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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...

Richard’s Corner: Localization

by Lia Russell | News, Resources, Uncategorized

CollaborateUp CEO’s Insights on the Latest Trends Shaping Our Industry What role does localization play in CollaborateUp’s work? We define “localization” as giving local people and communities authority and agency to set priorities and make decisions...

NEW: The CollaborateUp Institute Releases Request for Proposal (RFP) for Non-Profit Management Companies (NMC)

by Elsa Knapp | Featured Projects, News, Worldwide Projects

In 2021, CollaborateUp decided to found the CollaborateUp Institute with a mission to research and establish the evidence for collaboration in complex situations in service of a vision to create a world in which more people can...

USAID Acquisition and Assistance (A&A) Strategy and NPI Case Study Analysis

by Owen Murphy | Featured Projects, News, Worldwide Projects

CollaborateUp currently assists USAID’s M/OAA Strategy Team in its stocktaking review of the 2018 Acquisition & Assistance Strategy. We created awareness and knowledge among Agency staff about the results and progress to date under the current A&A Strategy and...

LIVE ON DEMAND | Practical Not Magical: Harm Reduction and Public Health

by Owen Murphy | News

Silver bullets. Big bangs. Miracles. In the search for answers to our pressing problems — from climate change to global pandemics — people have hoped for magical solutions that would wish them away with the snap of a finger. In reality, we need practical solutions...

News Literacy and Misinformation/Disinformation in the Era of COVID-19

by Owen Murphy | News

Download the full report here As the world grapples with a raging pandemic, information literacy — the capacity to critically evaluate content for its quality and usefulness — is crucial to survival and recovery. Disinformation and misinformation erode trust in public...

LIVE ON DEMAND | The Chief’s Forum: The Next 100 Days of the Biden Administration

by Richard Crespin | News

As the nation looks forward to a waning global pandemic, what issues and challenges will shape the next 100 days of the Biden Administration? Urgent priorities spanning the economy, public health, innovation, and science will need an “all hands-on deck”...

How to Stop Zoom Zone-Out: Lessons from VukaNow

by Caroline Tolbert | Featured Projects, News, Resources, Worldwide Projects

Written By Belinda Glenn – Chemonics Beth Skorochod- CollaborateUp One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, with the shift to virtual engagements looking more permanent and increasing levels of “Zoom fatigue” being reported, empowering team members with the...

Honey Bee Health Coalition (HBHC)

by Owen Murphy | Featured Projects, Worldwide Projects

One in three bites of food require pollination. Over $85 billion in North American agriculture relies on honey bees. Commercial beekeepers face a multitude of problems in maintaining their hives so they can provide this invaluable service to the food chain. At the...