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From Our Partners: TechnoServe – the Year Ahead
This is one in a series of articles featuring NextBillion’s 2012 Content Partners in which leaders offer their views on important trends impacting their work and new initiatives to alleviate poverty through market-based solutions. Today we hear from Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s senior vice president for development, who answers questions about TechnoServe’s direction in 2012.
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- Agriculture, Education
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Supranational and Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Best Idea of 2011
Although many countries across Latin America are developing monitoring systems for populations living in extreme poverty using mobile technology, the voices of voices and solutions of these communities aren’t always heard. 2011 also saw the birth of collaborative acceleration
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Exploring a Global ‘Local’ Approach to Impact Investment as a ProInspire Fellow
After three great years as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, I decided to explore opportunities in impact investing. Last summer, I learned about the ProInspire Fellowship and discovered it would be a perfect way to increase my impact and develop as a socially-minded business leader.
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- Education
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- impact investing
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Case Study: SC Johnson and Community Cleaning Services, Sustainable Sanitation in Kenya
In recent years, we have witnessed heightened interest in “reinventing the toilet," or the development of new affordable toilet technologies for low-income urban populations. But often new technology and infrastructure is employed without planning for how to maintain sanitation. As the General Manager of Kenyan social micro franchise Community Cleaning Services (CCS), this case study explores our model.
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NexThought Monday: Land Rights for Women – a Ripple Effect
Many developing countries, from Liberia to India, are rife with women without land rights, who upon the death of their husbands are thrown off of their land and left with no way to support themselves or their children. National economies continue to suffer from the effects of these children, who are robbed of an education and a future. From 2002 through 2009, Landesa partnered with the Rwandan government to help ensure Rwandans would have secure rights to land and receive land titles.
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- Agriculture
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Weekly Roundup: 2-5-12 – Considering Pakistan, Reconsidering Incubators
This week on NextBillion our contributors tackled a new prescription for microfinance transparency, Pakistan’s potential for social enterprise, a key study in advancing impact investing, and a Q&A with Anurag Jain, who left the corporate world of Dell to launch a new incubator focused on four key sectors.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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From the Sun (Bypassing the Grid) to the BoP Consumer
Taking its name from the amount of time it takes sunlight to reach earth (yes, 8 minutes and 19 seconds), Eight19 is one of the many companies working to deliver solar energy to the 1.6 billion people of the BoP in need.
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- Energy, Technology
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How ‘Toil-o-preneurs’ Are Scaling Sanitation Solutions
Nearly 50 percent of India’s urban poor do not have access to clean toilets. With increasing migration to cities like Mumbai and Delhi, the pressure on public sanitation facilities has been immense. Shramik Sanitation Systems (3S), one of the early social enterprises that looked at sanitation in a holistic manner, provides community toilets in urban environments of India.
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