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TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. We are a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. Our work is rooted in the idea that hardworking people can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With five decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.

Our success in creating business solutions to poverty is due in large part to our talented and highly committed team. TechnoServe employs more than 1,500 people, the vast majority of them host-country nationals working in the field. Our staff combine business expertise with local knowledge, relationships, and context to help hardworking men and women generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. 

In 2020, TechnoServe's work helped transform the lives of 1.3 million people in Puerto Rico as well as countries throughout Africa, Latin American, and Asia by targeting improvements in farms, businesses, and industries. Learn more about our impact at www.technoserve.org/impact

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Regenerative agricultural practices increase smallholder farmers’ productivity and incomes. When you invest you #makeadifference! https://bit.ly/3OlH8uo  #globalimpact

Breaking news -- you just maxed out the number of evaluations in my long-term impact challenge! So here is my $1,000 donation to our local animal shelter 👇 And my 4 main takeaways from this experiment:

(1) There have been more ex-post evaluations carried out than I had previously thought. On the donor side – kudos to the Millennium Challenge Corporation and to the Japan International Cooperation Agency, both of which carry out regular ex-post evaluations on projects of a certain size. (JICA’s evaluations alone could have maxed out this challenge!) 

#USAID has run some high-quality ex-post evaluations and has even used the results to drive policy change. But despite this, USAID only supports ex-post evaluations on a tiny share of the work it funds – like far too many other large development donors.

(2) Yes, we reached the maximum donation to the animal shelter … but the overall numbers look BAD. The fact that, apart from JICA, we got ~dozens of post-project evaluations in response to this query – amid the thousands of development projects and billions of dollars spent over the years – indicates that measuring long-term impact is the rare exception, not the norm.

🙀🙀🙀 <--shocked cats, appropriately

(3) It was great to see the wide variety of organizations who used many different methodologies to answer the question: Did a project's impact last after it ended? As we seek to scale up long-term impact measurement, let's consider a range of approaches -- the perfect doesn’t have to be the enemy of the good.

(4) Perhaps the most important lesson has been that ex-post evaluations tend to generate ACTIONABLE information that can change the direction of development policies and investments. Sometimes their findings are different than those of a project’s endline evaluation! Simply put, if we want to make impact that lasts, we have to measure it. Regularly.


Armed with all this new information, I’m turning my attention to how to scale up the use of ex-post evaluations. It seems obvious to me that the answer to scale-up must lie with development donors rather than with implementers. After all, they have the ability to require more regular ex-post evaluations on their projects.

But I’m eager to learn more, and to hear YOUR thoughts on how to find and fund the lasting solutions that people fighting poverty so deserve. Let me know if you're interested in joining these efforts – and thank you again!

Small business can make a big impact on both the local and global economy. Juan Carlos explains how in our latest blog post. 
https://bit.ly/3vW16FF

🌍 Call for Partnerships: Transforming Waste Management in Micro Retail!
Are you passionate about creating sustainable change in the micro retail sector? TechnoServe invites expressions of interest from dynamic organizations eager to join forces in revolutionizing the Micro Retail sector's waste management practices.

🚀 About the Initiative:
Under the Smart Duka Initiative, we are launching an innovative Market Systems Development (MSD) program focused on reshaping waste management in Micro Retail. Partner with us to drive positive environmental impact while empowering micro-retailers to thrive. For more details please review the Request for Applicants document here

🌐 Who Can Apply?
Private Recycling Companies
Industry Organizations
Innovators in Waste Prevention Solutions
Businesses with a Circular Economy Focus

💡 Why Partner with Us?
Leverage market-driven solutions
Align with sustainability goals
Impact micro-retailers and local communities
Join a collaborative network of change-makers

📅 Timeline:
Application Deadline: 16th February 2024

📧 Submit Your Expression of Interest: ke-info@tns.org

Let's embark on a journey to transform waste management together! 🌱 #SmartDuka #SustainablePartnerships #WasteTransformation

January’s photos of the month focus on Kenyan smallholder coffee farmers increasing their incomes and lifting themselves out of poverty. From picking coffee cherries to drying beans, let us know which photo is your favorite in the comments. Get the stories behind the photos on our blog. https://bit.ly/42quro4

Your donation makes a difference. Help us end poverty. #endpoverty #donatenow https://bit.ly/3ubQmCH

Sildio Mbonyumuhire, TechnoServe Lab’s Product Management and Engineering Director, was recently featured on the My Tech Story Africa podcast, saying, “This work is gratifying for a few reasons. Building a technology solution is one thing, but seeing end users use it in practice is a whole other thing. Seeing that the solution you designed contributes to lifting someone out of poverty is even better.” You can read more on our blog. Take the first step towards your dream job - apply today!  https://bit.ly/3ScEKal

#TechnoServe #SolutionsToPoverty #FightingPoverty  #WeAreTechnoServe #devjobs #jobsintech

TechnoServe President and CEO Will Warshauer recently sat down with Board Co-chair Rachel Hines to discuss her career, her involvement with TechnoServe, and the generous gift she and her husband recently made to the organization. Follow the link for a look into their conversation. https://bit.ly/3SpoYZI

In the past seven years 9,671 youth micro-retailers, 59% of which were female, joined a program that  strengthened 21,000 jobs across Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Côte d’Ivoire. These young people are making a big impact in their communities. #entrepreneurship #youthunemployment https://bit.ly/3SlrP5U

Nieves Rocio Requeno's business in El Salvador not only sells baby clothes but creates opportunities for young people like herself. With TechnoServe's help, she discovered she could provide critical resources for mothers and create job opportunities. https://bit.ly/3RSb6Hs

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