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Searchlight Process

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Research and Records Unit has undertaken an innovative approach to addressing this challenge by generating applicable intelligence that emerges from a forward-looking, on-the-ground perspective throughout Africa, Asia, and the Americas. It is known as the “Searchlight” function—a group of forward-looking, regionally-focused horizon scanning and trend monitoring grantees that conduct regular, ongoing scanning for novel ideas, research results, and "clues" to where the world is evolving.
  • Green Jobs in India

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    This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Insider” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Increasing interest in protecting the environment and combating climate change combined with the challenge to provide employment to a burgeoning […]

  • Organic Agric Summer School Enhances Farmers’ Capacities

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    This article was originally drafted by Terfa Hemen and the Centre for Democracy and Development for the newsletter “West Africa Insight” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Dearth of skills and the capacity to apply techniques in modern agriculture is among the […]

  • Powerful Writing in Slum Jagatthu

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    This article was originally drafted by Lina Sonne and the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Insider” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Nobody wants to read about poverty, popular Indian news media seems to cry. By going by Mumbai’s […]