4. Invests real resources in standing up what comes out of the process, whether those funding / sanctioning like it or not. Power likes to hold on to power. Real structural solutions will challenge that. So do as much as you can to negotiate resources / signoffs in advance.

What factors actually impact women in #mining in Guinea? DG’s recent assessment & Womeninmining’s pilot index provides stakeholders w/evidence to implement sustainable solutions for improving women’s conditions in the industrial & artisanal mining industry. go.developmentgateway.org/WIM-EN

The 6 month mark in any sustained crisis is always difficult. We have all adjusted to this "new normal", but might now feel like we're running out of steam. Yet, at best, we are only 1/3 the way through this marathon. How can we keep going? THREAD /x

Call me an econ nerd, but this is such a compelling way to think about this. The social ills from social media are because the industry pushes all the nasty externalities onto society. We absorb it so they don't have to.

This comes down to humility in your information needs. Decisions and functions at each level require different data. Lack of understanding of what data are actually *needed* leads to a reporting/collection burden that all too often falls on the program-level

We’re pleased to announce our new Development Gateway website! Thanks to Friendly Design Co., this refresh helps to show our work, recognize our team & more clearly explain what DG does. Follow along as we highlight what we’re most excited about on the new site!⤵️ developmentgateway.org

Stacy Abrams had the governorship of Georgia stolen from her by a corrupt Secretary of State who abused his office to suppress the vote and hand himself the election What did she do? She rolled up her sleeves, registered *800,000* new voters and is about to flip her state blue.

Slack: Ditch the inbox! *all teams migrate away from email as communication* Slack: *goes down* Me: you son of a gun.

Your state already has its own Stacey Abrams. Every state does. Find them. Listen to them. Trust them. Invest in them. Follow their lead.

Love this. Yes. Indigenous Knowledge Is The Missing Piece In Disaster Risk Reduction globalgiving.org/learn/indigeno…

Legitimately SO excited to be a judge for this year's Emory Global Health/GA Tech hackathon. #bornforthis

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Very excited to share the ✨new and improved✨ Urban Institute Spatial Equity Data Tool launched today! The tool allows users to upload data and quickly assess geographic and demographic disparities. So what's new? A thread: apps.urban.org/features/equit…

It is such a beautiful and relieving thing to start to even think of masks and tests not as private commodities of consumers, but as a common good everyone has a right to which can be provided freely. It is psychically freeing to be outside of market thinking, even a little.

We need to do so much more for Covid vaccine equity: globally and also within the US for children under 5, who still can’t access the proven vaccines. Got a sec? Please sign this petition by ImmunizeUnder5s asking the FDA to cut the red tape chng.it/4CRS8PBJCR

This is heartbreaking. He truly set the bar for refusing to accept the systems and worldviews that write off people as too poor or too sick to be worth helping. Never accepting how the world worked, in favor of making it work better. We could all learn so much from his example.

Just a friendly reminder that if you're neurodivergent and work in tech we are actively hiring for a lot of roles at mode.com/jobs I'm Autistic and ADHD and have been promoted to run my own team focusing on developer experience. There's room here to grow as ND people.