Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine - June 2023
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale. Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our May edition. Inside, view conversations from the 2023 Global Acceleration Summit, hosted at the Embassy of Ethiopia! This months covers features speakers: Alan Miller, Sharon Price John, Susan Cotton, Winston Chang, Georgette Boulegeris, Jane Oates, Theodoros Bizakis, & Samson Arega!
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back in 2023 with our May edition. Inside, view conversations from the 2023 Global Acceleration Summit, hosted at the Embassy of Ethiopia!
This months covers features speakers: Alan Miller, Sharon Price John, Susan Cotton, Winston Chang, Georgette Boulegeris, Jane Oates, Theodoros Bizakis, & Samson Arega!
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P I L L A R S O F T H E L I L Y<br />
P R O J E C T<br />
W I T H F O U N D E R , S U S A N C O T T O N<br />
The Lily Project<br />
Barb Quantaince: I know you care very<br />
much, not just about the work and the cause,<br />
but also how you do it. Can you name what<br />
you might consider the key principles in how<br />
the Lily project works?<br />
Susan Cotton: Yes, we call them our<br />
pillars. Our first pillar is that it's a<br />
grassroots-driven organization. In other<br />
words, the people closest to the problem<br />
have the best ideas on how to solve the<br />
problem. We've developed our design<br />
around the grassroots understanding,<br />
meaning that we are staffed with local<br />
nurses and people directly connected to the<br />
issue and the community itself. It's a very<br />
community-driven grassroots approach. The<br />
second principle is data-driven. It's kind of<br />
strange to say, but one of the beautiful parts<br />
about something like this is it's very easy to<br />
measure and understand the issue.<br />
Everything we did started from a point of<br />
being able to collect data and understand<br />
our impact at the individual and collective<br />
levels.<br />
Susan Cotton: Founder, The Lily Project<br />
Susan: We're proud to say that we're<br />
probably the first organization that<br />
developed a significant database able<br />
to be used and understand the actual<br />
extent of cervical cancer issues<br />
within remote and rural communities<br />
in Nicaragua. This also allowed us to<br />
understand the sexual health needs<br />
of women in these communities, and<br />
what we learned is that 50% of the<br />
women we were serving had their<br />
first child before the age of 17. We<br />
then assessed the level of<br />
understanding they had about their<br />
bodies and learned that the majority,<br />
something like 80% of the women,<br />
did not understand the relationship<br />
between their menstrual cycles and<br />
their fertility.<br />
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