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Solutions Insights Lab

The Problem We Solve

Organizations tackling complex global challenges face fragmented knowledge, missed peer learning opportunities, and gaps in understanding what works at scale. Without clear, credible, and actionable insights, funders waste resources and implementers repeat mistakes.
 

Our Solution

Solutions Insights Lab bridges these gaps. An initiative of the Solutions Journalism Network, we combine journalism’s investigative power with rigorous thematic analysis to uncover what’s working, what isn’t, and where opportunities lie. We collect knowledge across networks to speed the spread of effective innovations, delivering insights that are faster and more cost-effective than traditional research, while remaining practical, shareable, and evidence-based.
 

What We Deliver

Targeted Interviews

Our global network of journalists goes straight to practitioners, innovators, funders, and community leaders using solutions reporting principles: response, evidence, insights, and limitations.

Research Analysis

Trained researchers apply thematic analysis to interviews, identifying patterns and opportunities.

Systems Mapping

We create systems maps that illustrate interconnected pathways shaping effective action.

Custom Insights Platforms

Searchable knowledge hubs built around your priorities, capturing lessons across regions and sectors so you can identify proven approaches and avoid repeating mistakes.

Engagement & Multimedia

We design strategies to catalyze action—from curated events to communications products and short films that bring insights to life.

The Result

  • Faster, smarter decisions on what’s worth scaling
  • Stronger investments directed to proven, high-return approaches
  • Amplified impact as insights shape ecosystems and spark collaboration

 

Why Solutions Insights Lab

We work quickly and nimbly, responding to your organization’s needs and the urgency of your challenges. We help you stop reinventing the wheel, learn what’s working, and turn scattered lessons into a roadmap for lasting impact.

Bring Solutions Insights Lab to your organization. Schedule a conversation with Ambika Samarthya-Howard: ambika@solutionsjournalism.org.

Organizations We’ve Worked With Include:

Digital Divide Data
Enlight Foundation
Livelihood Impact Fund
Rippleworks
Skoll Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
To Zero

Meet the Team

From distilling insights across dozens of interviews to creating graphics and websites, here are some of the people behind Solutions Insights Lab.

Ambika interviews community members in Bangladesh for the Eyeglass Initiatives project

Bring Solutions Insights Lab to your organization.

Schedule a conversation with Ambika Samarthya-Howard

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