We were very excited to find this graphic in “The Gates Foundation Gender Equality Strategy”. Why? Because it reflects so well what IMAGO has learned over the past 4 years working with grassroots organizations and self-help groups in the field. This work has solidified our vision of turning development practices upside-down through...
When it comes to shifting behaviors, locally-driven efforts have the tools. Listen to IMAGO Executive Director, Isabel Guerrero, on scaling grassroots organizations in Episode 2 of societal platform podcast: “Sea Change”. Listen here.
IMAGO Executive Director, Isabel Guerrero, at the UN General Assembly as part of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. The panel is co-chaired by Jack Ma and Melinda Gates, and includes academics, civil society representatives, and senior government officials. Read more
A SEWA organizer speaks about the impact of technology on her work.
Homa Koohi, 2018 IMAGO Fellow, was featured on one of IMAGO’s client’s websites (Patient Care Intervention Center) for her work modeling systems to inform strategic decision making. PCIC is a social enterprise that is changing Harris county health system to bring care to highly vulnerable high-cost users of health systems. They work...
Written by 2018 IMAGO Fellow, Erika Caballero Montoya Gita is a middle-aged hardworking Indian woman, member of a self-help group (SHG), mother, and wife. Her life is at the center of Transform Rural India’s (TRI) efforts to transform rural villages in India into places of equal opportunity. Gita was the starting point...
IMAGO Global Grassroots is honored to announce that Co-Founder and Executive Director Isabel Guerrero will become a member of the UN Secretary General’s recently announced High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. She joins 19 eminent leaders from government, the private sector, international organizations, academia, the technical community, and civil society from around the...
The things they carried: lost objects of people desperately trying to make a new life. Sicilian photographer Mario Badagliacca is documenting migrants’ journeys as they get to the shores of the Italian island Lampedusa. “There are pictures of broken shoes, clothes, cigarettes, crosses, personal letters, everything. I was feeling the subjectivity of...
This issue of IEI takes on several tenets in international development and their impact on the sector and people they seek to serve, from community-driven development to data collection and impact measurement. Community Participation in Development. There’s been dynamic dialogue around the role and impact of Community Driven Development in recent weeks. Community...
The latest issue of The IMAGO Insider, our quarterly newsletter is here! From ‘Empowerment’ to Releasing the Power addresses issues of agency, multidimensional poverty, the role of government in addressing the challenges of poverty and the ‘missing middle’ in development. We apprecite this opportunity to share with you some of our most recent ideas, work...