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How a Change in Perspective Helped Ignite Cookstove Sales
Envirofit is a social enterprise that since 2007 has produced and sold low-cost biomass cookstoves in developing nations. Along the way, it learned that good things happen when firms treat the BoP market as customers to be served, rather than beneficiaries.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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The Economic Case for Sanitation
"The economic impact of poor or zero safe sanitation is catastrophic but preventable," says Mark La Trobe, international managing director of Enviro Loo. He believes his firm – which makes waterless, chemical-free toilets that use air movement and heat from the sun to reduce solid waste – is in prime position to make a global difference.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Microfinance in a Dangerous World
Held in the aftermath of the brutal Paris terrorist attacks, last week's European Microfinance Week conference had a special resonance. But the event also provided a hopeful response to recent grim headlines: it brought a strong focus to the ways the microfinance industry and broader financial inclusion movement can lessen the tensions that drive global conflicts – and how they can help communities recover when natural or man-made disasters strike.
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- Uncategorized
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‘We’re not winning this fight’
Diarrhea – which is quite treatable – still kills 1,000 per day, and children in low- and middle-income countries continue to experience about three episodes of diarrhea each year. Repeated cases of severe diarrhea, especially during important development stages in a child’s life, can have a lasting impact on physical and cognitive growth.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Disrupting the Disruption
What appears to be truly disruptive is an education model in which students are forced to go beyond “business as usual” and build models where everyone can play a role in creating a more inclusive economy.
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- Education
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What McDonald’s Could Learn from Aravind
There’s certainly a “sauce” that makes Aravind special, according to Dr. R.D. Ravindran, the organization's chairman and director of quality, but it’s not secret. It all boils down to a culture of respect, and Aravind isn't shy in talking about it.
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- Health Care
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- innovation
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Weekly Roundup 11-13-15: What’s in a Name?
According to Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Centre at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, “social enterprise” is a mindset, not a “sector,” and we’d all be better off recognizing that.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Three Keys to Engaging Women Farmers
Women in sub-Saharan Africa produce up to 80 percent of all foodstuffs, but often struggle, for various reasons, to access the resources that they need to achieve higher yields on their farms. Their families and communities often suffer as a result. It's a dilemma TechnoServe is addressing with its Smallholder Poultry Agribusiness Development (SPADE) initiative.
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- Agriculture, Education
