Azra K. Nurkic is the CEO and Co-founder of I4DI. With close to 27 years of international experience, Dr. Nurkic is a social development professional with extensive expertise in strategic program design, program effectiveness, and organizational development in a range of operational and regional contexts. This month I4DI, the organization
The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI), a woman-owned small business, has been awarded a five-year, $2 million Monitoring, Evaluation, and Training Services (METS) contract to provide expertise and capacity building services to USAID’s Resilience and Food Security (RFS) Bureau. This contract will support RFS staff to routinely apply rigorous monitoring, evaluation,
The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI) is committed to improving evidence-based decision-making for improved global food security. Through our work evaluating U.S. government and private sector-funded agriculture and food security programming, I4DI has provided recommendations and insights for optimized agricultural value chains, improved agriculture market systems, and sustainable sourcing decision-making
As part of our engagement with the Food Systems Game Changers Lab, the Institute for Development Impact (I4DI) Nigeria-based team worked in collaboration with other game-changers from different parts of the world to co-create and co-develop a jointly shared solution that has the potential to transform our world’s food systems.
Shaping the Future: Safeguarding Indonesia’s Cocoa Against Climate Change
On 9 August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body for assessing the latest in climate change science, released the first part of its Sixth Assessment Report. The science is clear. Human activity is leading to more frequent and more extreme weather events. The urgency
The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI) is pleased to announce our most recent contract to evaluate the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food for Progress Exporting Quality (EQ) Project in the Dominican Republic (DR), implemented by the International Executive Service Corps (IESC). USDA FFPr Exporting Quality (EQ) Project aims to
A few weeks ago, the Institute for Development Impact’s (I4DI) Nigeria-based team submitted an idea to the Food Systems Game-Changer Lab (FSGCL) open call. The FSGCL is a food system initiative sponsored by EAT, OpenIDEO, Thought for Food, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Forum for the Future, targeted at building a
I4DI is not just another consulting firm. Instead, we invest in developing longer-term partnerships with leaders who explore, take calculated risks, and set trends. We’re committed to working and learning collaboratively, generating new knowledge, and ensuring it’s accessible to all. In doing so, our clients’ practice improves, so does ours
On May 19th, 2021, I4DI initiated its 2nd annual Digital Technology Internship in collaboration with the Regional Development Agency of Sandzak– SEDA, Municipal authorities in Novi Pazar, and the State University in Novi Pazar, Serbia. Targeting young software engineers and up and coming technology enthusiasts, this internship is an
