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Video on Award-Winning Muso: Reducing Child Mortality by a Factor of Ten in Mali
by Quentin Wodon One of the great Rotary-funded projects that has been featured on this blog is Muso. The NGO has reduced child mortality by a factor of ten in its catchment area in Mali thanks in part...
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Climate Change, Poverty, and Migration, Part 3: The Implications
by Quentin Wodon In the previous two posts in this series, I argued that households in climate-affected areas are highly vulnerable to extreme weather shocks, and often cannot cope and adapt adequately...
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Interact Membership Survey
by Quentin Wodon Interact is a vital and growing part of the Rotary family. Globally, Rotary Intenational estimates that Interact membership may be close to reaching 400,000. At the same time, we know...
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Trying a Different Type of District Conference: Does It Work?
by Quentin Wodon For the past four years, I have conducted evaluations of our district 7620 conferences using surveys administered through the web. This year our conference was different. It was...
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Rotarians with Chains On?
by Quentin Wodon It is not every day that The Economist magazine talks about Rotary International. Back in 2012, the magazine ran an article about polio and Rotary. So I thought you might be interested...
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How Can this Blog Be Useful To You? Priorities for 2015-16
This blog was launched almost nine months ago on world polio day. I took a short break from the blog over the last few weeks due to work and a holiday break, but I am now back and fresh to start...
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Webinar with Rotarian Founder of OLE Nepal: Learning from Pilots and Scaling Up
Established in September 2007, OLE (Open Learning Exchange) Nepal has pioneered the integration of technology in classroom teaching-learning process. OLE Nepal partnered with Nepal’s Department of...
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Technology in Nepal’s classrooms: Using impact evaluation as a learning device
Impact evaluations are becoming essential in the way we think about development and service projects. Pilot programs suggesting statistically significant impacts are hailed as breakthroughs and as...
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Partnerships, Innovation, and Evaluation, 1: Introduction
This post is the first in a series on increasing the impact of Rotary. The series will feature case studies of great service projects that have achieved larger impact through partnerships, innovation,...
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Buying Down Polio (Partnerships, Innovation and Evaluation, 2)
By partnering with the World Bank in an innovative way, Rotary has successfully leveraged its funding for polio eradication, contributing to success towards one year without polio in Nigeria and in...
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Providing Water and Sanitation in Uganda (Partnerships, Innovation, and...
As in other low income African countries, access to water and sanitation remains limited in Uganda, especially for the poor. This third post in a series on partnerships, innovation, and evaluation...
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Saving Mothers and Children in Nigeria (Partnerships, Innovation, and...
Over their lifetime, one in every 30 women in Nigeria are likely to die due to pregnancy and childbearing. Nigeria alone accounts for one in seven maternal deaths observed in the world today. This...
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Promoting Peace with Peace Centers and Fellows (Partnerships, Innovation, and...
In terms of global grants, promoting peace is one of the smallest portfolios among the areas of focus of the Rotary Foundation. But this does not mean that examples of partnerships, innovation, and...
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Investing in Disadvantaged Youth in the United States (Partnerships Series...
Growing local economies requires many different ingredients, but one of the most important ones is a skilled workforce, especially among youth. Skills tend to be acquired through the education system....
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Fighting Malaria and Ebola in Mali (Partnerships Series No. 7)
As part of this series of posts on increasing Rotary’s impact through partnerships, innovation, and evaluation, I had to include Muso, a nonprofit that has successfully fought malaria and Ebola in...
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Improving Teaching and Learning in Nepal (Partnership Series No. 8)
Many developing countries have made substantial progress towards improving education attainment (the level of education attained by students) over the last two decades. At the same time, the...
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Increasing the Impact of Rotary (Partnerships Series No. 9)
This post is the last in a series of nine posts on partnerships, innovation, and evaluation in Rotary. The rationale for the series was my conviction that if Rotary is to have a larger impact globally,...
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Open Access Resources from the World Bank: Introduction (Resources Series No. 1)
This post is the first in a series on open access resources from the World Bank that could be useful to Rotarians as well as others involved in service work and development projects around the world....
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Promoting Peace: Conference and Open Access Publications (Resources Series...
Conflict and violence have dramatic negative consequences for development and the ability of populations to emerge from poverty. At least 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated...
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A Century Old Letter from the Trenches of World War I
Christmas brings a message of peace against the violence of our time and all times. As a small piece of history, in order not to forget the violence of war, let me share a letter sent by my...
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