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Commercializing Health Tech in India
Preventing hypothermia is recognized as an essential part of care for all newborns by the World Health Organization and the Indian government, but it is often missed, especially in resource-poor settings. The Bempu bracelet is designed to overcome that problem by empowering nurses and parents to detect and prevent hypothermia in babies.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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NexThought Monday: Our inaugural podcast – a conversation with the MasterCard Foundation’s Ann Miles
In April, the MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity awarded over $10 million to five innovative companies working to increase financial access in rural Africa. In NextBillion's inaugural podcast, we spoke to Ann Miles, Director of Financial Inclusion & Youth Livelihoods at the MasterCard Foundation, about the competition's winners and the broader digital financial inclusion space in Africa.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Weekly Roundup: Burning the Ivory to Save It
Late last week Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta helped set 105 tons of poached elephant ivory and rhino horns ablaze. It was a drastic step to help kill a black market where the horns and tusks would have fetched $100 million. This week we were reminded of other market building forces in Africa and Ecuador.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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Finding a Sanitation Destiny: ‘I Am Supposed to Design Toilets’
Jasmine Burton of Wish for WASH: "Although we are still very much researching and iterating our design, (the) SafiChoo (toilet) is innovative because it seeks to incorporate human-centered design and community-driven solutions to best improve the user experience in all parts of the market (from manufacturing to shipping to distributing to customers to end users)."
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- Health Care, WASH
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- sanitation
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Three ‘Golden Rules’ of Investing in Health-Focused BoP Models
With an estimated $140 billion needed per year to finance the health-related Sustainable Development Goals, the role of private sector finance is more critical than ever. Dalberg, after exploring the topic from a variety of angles and analyzing successes, synthesized three golden rules of investing in health-focused BoP models to help guide businesses, investors and start-ups.
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- Health Care
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What STEM Skillsets, Mindsets Bring to Sustainable Development
Many people still believe that all scientists and engineers work in science and engineering. Do all scientists pipette solutions in a clean white lab while all engineers take measurements on a construction site and programmers write apps in a cubicle? While many STEM professionals do fit these traditional roles, many more use their analytical skills to solve problems in other fields. According to the National Science Board, fewer than half the undergraduate STEM majors in the U.S. end up in STEM occupations. Part two in a series on STEM careers and directions for sustainable development.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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- research
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NexThought Monday: How Mindset Shifts Improve Health Care
The Ihangane Project is based on core principles like: 1) the relationship between health care providers and recipients is the essential link to reach good health outcomes; and 2) even the most marginalized members of society have the capacity to shift their mindset from one of scarcity to one of abundance.
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- Health Care
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Roundup: Chicago’s $100M Impact Test, World Bank Relevance Check – And Defending ‘White Savior Barbie’
Something big happened in Chicago this week, as the Chicago Community Trust, MacArthur Foundation and Calvert Foundation announced their plans to funnel $100 million in impact investments to nonprofits and social enterprises in the Windy City through the Benefit Chicago project. Our editors discuss that development, wonder about the evolving role of the World Bank, and defend "White Savior Barbie" in this roundup.
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- impact investing
