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Developments is DAI’s newsletter, offering feature articles, research, opinion pieces, and interviews on DAI projects and global development issues. Digital@DAI is our blog on what we're learning in the field of digital acceleration.

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christy owen, kate heuisler

Tags: climate, environment-2

10 hours ago | 8 min read

Establishing a Benefit Sharing Mechanism: Lessons from Mozambique

Establishing a community benefit-sharing mechanism, whether part of a carbon project or, as in Mozambique, in the oil and gas sector, presents numerous challenges. The private sector moves forward quickly and has the capacity and systems to easily overwhelm a less savvy community.

Developments

alice brindley, bella brittan

14 days ago | 4 min read

How Data Analysis, Community Engagement, and GIS Delivered a Reliable Water Source to an Afghan Community

By desilting the central stretch of the Char Dara canal in Afghanistan, a DAI project worked to improve agricultural resilience, bring economic stability, and secure a reliable water source for the thousands of farmers who rely on the canal for their livelihoods. 

Developments

gareth e-davies

19 days ago | 6 min read

The Realities of Providing Cost-Share Grants to the Private Sector

This is the second in a series of three articles that examine market systems development within refugee contexts and how grants catalyze change and innovation. It explores the realities of providing cost-share grants to private sector actors.

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New Paper Explores How Pakistan Can Better Manage and Benefit from Hill Torrent Flooding

A recent paper, based on key stakeholder discussions held earlier in 2024 in Pakistan, presents recommendations for policies for managing hill torrents.

darren saywell

5 min read

Developments

The “Theory” of Grant Making for Private Sector Actors

This is the first in a series of three articles that look at the intersection of market systems development and humanitarian relief and how grants are used to catalyze change and innovation among private sector actors. This article considers the theory of grant-making.

gareth e davies

4 min read

Developments

Raising Public Awareness to Tackle Environmental Crimes in the Peruvian Amazon

Studies carried out by the USAID Prevent project in 2020 revealed that one of the most dangerous threats to the Peruvian Amazon was the lack of awareness of its problems. Most Peruvians didn't see illegal logging, mining, and wildlife trafficking as priorities or even crimes.

kjeld nielsen

7 min read

Developments

How to Get Humanitarian and Development Actors to Work Together for Refugees

Earlier this month, following the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development seminar in Nairobi, DAI and the International Labour Organization (ILO) hosted an event to share perspectives on the potential for applying market systems work in protracted refugee settings.

nandi hall, anne brady

5 min read

Developments

Finding Technological Solutions for Forest Management

Peruvian stakeholders recognized that the journey toward a better organized and more sustainable forestry sector requires broad inter-institutional collaboration, effective technological tools, and large-scale capacity-building efforts.

kjeld nielsen

5 min read

Developments

Integrating Market Systems Development and the Graduation Approach in Uganda

At the heart of the SMILES project is its integration of the graduation approach and MSD. The graduation approach focuses on structured interventions that provide ultra-poor households with the support they need to escape poverty.

katie vaughan

7 min read

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