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If you Want to Achieve Social Impact You Need to Design for Informal Markets

Sep152016No CommentsIulian Circo
Here is a fact: Informal economies are the rule, not the exception. Have a look at these two graphs - they show total transactions by retail channels per country (Sub-Saharan Africa only). The first one shows transactions across all retail sectors...
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The Biggest Risk in Development: Playing it Safe

Aug1520165 commentsIulian Circo
Ask anyone in this business: the aid industry in general and donors in particular have a very low tolerance to risk. Donors will always award the majority of their money to Low-risk programs implemented by solid, low-risk partners. Innovation, particularly...
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6 Killer Skills that will Guarantee Your Success in any Job or Enterprise you Choose to Pursue

Jun282016No CommentsIulian Circo

Newsflash: The world is changing fast, the future is not what it used to be and all that. It used to be people went to school, specialized and that took care of that: they milked that good old education for…

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Graduate Opportunities at Triggerise

Jun212016No CommentsIulian Circo

Any organization is defined by its people. This is particularly true of organizations such as ours, forever evolving at the intersection of of non-profit and entreprise and spanning sectors as diverse as health, trade and finance. The nature of our work puts…

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More on why you Should Stop Traditional Data Collection Right Now and Smarten up your Monitoring & Evaluation

May1820161 commentIulian Circo
A few weeks ago I published an article in which I was urging my fellow development professionals to stop traditional data collection in their programs and opt for a smarter alternative. This is something I have been promoting for years: traditional data collection...
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Coordination: Why we Need Less of it, not More

Oct2820151 commentIulian Circo

“We need to coordinate more”, they say. “Avoid reinventing the wheel”. “Make sure we don’t confuse the ‘beneficiary’”. I am ready to admit there is some theoretical value behind the idea of coordination. However, such value diminishes rapidly as organizations shift…

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10 Reasons Why You Should Stop Obsessing About Sustainability & Worry About Scale Instead

Aug122015No CommentsIulian Circo

The concept of sustainability in development(*) is enjoying a lot more respect than it actually deserves. That is a shame as in the long run, obsessing about sustainability is harmful to our industry. I think we should all worry less about sustainability…

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We Have Some Awesome Data. Will You Help us Make Sense of It?

Jul022015No CommentsIulian Circo

At Triggerise we build entire eco-systems on markets at the bottom of the income pyramid. This means we manage things like direct interaction with people. Vouchers for products and services. Referrals for health services. Rewards. Subscriptions. Payments. And a lot…

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The Case for Consumer-Facing Development

Jun3020151 commentIulian Circo

Here are a bunch of statements you’ll hear a lot in the development industry: “We work on behalf of government X” (With the corollary: “We just build capacity”) “We are the implementing partner of Y” This is so endemic that…

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Movercado Product Owner

Jun152015No CommentsIulian Circo

We are looking for a Product Owner for Movercado, our Tech Platform. This is a harder job than it sounds. Movercado is a bespoke technology that is complex on the back-end and very simple on the front end. The Product…

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