Symposium 2019 Recap By Joanne Lu The development community is filled with organizations and individuals all trying to tackle the world’s most pressing issues. But how much more could we accomplish if we worked together? It seems like a basic question, but one the Posner Center for International Development believes isn’t being asked enough…. Read more »

2019 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT Collaboration is hard. It can be messy. It can fail. But to be transformative – to create change – we must be willing to take risks. The Posner Center for International Development believes that collaboration has the power to transform global development. Collaboration enables creative approaches, builds bridges across disciplines, and addresses… Read more »

Award Announcement We’re living in an era of increasingly complex and pressing environmental issues. The Posner Center believes that partnerships and collaboration are necessary to address these deeply entrenched challenges. The International Collaboration Fund supports innovative partnerships within the Posner Center community, leveraging the power of collaboration for greater impact. Recognizing the importance of collaborative… Read more »

Hear From Joan Parker, Leader in Collaboration, at Symposium 2019 All people have the right and the ability to determine their own destinies. That’s the founding belief of Counterpart International and the driving force behind their leadership in local capacity development. For 53 years, long before it was popular, they have worked against the dominant development framework of externally driven solutions and worked with communities… Read more »

Monitoring and evaluation can be challenging for all organizations. As organizations grow and change, so must their systems for evaluation. Prior to this year, Engineers Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA) had a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system in place, but they were ready to take it to the next level. They wanted to create a… Read more »

Lessons Shared by Educate!   Implementing development work at scale. Everyone talks about it. Funders are pushing for it. The SDGs demand it. But what do we mean by scale? What does it look like for a once-small NGO to scale their operations and impact? These questions of scale are prevalent in the Posner Center… Read more »

Stronger Together: Authentic Girls’ Empowerment Across Borders What does it look like to create a global engagement experience that benefits all participants? Many global education programs make claims of authenticity and community connection, yet are often designed primarily to meet the needs of students in the Global North. With funding from the Posner Center’s International… Read more »

Arrow Electronics Invests in International Collaboration Fund The Posner Center is pleased to announce a new partnership with Colorado’s largest company, Arrow Electronics. Arrow provides products, services, and solutions to industry and commercial user of electrical components and enterprise computing solutions. Directly serving over 80 countries, they are truly a global company. We’ve partnered to… Read more »

Introducing the matched mentors and mentees The Posner Center has launched a new Mentoring Program an annual program—which we intend to significantly scale and expand in the coming years — that will create dialogue and exchange of ideas, and provide new opportunities for learning and engagement in our community. The Posner Center Mentoring Program cultivates the professional development of… Read more »

Kimetrica’s Journey with Population Explorer                           When the Indian Ocean Tsunami struck on December 26, 2004, many in the humanitarian sector were off celebrating the holidays. They quickly mobilized, but lacked basic data to inform the response, including an accurate estimate of the… Read more »

Mwanaisha Said Salim Selected as Community Health Educator Africa School Assistance Project (ASAP) and Maji Safi Group (MSG) were awarded a 2018 International Collaboration Fund grant from the Posner Center to incorporate MSG’s WASH curriculum into ASAP’s Kupanda Project leadership program with girls. Both organizations have been working together in the US and in Tanzania… Read more »

Development Dialogue with IDinsight IDinsight, a leader in using rigorous evaluation to transform development practice, presented at the Posner Center’s recent Development Dialogue. IDinsight’s Strategy and Internal Measurement Lead, Harlan Downs-Tepper, discussed creating an evidence-based mindset, beginning with a high-level discussion on when and why to evaluate, followed by case studies of IDinsight’s work in… Read more »