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The H&S Davidson Trust (HSDT) is an entrepreneurial not-for-profit started in 2004 by Hugh and Sandra Davidson. It is registered in the Isle of Man (Charity No. 908), where Hugh & Sandra live. The Trust's primary objective is to transform the lives of very low income families, especially women and girls, by helping them to reach their full ...
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Our values, which you can read below, support our vision to...
- Research
The Trust has always invested heavily in primary research to...
- Our Values
Our values, which you can read below, support our vision to transform the lives of women and girls. Initially we did this directly through specific programmes.Now we are focused on reforming development in support of this vision.
OUR VISION + VALUES. Since our launch in 2004, the H+S Davidson Trust has focussed primarily on projects to empower Women and Girls, especially in South and South East Asia and especially through economic development. We have 5 Key Values. Listening + learning: we seek to learn by listening to partners, experts, and especially from front line ...
May 29, 2024 · The H&S Davidson Trust (HSDT) was founded in 2004 to help transform the lives of very low-income families, especially women and girls. In pursuit of this aim, our past work has focused on empowerment and livelihoods in locations in the Global South (India, Bangladesh, and Vietnam). We embraced the belief that funders like us can play an ...
- Who Are We?
- Our Partners and Plan
- Barry Knight Widened Our Horizons
- What We Have Learned So Far
- Next Steps – Need to Simplify
- Expected Use of Research Results
- How You Can Help us.
We are a smallish family Trust. Our objective is to dramatically increase income & empowerment of very poor women and their families. To date we have worked mainly in east India and north Bangladesh but also in Vietnam and Ghana. Our approach is – to work with local communities on innovative/higher risk pilot programs lasting five years or more, fu...
We approached Alliance Magazine, since we were both not-for-profit entities, and have similar values. We are now in our second year of successful partnership. Advised by Alliance, we invited Barry Knight to carry out the ‘Landscaping’ and to provide expert advice. We also conducted a competitive tender and selected Jigsaw Research, the UK Market Re...
Barry has a distinguished record of achievement in international development, including co-founding #ShiftThePower. His wide ranging Report reviewed the history of scaling from 1945, examined its various phases, and traced more recent developments such as the rise of systems thinking, and community philanthropy. He also tracked the growing importan...
We are still at the Qualitative stage of the Research. These initial results need to be viewed with caution, and the Quantitative Stage, starting at the end of August with a large base of Alliancereaders, will be more authoritative. Findings to date will guide us on themes and questions to be followed up in the ‘Quanti’ Stage. Scalingwas defined in...
Our Trustees have agreed with Jigsaw Research that in the next Quantitative Stage, we will focus and simplify more. The Qualitative interviews were wide ranging and included valuable input outside the scope of our research objectives. Topics like the future of INGOs, weak measurement systems, insufficient information & knowledge sharing. We will ‘p...
This Research is designed as a first step in a five to ten year program to identify winning initiatives and organisations worthy of scaling; get them scaled & improve the scaling process; and to help achieve a more effective and equitable balance of power between funders in the North and ‘Doers’ on the front line. We recognise that others bigger an...
Alliance Magazine will be publishing our Quantitative Questionnaire later this month. We very much hope you will help us by completing it. Make sure you are signed upto receive all updates. By Hugh DavidsonMBE, MA.Chair, H & S Davidson Trust. Hugh Davidson has worked full time as unpaid volunteer and funder since 2005. He has written many articles ...
The Trust has always invested heavily in primary research to understand our programmes and now the sector. In 2022 we sponsored a research study to understand how the international development system can be more impactful.
Sep 6, 2022 · Throughout their time funding successful pilot projects, the H+S Davidson Trust noted the international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) had no strategy to ‘scale up’ projects to benefit more people. This compelled them to investigate why this was, and what can be done about it. Based on a series of in-depth interviews and feedback ...
