Thank you, International Health Partners! We are honored to be partnering with you on this lifesaving work in South Sudan and DRC. We look forward to working together to ensure frontline providers have the essential supplies they need to care for their communities.
We are proud to announce our new partnership with IMA World Health, a Corus International organisation, as we continue in our mission to serve those in need around the world by providing access to essential healthcare. Our first shipments will support IMA’s vital work in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Operating in highly fragile humanitarian contexts, our Essential Health Packs will deliver critical medical supplies to communities facing significant barriers to care. Together, we can ensure that healthcare providers are equipped, supply chains are dependable, and patients can access the care they deserve.
03/27/2026
🚀 New White Paper Launch: A Framework for Scaling EdTech Impact in Sub‑Saharan Africa
Why do so many EdTech initiatives fail to deliver sustainable results?
Because technology alone isn’t enough.
Our new white paper — A Framework for Scaling EdTech Impact: Six Stages for Sustainable Education Technology Reform in Sub‑Saharan Africa — lays out a practical, evidence‑informed roadmap showing how governments, donors, and implementers can sequence investments to build lasting digital transformation.
📊 Drawing on implementation experience across West, East, and Central Africa, the paper argues that EdTech succeeds only when foundational systems are in place first:
1️⃣ Power & connectivity
2️⃣ Clean teacher payroll and HR data
3️⃣ A national school master list
4️⃣ Strong district‑level management
5️⃣ Data‑driven school leadership & teacher support
6️⃣ Classroom technology — last, not first
🔍 The research shows: when the sequence is skipped, programs stall or collapse. When followed, EdTech becomes scalable, sustainable, and transformative.
⬇️ Download the white paper to explore the full framework, case studies, and evidence base — and to rethink how we invest in EdTech across low‑resource settings:
🔗 https://bit.ly/3PNyCrw
03/26/2026
When global education budgets shrink, programs that support the most vulnerable children are often the first to be cut. We have the power and the tools to change this trajectory.
By leveraging data and EdTech innovations, we can protect education for children at the greatest risk of dropping out. Corus Senior Education Advisor Hannah Graham will outline exactly how we achieve this at the upcoming 2026 CIES conference.
Her presentation highlights our Girls In School Initiative (GISI). This program proves that precision targeting at scale is entirely achievable using existing national digital systems.
Through timely data and targeted interventions, we can keep vulnerable girls in the classroom, support local educators, and build truly resilient education systems.
We must act decisively to ensure all children have access to quality education despite funding cuts.
Read Hannah’s latest blog to understand how we are turning data into action and don’t miss her CIES 2026 session: https://bit.ly/4dKMPzl
CIES-Comparative and International Education Society
03/26/2026
Big news at Corus International. 🚀✨
We’re elevating education as a flagship pillar of our work and accelerating our technology strategy with two key leadership appointments:
🏫🎓 Hannah Graham, leading our global education portfolio
&
📱📈 David McAfee, joining as Managing Director of CGA Technologies
With this leadership in place, Corus is expanding its ability to deliver integrated, tech-enabled services that help governments, donors, and private-sector partners achieve measurable results at scale (like the Wi De Ya education and attendance monitoring platform being used in classrooms across Sierra Leone pictured below).
Explore how these appointments advance Corus’s growth strategy in our latest announcement: https://bit.ly/3NER5pI
03/23/2026
This month, Corus organization Lutheran World Relief has been hard at work getting others into work across Honduras.
At a national job fair hosted by COHEP, our colleague Carlos Pineda led an engaging session on Soft Skills for Effective Work — because while technical skills may get you the interview, soft skills are what get you the job… and the promotion. Empathy, assertive communication, teamwork, and leadership aren’t just “nice to have” — they’re the foundation of long-term professional success for young people entering the workforce.
🤝✨ And in a major milestone, FUNDAHRSE and Lutheran World Relief signed a memorandum of understanding to expand opportunities for youth and women and promote sustainable development in Honduras. The agreement, signed by Claudia Díaz Yánez, Executive Director of FUNDAHRSE, and Karen Pavón Sierra, LWR’s Director for Central America, strengthens our shared commitment to:
✅ Expanding employability pathways
✅ Building human capital
✅ Increasing inclusion for women and young people
✅ Boosting the country’s business competitiveness
Together, we’re investing in the talent, resilience, and potential of Honduras’s next generation.
Cohep-Oficial
03/20/2026
Join Corus International’s Mali Country Director Hazara Ouedraogo and Senior Technical MERL Lead Dr. Nancy Stroupe for an upcoming webinar from CORE Group’s Nutrition Working Group focused on how to effectively implement and evaluate nutrition programming across the humanitarian–development nexus.
This session will share real-world experiences from Mali and Ethiopia, offering practical lessons for practitioners designing or adapting nutrition programs in complex contexts.
