An estimated 25% of aid and government projects’ value is lost to fraud, corruption and mismanagement in developing and war-torn countries. Fredrik Galtung is re-defining anti-corruption work from top-down finger pointing to bottom-up promotion of integrity at the community level. Questioning the...
Read moreWietse founded the Sea Ranger Service to revolutionize ocean conservation. His model combines the empowerment of unemployed youths and re-integration of navy veterans to provide a concrete solution to severe global human capacity shortages in the monitoring of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).
Read moreBy leveraging the medium of videography and filmmaking through the Green Hub Fellowship, Rita Banerji is training and empowering young people from remote geographies of the North East Region (NER) to take charge of their development narrative. Belonging to underserved and marginalized tribes and...
Read moreSaving gorillas by saving people: how Gladys Kalema transformed her teenage passion for animals into a radical social innovation
The Ivory Game
Ashoka Fellow Ian Craig is featured in Leonardo DiCaprio's epic documentary
Ashoka Netherlands Announces Wietse Van Der Werf as their Latest Fellow
Preventing Disease Outbreaks: Lessons From Uganda
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka who teaches Ugandans how to prevent disease outbreaks gives insights into the current novel coronavirus pandemic and how we can prevent future outbreaks
By introducing an impressive array of environmentally-friendly economic development projects to the Amazon’s most deforested region, Vitória da Riva Carvalho is proving that conservation does not have to come at the expense of economic growth. She is creating entirely new value chains around low...
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