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‘A Mark of Pride, Not Shame’: Momentum and challenges in the ethical supply chain movement, two years after the Rana Plaza tragedy
The Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed two years ago today, killing over 1,130 workers. The tragedy has added new urgency to the movement to force major brands to consider the ethical practices of their sourcing. Aarong, one of Bangladesh’s largest fashion retail chains, discusses signs of momentum for the movement, and the challenges of monitoring compliance to ethical sourcing principles.
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- Environment
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Watch the Replay of Our Google Hangout: Understanding BoP 3.0 with Fernando Casado Cañeque and Stuart Hart
Stuart L. Hart and Fernando Casado Cañeque took a look at many failures of Base of the Pyramid businesses and conclude we need a new version. The authors of the new book "Base of the Pyramid 3.0: Sustainable Development Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship" are the guests of our next Google Hangout.
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- Education
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On Earth Day, a Good Time to Celebrate Wangari Maathai Vision
Before she passed on, the Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai left an enduring legacy. The Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organisation she founded to eradicate poverty through environmental conservation, reached a significant milestone: planting over 50 million trees in Africa. But in spite of that incredible achievement, her life’s work was more about human regeneration.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Taking Technology to the Last Mile: After seeing inequities in rural health care in India, Sujay Santra invented iKure
Sujay Santra discusses why he founded iKure, why he set it up as a social entreprenership and some of the challenges the organization’s encountered in the past five years.
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- Environment, Health Care
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More Than Just Good Advertising: Challenges and best practices in driving digital financial services adoption
Despite the large sums of money being poured into digital financial services around the world, enrollment and usage remain low. Few services reach those who need them most. Grameen Foundation researchers Emilia Klimiuk and Joel Muhumuza have studied why, and they share several tactics to drive adoption.
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In Ghana, the Diaspora is Fueling a Social Enterprise Liftoff : Often well-funded, well-educated returnees are contributing to a ‘brain gain’
Social enterprise in Ghana is taking off and Ghanaians returning from living and studying abroad are playing a key role. But are there lessons from the returning diaspora that could strengthen social enterprise activity even more? A recent British Council and ODI study explores the landscape.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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‘There is a Democratization of Health Care Going on Around the World’: IPIHD annual forum yields lessons on empowerment, tools and location
The highlight of the 2015 IPIHD annual forum for many attendees was meeting the organization’s new cohort of innovators who are working around the world on problems such as health education for family members of inpatients, menstrual health, emergency training for health workers and new ways of delivering care through community kiosks.
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- Environment, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – How to Unlock the Potential of Young Inventors
I recently met an amazing set of entrepreneurs who are tackling a dizzying array of challenges: developing systems to allow impoverished families in poor countries to heat and pressurize water for bathing, cooking and cleaning; or creating a lawnmower-type machine that harvests and converts crops directly into biomass pellets for fuel. I wasn’t at SXSW or a high-level Silicon Valley gathering, but at VentureWell’s annual Open Conference in Washington, D.C.
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- Education, Technology
