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The Siloing and Fragmentation of Children’s Issues: With limited resources and focused attention, organizations tend to work in silos, conscripted by their specific issues. Consortia work around single themes. NGOs may work effectively in a defined geographic area, but success seldom informs public policy or goes to scale. Donors choose to work within certain issue areas – health, education, the environment, etc. – but find it difficult to reach across sectors for deeper, more holistic solutions. While the specialization of these efforts has a certain logic, some measurable results and definable benefits, the end result is a fragmented development landscape. Chapter 5 investigates how this siloing diffuses the impact of approaches to children’s issues and leaves millions of children out of reach.
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Ajmera, M., Fields, G.A. (2016). Boxed in by Good Intentions—Working in Silos. In: Invisible Children. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57838-9_5
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