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    How aid succeeds: Early lessons from Mesoamerica

    What’s the key to a successful development initiative? How do you ensure aid effectiveness? Devex asked the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Gary Darmstadt in this video interview.

    By Rolf Rosenkranz // 20 August 2013

    What’s the key to a successful development initiative? How do you ensure aid effectiveness?

    Watch Gary Darmstadt, director of family health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a key player in Mesoamerica, the foundation’s partnership with Latin American governments, the Inter-American Development Bank and others.

    Devex spoke with him at the IDB’s 2013 gathering in Panama City.

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        Rolf Rosenkranz has worked as a Global Editor for Devex. Previously, Rolf was managing editor at Inside Health Policy, a subscription-based news service in Washington. He has reported from Africa for the Johannesburg-based Star and its publisher, Independent News & Media, as well as the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a German daily.

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