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Can Citizen Science Drive the Sustainable Development Goals?

A new collection of articles demonstrates the potential of citizen science to measure and drive the SDGs

Proximate
Can Citizen Science Drive the Sustainable Development Goals?Can Citizen Science Drive the Sustainable Development Goals?
What Happened to Resourcefulness?

Too often there's a narrative that people are operating in deficiency. But in fact, they are demonstrating resourcefulness

Isabelle Clérié
Repairing Development • Issue 4 What Happened to Resourcefulness?Repairing Development • Issue 4 What Happened to Resourcefulness?
Repairing Development • Issue 3 Shiny Resumes, Stale Ideas

To development practitioners – please actively unlearn what you think you know about the Global Majority

Isabelle Clérié
Repairing Development • Issue 3 Shiny Resumes, Stale IdeasRepairing Development • Issue 3 Shiny Resumes, Stale Ideas
We Need More Anthropologists in Development

As we talk about community-led anything, there is an urgency to build anthropological skill sets like participant observation and thick description

Isabelle Clérié
Repairing Development • Issue 2 We Need More Anthropologists in DevelopmentRepairing Development • Issue 2 We Need More Anthropologists in Development
USAID’s Freeze and the Future of Aid

Welcome to a new newsletter for Proximate, where I reflect on the possibilities for a world without traditional international aid.

Isabelle Clérié
Repairing Development • Issue 1 USAID’s Freeze and the Future of AidRepairing Development • Issue 1 USAID’s Freeze and the Future of Aid
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