How to design for impact

With increasing public scrutiny on development spending, there’s a huge clamor for aid groups to prove their impact. To design for impact, according to Carolyn Miles, is to start with the end point and move backwards.

By // 01 October 2012

With increasing public scrutiny on development spending, there’s a huge clamor for aid groups to prove their impact. Partnerships, Save the Children USA President and CEO Carolyn Miles tells Devex, are key to designing for impact.

Lars Schwetje contributed reporting from New York.

Check out the rest of our interview with Carolyn Miles, as well as our conversations with other global development luminaries who attended this year’s Clinton Global Initiative.

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    • Rolf Rosenkranz

      Rolf Rosenkranz

      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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