Reposted by Sam Sharp
As aid budgets get slashed, the development sector faces an unavoidable question: how to deliver meaningful impact with fewer resources?
In a new blog, @samtsharp.bsky.social draws on lessons from the Traction programme in Malawi to show how working politically can achieve results at lower cost.
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Surviving the aid cuts: working politically to deliver value at lower cost
As aid cuts begin to hit hard, these rich lessons on how to achieve impact by taking politics seriously and focusing on issues that galvanize people are some of the best tools we have.