Corus International is officially part of the Cool Farm Alliance—and we couldn’t be more excited. 🌱💚
Through Corus org Lutheran World Relief, we’re bringing the Cool Farm Tool into our rural agriculture programs to help farmers measure and improve their GHG emissions, water use, biodiversity, and food loss and waste. This science-backed tool gives farmers the power to see what’s working, test new regenerative practices, and build healthier, more resilient farms.
👩🏾⚕️✨Meet Souma Traoré, a trained midwife and health center director in Timbuktu, Mali.
Her leadership, strengthened through U.S. State Department-funded MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience, is helping more women access safe pregnancy, childbirth, and newborn care—even in a region facing conflict and limited resources.
Women health workers are often the first—and sometimes only—line of care for mothers and children. Their expertise, resilience, and commitment make community health possible.
Souma’s story reminds us why supporting women leaders in global health matters. Read it in full here: https://bit.ly/3MKtyDq
02/25/2026
How do circular economy solutions in coffee become truly investable?
Lizzie Merrill, Senior Manager of Impact & Insights at Ground Up Investing, will be speaking in the (Re)Generating Value through Circular Economy in Coffee webinar series — sharing how GUI’s portfolio is putting circular principles into practice.
As the impact investing arm of Corus International, Ground Up Investing backs high-impact enterprises that deliver social, economic, and environmental returns. Lizzie will highlight real examples from the GUI portfolio that demonstrate how circular models in agriculture — including coffee — can move from promising concepts to scalable, finance-ready businesses.
Join ITC Agribusiness, International Coffee Organization, and Center for Circular Economy in Coffee to hear how circular coffee can become a bankable opportunity.
📌 Financing opportunities in the Circular Coffee Economy
📅 26 February 2026
⏰ 16:00–17:30 CET
🌍 Live translation available via Wordly AI
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/4aKx0XT
02/24/2026
Investment in adaptation & resilience (A&R) isn’t just a climate buzzword — in Sub-Saharan Africa, it’s practical risk management.
Floods, drought, extreme heat, and storms are already reshaping markets and supply chains. For companies and investors, adapting isn’t optional — it’s essential.
Join Lizzie Merrill, Senior Manager of Impact & Insights at Ground Up Investing, the impact investing arm of Corus International, along with other investors in this space for a webinar on Investing in A&R in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Lizzie will share how Ground Up Investing’s portfolio companies are actively navigating the risks — and opportunities — of financing A&R in one of the regions most affected by climate change.
If you’re exploring how climate adaptation can strengthen both portfolios and communities, this conversation is for you.
Investment into adaptation and resilience (A&R) is a new idea or strategy for many investors. But in regions of the world already experiencing significant…
02/22/2026
Corus is at in Madagascar!
This week, Dennis Cherian, Managing Director for Technical Services & Health Global Practice Head, and Noshaba Zafar, Senior Director for Family & Child Protection, are participating in the 12th Biennial Conference of the African Christian Health Associations Platform (ACHAP) (23–27 February 2026).
Aligned with this year’s theme — Rethinking Health Systems for Africa’s Future: Faith, Innovation and Sustainability — they’ll share how faith-based organizations meet urgent health needs in fragile, crisis, and last-mile settings. Drawing from Corus organization IMA World Health's experience across the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Türkiye, Yemen, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, and across Latin America, they’ll highlight how FBOs are:
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In August 2016, a wave of violence swept through IMA World Health’s project regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 3 million people were affected, and several health centers we support shut down due to mass population displacement. Yet we met or even exceeded annual targets for several important health services. Thanks to our longstanding relationships with local chiefs, we even negotiated the passage of medicines for resupplying health zones that were cut off from receiving supplies for many months.
When famine struck in South Sudan, IMA’s longstanding relationships with local partners helped to ensure rapid access to emergency care for those facing imminent starvation. Our presence in the world’s youngest country has survived this famine, the ravages of war and extreme drought since 2009.
IMA World Health works in some of the world’s most fragile areas, where stability can be fleeting and there are no guarantees. A devastating hurricane in Haiti or violence in eastern DRC could have forced us to pack up and leave.
We didn’t. Our projects overcome because the people overcome. Person by person and community by community, together we rebuild, we reconvene, we rediscover hope again and again. We are able to continue operating in these fragile places because we invest in each community we serve. We are committed to change that lasts. This is resilience, and we believe IMA’s best work is in empowering individuals and communities with skills and tools to turn this ineffable quality into real-world solutions for overcoming their health challenges.
In our 2017 Annual Report, we present some of the highlights of IMA’s work the past year. As you read, we encourage you to look beyond the numbers to see how IMA is building resilience to create lasting impact in the communities we serve. Please know we are deeply grateful for how you, our donors and partners, share in our vision and make this work possible.
