What changed at Teach to Reach 16?
On 6 August 2026, at Teach to Reach 16, health workers from more than 50 countries joined the sixteenth edition of the world’s largest peer learning…
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Malaria: nobody turns the tide alone
In online learning, 95 people out of a 100 quit. A network of health workers from malaria-endemic countries spent one summer proving that this is a…
What’s the buzz about new tools for malaria?
What do a rapid test, a preventive medicine, and a bed net have in common? Every one of them, somewhere, has met a parent who said…
Teach to Reach 17: Share your experience, find new ways to solve your challenges
You are stuck on a problem at work. A colleague in another country has already solved it. How can you connect? Request your invitation to join…
No child should die from malaria: Thierno Abdoulaye Baldé’s story
The Geneva Learning Foundation runs peer learning for the people who deliver health care where it is hardest to deliver. Its courses ask participants not for…
Teach to Reach 16 Replay: Defying distance to learn and lead change, from menopause to malaria
258 health workers. 1,534 real stories. One question: how do we turn the tide against malaria? In Teach to Reach 16, the Geneva Learning Foundation gives…
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12 questions that learning strategy seeks to answer
Learning is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies (behaviors) through experience and study. We all want to learn, so why is it so difficult to…
7 key questions when designing a learning system
In the design of a learning system for humanitarians, the following questions should be given careful consideration: Does each component of the system foster cross-cutting analysis and critical thinking…
Make a wish
Is the CLO really the ‘fifth wheel’ in the organizational strategy wagon? Learning leaders tend to roll their eyes upward in sour-faced agreement about ending up as an after…
What is a wicked problem?
In 1973, Horst W.J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber, two Berkeley professors, published an article in Policy Sciences introducing the notion of “wicked” social problems. The…
Soufrière
“What I like,” whispered my dinner companion, “is that these publishing types have survived the fire of digital transformation, emerging out of the boiling pits of…
Bite-sized update: higher education in fragile contexts, discovery without analytics, and the epistemology of learning culture
As much as I wish this blog could document my reflections as I read, research, speak, and listen… it cannot. Knowledge is a process, not a…
Tech Change
The Institute for Technology and Social Change is a private company based in Washington, D.C. Its web site offers a course catalogue focused on technological innovation. Timo Luege…
Practice practice practice
Is there any evidence that university-based continued professional development (CPD) fails when trying to develop competencies needed by humanitarian and development professionals? Or, to reframe the…
Making humanitarians
The industry to tackle growing humanitarian and development challenges has expanded rapidly since the mid 1990s, but not nearly as fast as the scope and scale…