Gathering aims for collaborative solutions to economic and social development challenges using MIT D-Lab's participatory design methodology.
Explores the role of entrepreneurs in developing/emerging markets, with a focus on solving social development challenges and innovating new development strategies/products, all within the built and human environment.
A recent six-day Practical Impact Alliance (PIA) Co-Design Summit, organized by MIT D-Lab and Moroccan PIA member the Phosboucraa Foundation, convened a group of local and national stakeholders, PIA members, MIT D-Lab staff, and aspiring local entrepreneurs working to create collaborative solutions to economic and social development challenges using D-Lab's participatory design methodology.
In partnership with Tata Trusts, the University of Chicago will launch a new center to address some of India's most pressing economic and social development challenges.
In addition to the economic and social development challenges that face individual countries, regional disparities in the capacity for scientific advancement and research and in the quality of education continue to plague the development of a strong, unified research community.
The Summit provides children with a special opportunity to express their views and wishes about nation building, what is being done or planned for them, about their country's policies and programs, about their rights, their country's economic and social development, challenges and their own role in all that concerns them.
UNICEF has developed a girls' leadership resource kit that is specifically aimed at enhancing girls' participation in responding to various social and development challenges.
But elections alone will do little in addressing Haiti's social and development challenges if more support from the international community is not provided.
Around the world today, young people are shaping social and economic development, challenging social norms and values, and building the foundation of the world's future.
Natural resources are not uniformly distributed over the landscape and, as a consequence, different areas support different social and economic development challenges.
The Duke GVC Center addresses clients high-priority inclusive economic, social and environmental development challenges through 1) sponsored research add-on advising support; and 2) capacity building and research program development.
