Thrive appoints leading Social Value Economist Dr Daniel Fujiwara as Head of Economics

Thrive, the social impact measurement platform, recently announced Dr Daniel Fujiwara’s appointment as its Head of Economics. He will lead Thrive’s in-house Economics Team, deepening the economic expertise that already underpins the Impact Evaluation Standard.   Dr Fujiwara authored the chapters on valuation in the HM Treasury Green Book, which underpins how the UK Government appraises social outcomes, as well as co-authoring various supplementary guidelines such as on wellbeing analysis and for the Department for Work and Pensions. He is internationally recognised for his work pioneering new methods in social value such as wellbeing valuation, distributional weights, equity analysis and econometric methods,…

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Thrive launches free library of content to help in the fight against Covid-19

Thrive are pleased to announce the launch of their free library of life-saving content to help not-for-profit organisations stop the spread of Covid-19.   As an award-winning agency they have created the content to support non-profit organisations’ Covid-19 prevention work through behaviour change and health communications. Clean water and good hygiene are the first line of defence against Covid-19 and this message is vital to communicate in low-resource settings. The culture-specific messages encourage social distancing and promote good hygiene practices, such as handwashing with soap. The library includes text and images…

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WaterAid and Thrive team up to protect vulnerable communities against Covid-19

International charity WaterAid and health communications agency Thrive: Words that Change Lives have teamed up to create life-saving content for vulnerable communities to stop the spread of Covid-19.   The partnership sees the award-winning health agency create pro bono content to support WaterAid’s hygiene education and behaviour change work in some of the world’s poorest communities.   Clean water and good hygiene are the first line of defence against Covid-19. Thrive is supporting WaterAid in creating culture-specific messaging to encourage social distancing and promote good hygiene practices, such as handwashing with soap.…

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