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Community Based Oral Testimony Rethinking Research from the Perspective of Community Experience In debates on development, the voices of those it affects the most are often conspicuously absent.  Our strategy for bringing their voices back in was simple: we decided to ask them. We adopted a strategy known as “oral testimony” which relies on extended… Continue reading Community Based Oral Testimony

The Goldin Institute partnered with Grantmakers Without Borders to produce a groundbreaking guide to understanding and improving microcredit. This guide and its recommendations have been distributed throughout our combined global networks of donors, practitioners and recipients of microcredit. A central premise of the Guide is that In debates on development, the voices of those it… Continue reading Microcredit: A Guide for Funders

    Reintegration & Prevention: Breaking the Cycle of Violence for Ex-Combatants and Vulnerable Children and Youth The use of child soldiers and young combatants in armed insurgencies, militias and resistance movements is a staggering and growing problem in regions as diverse as The DR Congo, Sri Lanka and Colombia. Well over 300,000 young people… Continue reading 2007 Goldin Institute Event

The Goldin Institute is governed by a diverse group of talented and committed individuals working towards a common goal of creating real local and global change rooted in the power of communities determining their own futures.

  Providing Access to Safe Drinking Water Today 1.1 billion people, one-sixth of the world’s population, live without access to safe drinking water. This humanitarian crisis has staggering costs. Eighty percent of the illnesses and deaths in the developing world are attributable to water-borne diseases. This issue is intertwined with many other social ills plaguing… Continue reading 2004 Goldin Institute Event: Taipei, Taiwan