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Devex interviews The Asia Foundation’s Assistant Director of Evaluation and Learning Natasha Beale on how technology is transforming monitoring and evaluation.   Technology is being used a lot more in M&E work, said Natasha Beale, assistant director of the monitoring and evaluation unit at The Asia Foundation. Traditionally, M&E was mu… Read more

The National Institute For Healthcare Management Foundation awards 2019 Asia Foundation Development Fellow Sohara Mehroze Shachi their Digital Media Award for her work on the series “The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5.” Larry Price, Gayathri Vaidyanathan, Talia Bronshtein, Sohara Mehroze Shachi, Anna Cunningham, Brendan Borrell, “The We… Read more

8000 Polled on Reintegration A new survey released today by The Asia Foundation explores the many challenges returnees to Afghanistan face, including limited employment opportunities and infrastructure, insecurity, lack of housing, discrimination and stigma, as well as language and cultural barriers. The first of its kind ever conducted in Afghanis… Read more

The Global Good Fund selects 2018 Asia Foundation Development Fellow Vaibhav Lodha as one of ten rising social entrepreneurs for its 2019 cohort. Founded in 2012, The Global Good Fund is a nonprofit organization that supports social entrepreneurs around the world. The announcement was also featured by Forbes.  

The Daily Star runs a front page feature of The Asia Foundation’s roundtable discussion on, “The Leather Sector After the Tanning Industry Relocation: Issues and Challenges.” Industry experts participate in a consultation session on the findings of the study “The leather sector after the tanning industry relocation: issues and challenges” at The Da… Read more

Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy features The Asia Foundation’s director for Policy and Institutional Strengthening and 2016 Asia Foundation Development Fellow Carmeneza dos Santos Monteiro as a guest panelist in their podcast series Policy Forum Pod. Carmeneza dos Santos Monteiro is the Director for Policy and Inst… Read more

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) features The Asia Foundation’s India Country Representative Nandita Baruah as a guest panelist at ADB’s 52nd Annual Meeting on May 3 in Fiji. The panel discussion, “Gender-Based Violence and the Rise in Climate-Related Disasters: Applying CSO Insights to Multilateral Investments in Asia and the Pacific,” explores th… Read more

The Asia Foundation, an international development nonprofit addressing Asia’s most critical issues, is pleased to announce the honorees of their 2019 Lotus Leadership Awards in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 29 at the Four Seasons Hotel. Golden State Warriors Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Cabalquinto; Lana Condor, actress and education advocate… Read more

Thomson Reuters Foundation News publishes an opinion piece written by Books for Asia program specialist Morgan Belveal on The Book Effect. Here’s the truth: Despite all we know about privilege, a child’s passion for reading is more predictive of their academic success than their family’s socioeconomic status.[i] Let me say that again: a child’s pas… Read more

The Asia Foundation’s Lotus Leadership Awards recognize outstanding individuals and organizations for their contributions towards women’s and girls’ empowerment in Asia. Lana Condor and Jennifer Cabalquinto have achieved incredible success in their lives and careers…