Maria Alemu and Gregory Makabila talk about the Ifaa project's Failure Summit, and what it took to create a culture where failure spurred reflection, learning and action. Lessons from Saint Yared, a learning from failure roadmap, pre-mortem exercises, and the 5 Whys of Failure were all key tools that helped the team learn, adapt, and improve. Check out their reflections, what they would do differently, and the diverse range of tools that helped the team embrace failing forward.
Ifaa is a USAID-funded RFSA project that CRS leads in Ethiopia.
It’s not a choice: Connecting Cash and GBV
Move faster: Finding ways to support GBV Survivors with Cash Services (English)
Move faster: Finding ways to support GBV Survivors with Cash Services (Arabic)
Efficient, Effective, or Inexpensive: Looking at Cost Efficiency for Impact, Not Just Savings
Gender Equality in Savings Groups: Women Cannot Do It Alone
Designing Cash Programming to Reduce Gender Based Violence (English)
Designing Cash programming to reduce gender based violence: Part 2 (Arabic)
Designing Cash to reduce Gender Based Violence (Arabic)
Get Beyond Your Own Assumptions
Treat the System, Not the Disease
We are not superior: lessons on working authentically with local organizations
Breaking Inward: Digital Failures and Who Bears the Risk
Don't Try to Win: Lessons from innovation failures in the humanitarian sector
Where White Feminism has Failed: Linking women's empowerment with anti-racism
Study, analyze, adjust quickly: the Bihar Technical Support Program's concurrent measurement and learning approach
We are not immune: unlearning white supremacy in international development
Fail Again. Fail Better.
Data in the time of COVID
Dream Big, But Move Methodically
Implementers vs. Allies
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Commercial Edge: Unleash the Power of People
The emPOWERed Half Hour
Advocacy Scoop Podcast
Social Dallas Podcast
Change Church Podcast
Six Degrees with Kevin Bacon
Nonprofits Are Messy: Lessons in Leadership | Fundraising | Board Development | Communications