Reading Recommendations

• “The Samaritan’s Dilemma” by Gibson et al.   — recommender’s note: “Great book on institutional initiatives in a bilateral aid agency (SIDA)
• “The Ugly American” (1958) by Burdick & Lederer
• “Development Projects Observed” by Albert Hirschman
• “Fixing Failed States” by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart
• “Mainstreaming the Social Sciences in Conservation” (article) published July 2016 in Conservation Biology online. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12788

Breakout Group Comments – mismatches defined
Matching Technical Quality with Willingness to Pay (PDF)

Matching Program Effectiveness with Individual Motivations (PDF)

Matching Capacity with Need & Matching Investor Returns with Long-Term Success (PDF)

Day 1 Sticky Note Exercise Summarized
In this activity, we thought about the stories shared in the morning about mismatches between technical quality and willingness to pay and imagined an activity that overcame those perceived mismatches. Our thoughts bled over into lots of other mismatches as well. Read Tami’s synthesis of the thoughts offered during this session:

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Big Questions
After Day 1 we asked ourselves, “Why are we here? What big questions do the attendees have?” This document gives a grouped view of the motivations of workshop participants and what they wanted to learn/know.

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Main Themes for “Elements of Success”
Collected thoughts from Day 3 breakout on “What is a “successful” development intervention?”

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