This personal and profound narrative about members of the Self Employed Women’s Association is a part of a new series IMAGO is launching to bring the voices of those we are ultimately seeking to support into our story telling. Created, researched and developed by IMAGO Fellow and consultant Surili Sheth, who spent...
Curious about what IMAGO has been up to lately? Check out our recently launched newsletter to find out more about what we’re up to. This is our inaugural issue, offering brief insights into IMAGO’s work, our approach to scaling up grassroots innovation, inspiring voices and stories from the people and organizations we...
By Isabel Guerrero & Sandra Naranjo This article was originally published in Spanish in Semana Económica. View the original The pace of technological innovation is accelerating geometrically and it seems that we are rapidly reaching the world of the Jetsons. Cars that do not need drivers, robots that obey our orders and turn...
Two important lessons that Philanthropy seems to be taking to heart By Isabel Guerrero and Faizal Karmali In November, the Rockefeller Foundation announced the launch of Co-Impact, a collaborative systems change and scaling effort engaging large philanthropists around the world. Names alongside Rockefeller include Gates, Skoll, Wadhwani, Chandler and Nilekhani – and...
IMAGO is thrilled to release our first video about how we work with grassroots organizations around the world. It is just a taste of The IMAGO Way, but we hope you enjoy this lens into our work. Our deepest thanks to the incredible filmmakers led by Ellie Walton, music by Mauricio Guerrero Jr. and...
By Isabel Guerrero Last week I was invited to work with Fundación Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal and the Government of Brazil to help them in the scaling up process of the early childhood development program, Crianca Feliz (Happy Child). The context was a week-long executive education course at Insper, for 100 government...
Yesterday CNNe invited me to comment on Bill Gates’ latest donation of $5 billion US to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Xavier Serbia, host of CNN Dinero wondered about the motivation behind this gift. Is it to contribute to world development? To get tax benefits? Or to build a legacy...
by Michael Walton In development there is longstanding interest around greater participation of citizens as a means of improving the responsiveness and effectiveness of public services. This is important, complex and difficult—especially when the initiative flows from above, even more so when donors pressure governments to induce local participation. It was thus...
by Isabel Guerrero. This was the question this week on CNN-Dinero. The facts are shocking. The US is the only OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) country that doesn’t have paid maternity leave – joining Togo, Suriname and other small islands that are nowhere near as developed as the US. In my interview...
by Michael Walton. Surveying households usually feels like an act of extraction—the person interviewed is asked to answer loads of questions, some quite personal, and then they typically see neither the surveyor again nor the survey results, especially in large scale surveys. SEWA has been undertaking a census of all its 1.5...