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Developments is DAI’s newsletter. News and feature articles, opinion pieces, and interviews highlight DAI projects and offer insight into global development issues of the day.

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eunice heredia-ortiz-and-guillermo-jimenez

Tags: governance, anti-corruption, public-financial-management

1 day ago | 5 min read

Want Better Domestic Revenue Mobilization? Build a Digital Taxpayer Registration Tool

The taxpayer registry database—and, more importantly, the quality of the information stored in the registry—is fundamental in supporting the rest of the core tax administration functions and instrumental to successful domestic revenue mobilization. 

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itai makanda, Chief of Party, Resilience through Agriculture in South Sudan Activity

15 days ago | 8 min read

Community Seed Production: A Pathway for Building Resilience in South Sudan

Any economic development work in an agro-based community such as South Sudan—where approximately 85 percent of households depend on crop cultivation—must emphasize the quality of the seed supply.  

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marise montrose

29 days ago | 5 min read

Investing in Ethnically Diverse Communities to Restore and Preserve Forests in Vietnam

The USAID Sustainable Forest Management project works to restore and enhance Vietnam’s vital forest ecosystems. Empowering the ethnic minorities residing in forest areas—especially local women—is an essential part of this work.

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How Traditional USAID Partners Can Support New Local Partners

DAI’s Digital Frontiers project—a global initiative to identify and scale successful digital development approaches—has tested various approaches to help local organizations overcome the challenges of receiving and implementing government funding.

stephanie creed

6 min read

Building Effective Monitoring Networks: A Locally Led Approach to Fighting Climate Change

People are a vital element in maintaining the Amazon as a carbon sink, to the benefit of the rest of the planet, but the threats to their lands and lives are constant. Drug trafficking and organized crime, for example, have increasingly degraded and deforested the jungle.

shannon vasamsetti

9 min read

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: An Inclusive Agenda in Nepal

In Nepal and other less-developed countries, tackling water, sanitation, and hygiene problems as a crosscutting issue leads to advances across more than one Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).  

pralhad gairapipli

7 min read

Participatory Public Financial Management Reinforces Democratic Norms and Values

Even in imperfect democracies, strengthening norms that promote participation, engagement, and inclusion can build up the norms needed for democracy to thrive over time.  

janine mans

6 min read

How an Approach to Crisis in Jordan Transformed into Sustained Institutional Change

How the Project Management Unit revolutionized Jordan’s approach to crisis response and came to serve as a model for long-term institutional resilience and reform in the Kingdom of Jordan. 

anthony pusatory

10 min read

Defending Ukraine’s Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Threats

Modern wars reach far beyond trenches and tanks to include political, informational, and cyberattacks designed to weaken the opponent and diminish its ability to resist. Peacemaking, reconstruction, and development work must account for all types of destabilizing efforts.

lana ramer

8 min read

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