Articles by Nilima Achwal
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Tuesday
June 28
2016EdTech That Can Do Much More for Global Learning
Ed-tech has been hailed as a game-changer of sorts, a movement that will equalize the playing field for all children. Of course, this sort of hype does not come without its drawbacks. More research is showing that technology can only be an enabler and aid – not a replacement – to real, live nurturing teachers in the classroom. What is needed in order for technology to work in education? EdTechX Europe was a forum for answers.
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- innovation
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Friday
November 21
2014At Echoing Green’s Inaugural Global Conference in Mumbai: With 400 million without electricity, you can’t talk in small numbers here
For the first time ever, Echoing Green’s annual Fellows conference – five days that bring together fellows from all over the world to collaborate and learn from each other – was not held in the U.S. Instead, it took place, in the words Cheryl Dorsey, president of the social finance and support organization, in Mumbai, India - the “exciting global center for social enterprise.”
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- impact investing
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Wednesday
April 23
2014Comply or Explain: Corporate India takes on a new model of CSR
Corporations and NGOs are still working to interpret and implement India’s Companies Act, which requires corporations to spend 2 percent of their average net profits on corporate social responsibility. The law affects about 8,000 companies that will spend a combined total of about $3.2 billion. The Companies Act was the centerpiece of the 2nd Global Conference on CSR in India last week.
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Guest Articles
Wednesday
March 12
2014Dasra Philanthropy Week 2014: Urgency in gender equality
Dasra hosted its fifth annual Philanthropy Week from March 5-7. It convened more than 600 prominent philanthropists, corporations and impact investors to catalyze funding to India’s social sector. And as Nilima Achwal explains, Dasra has made a notable strategic shift to focus on adolescent girl empowerment.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Tuesday
August 6
2013‘Frightening Hype’ in Impact Investing and Other Ways to Move the World
If non-profit ventures are able to function well and create deep impact (possibly a more transformational impact than the typical for-profit social enterprise), then perhaps we should be asking another question: How do we introduce better mechanisms to create rigor in high-performing non-profits, channel massive funding to them, and help them grow?
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Thursday
June 13
2013Women Deliver Conference 2013: A holistic approach to reaching scale
For the social enterprise field, there are critical insights to be gleaned from the international development space as well. Interventions focused on the “whole girl,” or supporting every piece of her life (health, education, legal rights, community awareness), seem to work better than interventions only focused on one isolated need area. Interestingly, most of the winning social enterprises at of the Social Enterprise Challenge at the Women Deliver Conference aligned with this thinking, largely not being product- or invention- based, but rather taking more holistic approaches.
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Wednesday
June 5
2013Women Deliver Conference 2013: Why it pays to invest in women
In the biggest conference this decade focusing on girls’ and women’s health and rights, Women Deliver brought together more than 4,500 leaders and advocates -representing over 2,200 organizations and 149 countries – in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Guest Articles
Tuesday
May 7
2013Social Enterprise Through a Wide Angle Lens : G20 Inclusive Business Workshop Asia focuses on benefits beyond income
Following the annual G20 Summit in Mexico last June, the G20 Challenge was created to celebrate some of the world’s most accomplished social entrepreneurs. Moreover, in order to showcase the winners and share lessons learned at a local level, it began its Regional Inclusive Business Workshops, which bring together select groups of social entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, policy makers, and academics to discuss salient challenges and innovative ways to surmount them.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
