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Making Backbone Organizations Work
Getting people from across the public, private, and civil sectors to effectively work together comes down to one fundamental question: how do you get people to work with you who don’t work for you? Humans excel at getting people to work with us who do work for us....
Enough with all the Cost-Plus Contracting Already
Tackling 3 Myths Around Cost-Plus Contracting from our CEO and Master Collaborator, Richard Crespin I’ve worked in government contracting on-and-off for nearly three decades, supporting federal defense, intel, and civilian agencies. And in all that time, I...
Ebola Tech Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) Inter-Operability Co-Design
CollaborateUp supported USAID to convene a cross-sector group of highly technical information systems developers, on-the-ground implementers, end users, and donors to fundamentally reconceive how all these parties manage the interoperability of systems and data across...
VukaNow Combating Wildlife Crime
The recent and rapid increase in the illegal trade in wildlife is a manmade international disaster that threatens the survival of endangered species in southern Africa and is a conservation, environmental and natural resource crisis. After helping USAID/Southern...
Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES)
The illegal trade in wildlife by highly organized criminal gangs, forms one of the largest black markets in the world threatening biodiversity, human health and safety, and global security. These gangs use logistics- and transport-intensive activities, co-opting the...
Paycor Problem Solving Course
Paycor, a human resources software and online payroll services firm based in Ohio, had outgrown its standard way of problem solving, especially when multiple teams were involved. With more teams and more leaders, leadership was searching for an innovative, engaging...
PYXERA Global Engagement Forum
PYXERA Global and CollaborateUp work together annually to jointly program the Global Engagement Forum on ‘solvable development problems.’ This partnership began in 2017, and CollaborateUp has jointly designed the Forum as an invitation-only event, where participants...
Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT)
USAID, the Walton Family Foundation, the Moore Foundation, and the Packard Foundation recognized that changing laws and regulations in global fisheries management and seafood traceability posed a challenge for fishers, fishing companies, and importing and exporting...
Inclusive Workforce Development in Indonesia
CollaborateUp worked with the USAID mission and the Government of Indonesia to design and facilitate a co-creation/co-design process on workforce development where more than 100 executives participated, representing academia, civil society, the national and provincial...