A Family Affair: Father and Son Volunteer for Farmer-to-Farmer
In the past three years, I have completed 17 volunteer assignments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. With 20 years …
ACDI/VOCA and InterAction NGO Community Announce CEO Pledge on Preventing Sexual Abuse, Exploitation, and Harassment
Today, ACDI/VOCA joined InterAction, the largest alliance of U.S. nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in every developing country in the world, …
Energy Opportunities for Agriculture Systems and Food Security
Promoting Energy Access, Efficiency, and Reliability Background Narrative Energy Opportunities for Agriculture Systems and Food Security (Energy for Ag) is …
Introducing the Monitoring and Evaluation Bullet Chart
This edition of Data Digest is for the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) people out there, or monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), …
Data 101 Part 3: Taking Your Data to the Next Level
If you missed the first and second posts in the Data Digest series, I recommend you start there. In these …
Balancing the Systems: Making Food and Market Systems Work for Nutrition
If you work in international development, you have probably heard a lot about food systems lately. The buzz about food …
Data 101 Part 2: Quality
If you missed the first post in the Data Digest series, I recommend you start here, with the beginning of …
Data 101 Part 1: Management
Data management can be tough, especially for those who are less numbers-oriented. I’ve been working with data for 15 years, …
ACDI/VOCA’s Data Platform Streamlines Project Management
Data science is changing business around the world. Can it also transform development? ACDI/VOCA is developing a technology stack, or …
Using a Theory of Change for Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation: Guidance and Methodology
This document presents guidance, tools and other resources to help an organization implement a ToC based project including: Reviewing and …
“Facilitating Behavior Change” Virtual Conference Delves into Social Behavior Change and Market Systems
Changing behaviors—especially multiple behaviors across market actors—can be challenging. Predictably, this means complex market systems are also difficult to transform. …
