Featured Announcement
Call for Applications: Scholarships for J-PAL's Africa Evaluating Social Programs Course
 IDEAL is offering five scholarships for J-PAL's Africa Evaluating Social Programs Course to be held virtually from August 9 - 13, 2021. The course will provide an in-depth look at why and when randomized evaluations can be used to rigorously measure social impact, methods, and considerations for their design and implementation, and how findings can inform programs. IDEAL will prioritize candidates based in Africa who support USAID BHA-funded activities.
If you are interested in being considered for the scholarship, please complete this brief application by Tuesday, July 27, 2021. IDEAL will inform all applicants of their selection status by Monday, August 2, 2021.
Photo Credit: Juozas Cernius/Save the Children
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Featured Opportunity
Call for Contributors: Care Group Implementers
 Food for the Hungry is seeking to update this list of Care Group implementers. If your organization uses the Care Groups approach as a social and behavior change platform, please email Food for the Hungry with your information to be added to the list.
Also, email them if you’d like to join the Care Groups Interest Group, which meets a few times a year to share information and resources related to Care Groups.
Photo Credit: Reginald Louissaint Jr. / Save the Children
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Featured Event
Rethinking Migration: Challenge or Opportunity?
SCALE | July 29, 2021 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM ET | Online
 The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis have shown us that now more than ever, a new understanding and approach to migration is necessary.
Join SCALE for an armchair chat, as practitioners and researchers question assumptions about economic migration and its role in non-emergency programming. Attendees will hear examples from El Salvador, Nepal, Niger, and Zimbabwe.
Photo Credit: Jenn Gardella / Save the Children
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Featured Resource
Stakeholder Consultation: RFSA RFA Design and Process
 Stakeholder Consultations provide structured opportunities for implementing partners (IPs) and BHA to engage with each other on critical issues affecting food security programming and identify solutions together.
This brief provides a summary of a Stakeholder Consultation, convened by IDEAL in April 2021, that offered partners the opportunity to provide input into the RFSA solicitation process to improve the quality of RFSA designs and lower barriers for non-traditional applicants.
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Upcoming Events
Early Warning for Food Security using Satellite-based Crop and Rangeland Monitoring System
SCALE and PRO-WASH | July 22, 2021 | 9:00 - 10:00 AM ET | Online
Creating Viable and Sustainable Sanitation Enterprises
WASHPaLS | August 3, 2021 | 4:00 - 5:30 AM ET | Online
Putting Climate Security at the Heart of Humanitarian Intervention
CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security | August 9, 2021 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM ET | Online
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Funding & Other Opportunities
Call for Case Studies: Models for Strengthening Last-Mile Seed Production and Distribution in Fragile Contexts | Deadline: July 30, 2021
Has your organization or program implemented last-mile seed production and distribution? Tell ISSD Africa and SCALE about your inspiring example for an opportunity to document your learnings and share them with the wider seed and food security community! Please fill out the expression of interest form by July 30, 2021, with a description of your model and what makes it innovative and impactful.
Call for Sessions: 2021 ALNAP Meeting | Deadline: August 4, 2021
Over the past 17 months, the humanitarian system has been affected by external forces which have brought about unplanned and unanticipated disruptions to humanitarian action. Do you have any stories about these disruptions? ALNAP wants you to help shape the discussions through their open call for sessions. They seek proposals for full sessions that fit within any of these four formats: broadcast sessions, workshops, breakout-based sessions, and stories.
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