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Mobile clinics: Alternative healthcare delivery
Written by Searchlight Process
This article was originally drafted by 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. The settlers of rural areas in Africa will no longer find it very difficult to access health […]
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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.
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Stopping the violence in Jakarta’s slums
Written by Searchlight Process
This article was originally drafted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for the newsletter “Asian Trends Monitoring Bulletin” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Government agencies and other organizations concerned with poverty alleviation typically focus on physical and […]
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Mobile Phones Advancing Women’s Healthcare
Written by Searchlight Process
This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Horizons” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. In recent years, mobile phones have been increasingly used to advance development efforts in women’s healthcare in Bangladesh. Given the […]
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Ajegunle.org: Overcoming Poverty through ICT
Written by Searchlight Process
This article was originally drafted by 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. Market in Abuja, Nigeria (By Zouzou Wizman(Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons) Ajegunle, trapped between the docklands […]
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The Growth of Megacities: Exacerbating Future Water Problems
Written by Searchlight Process
This article was originally drafted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy for Issue 15 of the newsletter “Asian Trends Monitoring Bulletin” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Jakarta, taken from Istiqlal mosque Jakarta panoramic view around Medan Merdeka […]
