SI was founded upon the growing global desire-and pressure-to make international development more effective in improving people's lives.
The world's most pressing challenges-widespread poverty, HIV/AIDS, environmental degradation, civil war and conflict-call for new ways to manage societies and s... read moreocial and economic change. Foreign aid is increasingly a catalyst for development, and is helping to create conditions to remove people from poverty. Better policies in developing countries, improvements in aid allocation with the end of the Cold War, and learning about aid effectiveness and participation, make aid more effective today at reducing poverty than ever before.
The US Department of State (DoS) has engaged SI to conduct an outcome-based evaluation of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL)’s International Religious Freedom Programs. SI wi