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  • Empowering Change Makers to Communicate Better

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    Our Future Challenges blogger Ruth Aine Tindyebwa from Uganda was invited as a social media coach by the Siemens Foundation to join the foundation’s communication workshop for non-profit organizations in Jinja, Uganda. In 2013 the Siemens Stiftung (foundation) held the first ever empowering people. Award. The main aim of the […]

  • Are NGOs in Cambodia Getting the Right Results?

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    This article was originally drafted by Rob Jamieson and Indochina Research for the newsletter “I-Light” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Non-government organizations have been a major feature of Cambodian life for over two decades, having a profound influence on the county’s development. Yet Chum Samnang, […]

  • Profiles from “Providing Stepping Stones to Opportunities”

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    This article was originally drafted by Johannes Loh and 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. The booming economic development of Laos does not automatically improve access to services—a major issue […]

  • Thriving together in the economic storm

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    The current economic crisis has no doubt affected every country in one way or another. I can only speak of my own experience. As I described in my previous blog, many citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina are dependent upon remittances from their relatives living in more developed parts of the world.  The 1992-1995 war displaced […]