Proxy indicators are absolutely useful and provide important information for decision-making and course corrections — but proxy indicators should never be conflated with the actual goal they are designed to measure.
Category: Institutional Development
Development aid interventions are designed to create change — but often the real development challenge is not creating change but sustaining it post-donor funding.
Higher education institutions (HEIs) transition towards sustainability when this transition is championed by campus visionaries — whether administrators, faculty, staff, and/or students. These visionaries not only see alternative, more sustainable, ways of doing things, they also help others to see and embrace those alternatives.