Sanjay Fernandes | September 16, 2020 Decades of armed conflict and violence have silenced residents in Colombia. In 2014, SOLE Colombia began a project to break that silence. SOLE (Self-Organized Learning Environments) is part of a global movement to use technology to empower groups to learn, collaborate, and most importantly, to solve real-life problems! In…
Meg VanDeusen | September 9, 2020 Share this: To build strong feedback loops, we need thoughtful and accessible ways to hear from our constituents and make sense of what we’re learning. Whether it’s an SMS texting app that allows us to reach constituents directly or an advanced dashboard that helps us pick out insights from…
Doussouba Konate | August 31, 2020 Pour lire en français, cliquez ici. Battling misinformation is always a challenge. It’s even more of a challenge if the population you serve has varying degrees of literacy and uses a variety of channels to access information. At Accountability Lab Mali, we are tackling this challenge head-on as we…
Ilse Berenice Garibay Dueñas | August 27, 2020 With an uptick in global hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic, many families are more worried about providing nutrition for their children than they are about the virus itself. I’ve seen this dynamic play out in my work on the frontlines of nutrition support in Mexico. I work…
Sophie Wang | August 20, 2020 Its smell brings back fond memories. Its offer is a sign of love. Its taste is the symbol of an entire culture. Yes, I’m talking about food! But why am I talking about food on the feedback blog? It turns out, we can learn a lot about feedback from…
Farah Fahd Abdulaziz Al-Wazeer | August 18, 2020 Since 2005, The Small And Micro Enterprise Promotion Service (SMEPS) has fostered entrepreneurship and financial sustainability in Yemen. We do this by linking development and humanitarian projects together in order to create sustainable jobs that influence social good. As such, we strengthen food supply chains and associated…
Chely Esguerra | August 6, 2020 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization that aims to give support to those who are affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence. Its institutional strategy is anchored on the statement “putting people at the center”. One of the ways it does…
Natasha Abrol | August 3, 2020 When the Black Lives Matter protests began this year, my university’s debate union, a community that never misses an opportunity to talk about its commitment to social justice, did not hesitate to send out a letter from the coaches committing to do more to support anti-racism efforts. When students…
Melanie Pinet and Carmen Leon-Himmelstine | July 30, 2020 International development research is often guilty of perpetuating colonial power dynamics. These dynamics show up when researchers design studies with a western gaze, fail to support local leadership in carrying out the study, or neglect to communicate the results of research back to the communities who…
Jack Rudnick | July 28, 2020 What does feedback in government look like? The first answer people often come up with is elections. Elections serve as a form of citizen feedback every two, four, or six years that put boundaries on what a politician can and cannot do. But there is also a less appreciated…