emergencies…. Read more »
Tackling a Tough Topic with a Winning Format
Symposium 2019 Recap It can be very uncomfortable to question the very soul and guiding principle of the Posner Center Community, but we did just that at the final event of our first annual Symposium. The Oxford-style debate pitted two teams against one another as they argued for and against the position that collaboration is… Read more »