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New Job Board Feature – FREE Access to NextBillion’s 100,000 Twitter Audience
NextBillion's job board is one of the most active career resources in the social business and global development space – and it's one of the most popular features on the site. We're making it better by tweeting out all new job posts to our fast-growing Twitter audience of approximately 100,000 – for free. To post a job ad, or find a career with impact, visit the job board today.
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How SAJIDA Foundation Nearly Doubled Customer Uptake of Savings Accounts
Astha, a term deposit account, allows SAJIDA Foundation members in Bangladesh to save toward a purchase or financial goal. Through the OPTIX project, BFA conducted data analytics and client research with SAJIDA and eventually redesigned the accounts. After rolling out the new features, the foundation saw a 97 percent increase in accounts opened and 59 percent more mobilization of savings.
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- Finance
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Climbing India’s Technology Stack: As the Fintech Revolution Extends to Health Care, Will Emerging Markets Be Ready?
The use of technology stacks has been a profoundly important breakthrough for social and financial inclusion in India, and it also opens up many opportunities to transform health care for the poorest residents there. But as these tech-based solutions proliferate in other low and middle-income countries, writes David Butz, the health care industry must be prepared for the massive disruptions they're likely to bring.
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Three Social Business Lessons from Detroit’s ‘Grassroots Entrepreneurs’
The self-determination that characterizes many Detroit entrepreneurs is a powerful paradigm for emerging markets, say authors Amy Gillett and Nathan Rauh-Bieri, and would-be providers of social entrepreneurship interventions should note a lesson learned: Make sure what you are offering is requested by the community, customized for the community and implemented with the community.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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The Nigerian Prototype: Youth, Companies, Government Rallying Around the SDGs
Nigeria-based Sahara Group has translated the Sustainable Development Goals into strategies that resonate alongside all facets of its work, says Karen Newman. The organization also helped bring together a variety of stakeholders – including young people, a network of companies dedicated to alleviating poverty and the government – to provide greater political traction and ownership of the SDGs.
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- Education
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Two-Sided Mobile Platform Creates ‘Network Effect’ to Help Patients, Health Clinics
The private health sector, where a large percentage of people in developing countries seek care, is fragmented and marked by poor quality and high prices. Two interlinked programs conceived by a group in the Netherlands – M-TIBA and the Medical Credit Fund – are attempting to address this problem at large scale. Both have achieved remarkable growth within a short period.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Surviving a Pandemic: How ‘Economic Training’ Helps Families Live Beyond HIV/AIDS
Millions of households are struggling to support children affected by HIV/AIDS. A new approach seeks to ease their burden by integrating economic strengthening activities into programs that already serve orphans and vulnerable children and their extended families. It involves training practitioners with new skill sets, so they in turn can help others develop financial independence and resilience.
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- Health Care
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Geodata Technology Moving Into New Fields. Literally.
Geodata and ICT applications help farmers with precision farming, leading to increased yields and improved quality. This information has not yet been made available to financial institutions at a large scale, but it has the potential to increase access to finance for smallholder farmers. The Rabobank Foundation and NpM have launched a Board of Inspiration to help speed the process.
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- Agriculture, Technology
