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Articles by Joshua Schoop
Opinion: It’s make-or-break for innovation at USAID. Time to modernize
The United States Agency for International Development needs institutional reform to meaningfully improve lives and prosperity in the global south. Like many federal agencies, USAID has wrestled with modernization, often failing to adapt its practices to keep pace with a rapidly changing world, and in turn, struggling to deliver development results to meet American foreign policy objectives.
Scaling High-Impact Solutions in Global Health Supply Chains with Market-Shaping Mechanisms
The global health supply chain is an ideal sector for USAID and the DFC to test the concept of a Commercialization Fund: First, virtually every industry relies on robust supply chains to get goods around the world. There are dozens of African logistics companies that deliver goods to last-mile communities every day, including hard-to-transport items that require cold-chain storage like perishable goods and vaccines.
Innovators’ Moonshots Should Guide New Food Security Policies
One of the most urgent challenges discussed the past few weeks at COP27 was climate adaptation—how to secure and empower communities worldwide that are already in the throes of climate change’s worst impacts. U.S. policymakers have rightly recognized climate adaptation and food security as growing intertwined national security and development aid priorities. Yet most acute climate adaptation challenges like climate-driven food security lack creative, well-resourced policy responses.
Technology push innovation in government
As government grapples with new technologies, how can leaders prioritize which technologies to select and deploy? One approach is to start with the solution, not the problem, using push innovation. From robot-operated hamburger stands, to your face replacing a paper ticket as your boarding pass, emerging technologies are transforming nearly every aspect of how we live, work, and connect with each other. But they can present new threats as well.
Compliance challenges in public sector programs
Noncompliance among citizens can cost government agencies billions of dollars and prevent goals from being achieved. Learn how policymakers can use behavioral science lessons to redesign programs and improve outcomes. What are the biggest challenges facing government? Bureaucracy? Gridlock? A shrinking pool of resources? Chances are compliance—when people act in accordance with preset rules, policies, and/or expectations—doesn’t top the list for many. Yet maybe it should.
Secrets to scaling innovation government organizations
Scaling is the key to any innovation. This is particularly true—and more difficult—in the public sector. Absent market indicators, governments can improve a project’s odds of success with strategies that use data analysis to drive scaling success.
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