In the prevailing national imagination, American border towns are often painted in strokes of chaos. We are told, through flickering news segments and heated political debates, that these are “front ...
Thaison Builder and Developer Inc. formalized its partnership with Shell Pilipinas Foundation Inc. through a Program Launch held on February 10, supporting a transformative initiative for Aeta ...
Introduction Positive deviance is an asset-based approach to improvement which has recently been adopted to improve quality and safety within healthcare. The approach assumes that solutions to ...
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has been testing the adaptation pioneers approach in the Program for Climate-Smart Livestock (PCSL) in African countries such as Kenya, Uganda and ...
In every community, some individuals or groups achieve significantly better outcomes than their peers, despite having similar challenges and resources. Finding these so-called positive deviants and ...
Ms. Whippman is the author of “BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity.” Perhaps it’s a predictable irony that in an election cycle that could realistically deliver the first ...
When Kim Cameron gets off a flight, he’ll often hand a couple of his Delta frequent-flier certificates to airport employees. “I just thank them when they serve me,” he tells me. In turn, they will ...
eDepartment of Health Systems, Impact Evaluation, and Policy, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ...
The concept of positive deviance (Sternin & Choo, 2000; Wishik & Van der Vynckt, 1976) is that in any community faced with a problem, there are likely to be some individuals who are successful because ...