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Doab Development
Collaboration, innovation, inspiration, market intelligence, and business solutions for international social development
ABOUT
We collaborate to solve social challenges.
Convening conversations and assisting mission-driven organizations with their strategies, programs, and operations. 

A “doab” is the fertile ground that forms between two rivers. Similarly, Doab Development brings together disparate people and organizations to help solve social problems. We have deep content experience in education, health and nutrition, and workforce development, and our work extends broadly to the international social development sector. We have supported projects in 60 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America, and North America.

Credit: Veda Nimkhedkar, Unsplash
Initiatives
We are launching Doab Development with four initiatives.
Making connections among people and ideas to identify the most challenging issues that we can solve together.

Join our efforts to catalyze social change around the world by contributing to one of our projects or recommending new ways to tackle big issues. 

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Social Development Master Class
Social Development Research Service
Social Franchising for Scaling Up
Big Data for Social Development
sERVICES
We also implement a range of services to support organizational effectiveness.
Helping improve organizations’ ability to drive social change.

Strong organizational foundations are essential for promoting scalable, lasting social change. We therefore help organizations clarify their strategies, expand markets, hone operational systems, and implement projects and programs to become more efficient and impactful.  

Strategy

We help organizations craft and update strategic plans, communications, and work plans in line with market opportunities and long-term goals.

Programs

We help organizations with their programmatic planning and execution. Examples include proposal development, program design, content development, analysis, and reporting.

Operations

We help organizations review their operational strategies, business systems, and execution of operational plans at the organizational level and project/program level.
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Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning
U.S. Government Contracting
U.S. Government Contracting
Proposal Capture and Development
Proposal Capture and Development
Program/project reviews and audits
Program/project reviews and audits
Operational systems
Operational systems
Work planning
Work planning
Staff planning and referrals
Staff planning and referrals
Partner screening and referrals
Partner screening and referrals
Implementation support
Implementation support
Research reviews
Research reviews
Institutional review board reviews and development
Institutional review board reviews and development
Applied research, monitoring, and evaluation
Applied research, monitoring, and evaluation
Tool development and branding
Tool development and branding
Study tours
Study tours
Event convening
Event convening
Strategic Communications
Strategic Communications
collaboration and responsiveness
Work with us.
Striving to exceed partners’ and clients’ expectations every time.

We are always looking for partners who share our passion for social development and are ready to engage in substantive conversations about new opportunities and strategies to improve people’s lives. Bring your own ideas or just your open mind to our discussions, and let us know how you would like to be involved.

We also strive every day to ensure that our clients trust us as preferred partners in executing their missions and growing their impact. This includes shorter engagements as well as longer-term collaborations.

Credit: Heather Simpson

Our vision is to facilitate new and innovative ways to integrate the vast experiences of the international development community and knowledge of effective implementers in targeted countries to define, collaborate, and solve large-scale social challenges, particularly related to equitable access to quality educational services, stronger linkages between education and economic opportunities, and better strategies for healthy, sustainable eating for productive and fulfilling lives.

Our mission is to expand and deepen the discourse about attainable social goals in under-resourced countries around the world by

  • Identifying the most salient issues that can be addressed by interested partners;
  • Supporting more organizations to contribute to the discourse and solutions; and
  • Contributing to the solutions directly ourselves

Our strategy is two-fold:

  • First is to grow our network of committed, capable professionals and organizations; engage with them regularly about the most pressing social issues; convene discussions regarding challenges and solutions; and help initiate and contribute to initiatives that work toward solutions.
  • Second is to support partner organizations, particularly emerging organizations, to have stronger operational foundations, resources, and opportunities to contribute to large social undertakings.
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On our minds.
Covering the gamut of topics, from professional to personal, inspirational and big-picture to detailed and mundane.

We write periodic articles to share views about the world, our sector, and our roles as aspiring change agents. Some are based on long-time thinking. Others are spur-of the moment reflections. Please let us know the ones you find most interesting, and we will try to write more!