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Investing in Systems Change Capacity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A market innovation like creating a sustainable seafood market is unlikely to create enduring systems change without building strong relationships with civil society. Build broad buy-in across institutions through shared learning and leadership. Finally, robust infrastructure is necessary to defend wins.

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Invest in Networks for Exponential Climate Wins

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Time is of the essence: If countries are left to tackle clean energy transition policies in isolation, there is a real risk of having to reinvent the wheel multiple times, dramatically slowing down the world’s climate progress. Because energy systems are interconnected, our solutions must be as well.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, another recent study on African conservation funding practices finds that 92 percent of African civil society organizations struggle to access sufficient core funding, 71 percent of them identified short-term project structures as a key barrier, and 52 percent find existing proposal and reporting requirements to be a barrier.

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Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

coordinated with other organizations, working closely with the Human Rights Law Center , large professional NGOs, and civil society organizations whose strengths lay in advocacy, and unions that were known for their powerful organizing. The principles created a methodology for shared leadership. Rather than acting alone, GetUp!

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Debt-for-climate swaps can save the planet. Why aren’t they?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In the simplest terms, a debtor nation will agree to stop making payments to the lender and to, instead, channel that money into local climate projects such as renewable energy or energy efficiency initiatives. Particular efforts should be made to address and assuage the political and logistic concerns of lenders and borrowers.

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In retrospect, we can see with a borderless threat like COVID-19, collaboration was stymied across and within countries: Lacking clearly defined and owned targets, country responses often failed to meaningfully engage civil society. For example, COVAX’s anchor organizations—Gavi, WHO and UNICEF—fought over turf.

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Please Vote ‘Em Up: Communications Sessions @ NTC 2012 (NTEN Conference)

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Visual storytelling has the power to move public policy, incite or halt wars, and alter the course of civil society and this high-energy panel will showcase the impact of visual content to powerfully advance issues, causes and organizational impact. Say it in Pixels: Visual Storytelling in the 21st centur y.