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NexThought Monday – Mentoring for Social Entrepreneurship Education: Building a holistic impact in the MENA region
Even with plentiful approaches to private sector professional development available – life coaching, consulting, executive coaching, training programs – proponents of mentoring proclaim its ability to catalyze personal development and create institutional change. But can mentoring also create broad economic impact?
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Weekly Roundup 7-18-15, Twitter Top Ten: Steering global development toward pro-poor trade
Assisting, or in some cases pressuring, countries to improve their performance is where development banks and agencies can make a difference in steering the big aircraft carrier of global development toward pro-poor trade. But without the data and research to know how to back up the dollars, they may be using wooden paddles in rough water.
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- Health Care
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From Pilots to Systems (Part 2): Achieving systemic and scalable private sector engagement in tuberculosis care and prevention in Asia
When TB treatment providers are already well connected to the broader health system, and can be reached as a group, the task of engagement is more manageable. But that is the exception and not the rule in global health care markets. The PPM intermediary organization is the beginning of a consolidating force in an otherwise fragmented health care system.
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- Environment, Health Care
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From Pilots to Systems (Part 1): Achieving systemic and scalable private sector engagement in tuberculosis care and prevention in Asia
Public-private mix (PPM) is really a form of behavior change for both sides: for the public sector in their approach to engaging the private sector, and for the private sector in changing their practices. At its core, PPM is trying to replace low-quality, inefficient and potentially expensive health care provision with rapid, affordable and correct diagnosis and treatment, and monitoring to ensure success.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Solving Customer Service Issues in Digital Finance: The can-do/must-do list
Customer service issues need to be high on the agenda of providers intent on achieving high levels of registered uptake and usage of digital financial services. It is also clear that responding to the most common challenges is no easy matter, even for the most committed provider.
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- Technology
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Tools for Teaching About Business at the BoP: Initiative seen as a way to raise students’ awareness of the potential in developing countries
The Business Schools for Impact (BSI) site is up and running, and offers a growing body of course materials and case studies from top institutions. BSI also offers internship opportunities, and one of its goals is to eventually build a full-fledged integrated Global Impact Master program.
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NexThought Monday – Eying the Prizes: Can innovation challenges tackle the problem of energy access?
Over the past few years, innovation prizes have become common with development partners seeking to sponsor innovations that are likely to yield solutions to common development challenges. The opportunities to take part in these innovation prizes are numerous, but are they actually effective when it comes to getting the products into the hands of the people who need them?
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- Energy
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Weekly Roundup 7-11-15: Sports for Girls, Marriage Counseling for EU/Greece, Tweets for All
The NextBillion team is a bit far-flung as the summer season hits high gear, so we’re continuing our experiment of combining our weekly Roundup with our list of Twitter favorites.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
