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The Challenge of Telling Good Stories: How Helpful Is "Data Visualisation" for Development Practitioners?

Development practitioners are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their work is relevant and it contributes to sustainably addressing poverty and unemployment. For this, they report and tell stories to a range of stakeholders.

Written by Amar Numanović, Zenebe B. Uraguchi - 13. October 2017

Using a Systemic Approach to Analyse the BioTrade Market System

There are concerns about an overemphasis on economic growth in systemic approaches to programme design and management (also known as market systems development – MSD), which many people feel pays insufficient attention to, or even willfully ignores the environment. 

Written by Andrew Wilson, Robbie Hogervorst, Zenebe B. Uraguchi - 29. September 2017

What Does It Take for a Market Systems Approach to ‘Leave No One Behind’? Learning from Samriddhi

Written by Jodie Thorpe, Zenebe B. Uraguchi - 17. September 2017

Eucalyptus Oil as a Source of Hope

Eucalyptus oil fetches a high price in Kathmandu, being used as a raw material for a variety of products in Nepal and elsewhere.

Written by Jane Carter - 18. August 2017

Food Security, Climate Change and Survival on the Bolivian High Plateau

Health-minded consumers around the world consider quinoa as superfood. But the indigenous Aymara people had almost completely given up on growing it.

Written by Jane Carter - 24. July 2017

Skilled and Ready to Fly

Helvetas trains young women and men in Sri Lanka who are full of hope to find work and financial independence abroad.

Written by Jane Carter - 17. July 2017