Breakout Panels

 

 

Please select one of the two concurrent panels below:

 

 

• Sarah Glass (Moderator), Acting Director of the Center for Transformational Partnerships at the U.S. Global Development Lab, USAID
• Shailee Adinolfi, Vice President of Account Management and Marketing, BanQu
• Ahmad Ashkar, Founder, and CEO, Hult Prize Foundation
• Anthony Burn, Director, Team Engagement, Radiant

 

You may have the most effective and important project on the ground but if you cannot communicate about it effectively with your donors, your partners, your management team, and other stakeholders, its future is at risk. Development communications describes the discipline of effectively communicating the programmatic impact and overarching results of foreign assistance investments. Just as program management and measurement systems have made big strides over the last two decades, development communications is increasingly instrumental to sound program management and effective messaging about international development and humanitarian response programs. During uncertain times, when many programs risk elimination due to prospective funding cuts, it's more important than ever to communicate effectively and to message target audiences with maximum effect. SID-Washington will engage experienced program leaders and development communications experts for an interactive discussion about how to improve development communications at the field or program level and how SID-Washington and development community thought leaders should engage with headquarters to prioritize and direct communications about crucial development impacts. 

 

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Global trends such as isolationism and nationalism appear to threaten foreign assistance and the future of U.S. international development work. However, efforts to alleviate poverty, resolve health crises, encourage economic development, and establish peace in the developing world are in fact critical to our ability to maintain our own security, prosperity and freedom in the U.S. Our panel of experts will look at this issue from a variety of perspectives.

 

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Additional speakers TBA. 

 

 

With tremendous uncertainty in the future of foreign assistance, international development organizations must diversify their sources of revenue. As Congress contemplates proposed budget cuts, Brexit signals a more inward-looking agenda in the U.K., and many European countries are spending foreign aid dollars at home, the trend away from government assistance for organizations working to help developing countries is becoming a reality around the world. What are alternative, innovative resources and mechanisms that could help continue the important work of development as government aid decreases? This panel will look at impact investing, private-public partnerships; the role of foundations; and other ways to finance development.

 

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