The Biggest Risk in Development: Playing it Safe
6 Killer Skills that will Guarantee Your Success in any Job or Enterprise you Choose to Pursue
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…
Graduate Opportunities at Triggerise
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…
More on why you Should Stop Traditional Data Collection Right Now and Smarten up your Monitoring & Evaluation
Coordination: Why we Need Less of it, not More
“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…
10 Reasons Why You Should Stop Obsessing About Sustainability & Worry About Scale Instead
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…
We Have Some Awesome Data. Will You Help us Make Sense of It?
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…
The Case for Consumer-Facing Development
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…
Movercado Product Owner
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…