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Richard’s Reflections: Conversation Facilitation & Collaboration

CollaborateUp CEO’s Insights on the Latest Trends Shaping Our Industry Do you need a facilitator for your multi-stakeholder collaboration? Collaboration sounds like a “kindergarten lesson”, right? Don’t eat paste, don’t run with scissors, and play nice with...

Richard’s Reflections: Blended Finance & Co-Funding

by Elsa Bassett | News, Uncategorized

CollaborateUp CEO’s Insights on the Latest Trends Shaping Our Industry Why Free Money is Bad: Co-creative blended finance and the future of development In his landmark work The Mystery of Capital, the renowned Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto identified one...

Richard’s Reflections: Advancing DEIA: Best Practices & Lessons Learned

by Elsa Bassett | News, Uncategorized

CollaborateUp CEO’s Insights on the Latest Trends Shaping Our Industry What have you seen as the biggest challenges thus far for effective DEIA implementation in international development work and what can USAID do to strike a balance with the at-times competing...

Richard’s Reflections: Climate Change, Conservation, and Collective Action

by Lia Russell | News, Uncategorized

CollaborateUp CEO’s Insights on the Latest Trends Shaping Our Industry Where do the biggest challenges and opportunities lie for collective action to combat climate change and support conservation efforts? How does CollaborateUp’s work fit into this...

VukaNow SPARCCie 4: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Combating Wildlife Crime

by Lia Russell | News, Uncategorized

(Black rhino in Namibia; Baron Reznik via Flickr) As part of CollaborateUp’s work on USAID’s VukaNow Activity, a multi-stakeholder partnership focused on combating wildlife crime (CWC) across Southern Africa, CollaborateUp recently designed and facilitated a...

Richard’s Corner: Harm Reduction

by Lia Russell | News, Resources, Uncategorized

CollaborateUp CEO’s Insights on the Latest Trends Shaping Our Industry How might someone determine whether or not to take a harm reduction approach? When does it work and when won’t it? We like to say, “Fall in love with the problem before you fall in love with...