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"... a 'Planner' thinks of poverty as a technical engineering problem that his answers will solve...
A 'Searcher' hopes to find answers to individual problems only by trial and error experimentation...
She believes only insiders have enough knowledge to find solutions, and that most solutions must be homegrown..."
William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, 2006, p.6
The Rapid
Results Institute
is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to fostering Results driven Experimentation, Achievement, and Learning as a way to tackle economic and social challenges in developing countries.
Highlights
Practitioner's Perspectives
"Instead, this initiative [UNESCO's Community Multimedia Centre initiative] has been developed along the lines of what has been called Rapid Results Initiatives..."
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Publications
"Why Good Projects Fail Anyway. Harvard Business Review 2005."
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RRI Interns
Dominic Muntanga, RRI Interns '06
"Working with Kailahun District Council in Sierra Leone this summer crystallized the challenges of translating policy intentions to concrete results for the common man and woman."
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