Key Takeaway What if the greatest barrier to innovation in international development isn’t a lack of funding, political instability, or weak technical capacity—but our own project design systems? Through a subtle process I call the Innovation Filter, bold and potentially transformative ideas are gradually diluted as they move through project design, proposal development, internal review, donor approval, compliance, and budgeting. Each decision may appear reasonable on its own

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