HeyJaredCARE Failing Forward
CARE staff and other guests around the world talk about experiences we learn from failure, ways to create safe space to talk about failure, and how we use that to get better at our work.
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Ok, fine. But we won't buy that. (opens the original)
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"Ok, fine. But we won't buy that." That's what farmers kept saying when presented with the tractors the best experts in the world said they needed. Jehiel Oliver from Hello Tractor talks about how learn to listen to the market first, and the experts later. That's especially true when you're dealing with farmers, who know that no matter how ambitious a startup founder you are, you still can't break the laws of physics. The only signal that matters is whether the actual user will adopt the solutio
Don't scale the excitement; evaluate what's working. (opens the original)
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The smartest move in AI today is to evaluate what works before you scale on excitement alone. What happens when Low and Middle Income Countries start pulling investments away from traditional health, judicial, or extension systems in order to build AI solutions instead? It can have huge upsides, but if you're only testing the AI and not the impact for people, it could lead to "irreversible losses." Listen to Attaullah Abbasi from J-PAL talk about their new AI Evidence Playbook. AI is moving fast
Why family stability matters for your chocolate (opens the original)
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Cocoa income comes just twice a year, but families need stability every day. Carol Miloky (CARE) and Fatou Ndiaye (Mars) unpack what they learned from a decade of working with cocoa‑growing families. Savings groups were helping women build businesses, but without stronger household planning and clearer financial decision‑making, those gains didn’t always translate into lasting resilience. Over time, CARE and Mars saw a simple truth: stability at home shows up as stability in the supply chain. Th
Start By Listening (opens the original)
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Amanda Larson and Aimee Mateo talk about building health technology in the Philippines. HEAL Hub is an app that helps local health workers stay up to date on training and the materials they need. But the health workers aren’t who you think they are: in many areas, health workers are on average 60 years old, and handing them a smart phone is not going to immediately translate into results, no matter how good the app is. Amy says the biggest change she would make is to start earlier designing WITH
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