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Magnetizing Entrepreneurs, Investors and Mentors: The Inclusive Business Accelerator aspires to be a hub for dealmaking (and much more)
Earlier this month, a new online magnet to attract entrepreneurs, investors and would-be mentors focused on base of the pyramid enterprises and opportunities began in earnest. The Inclusive Business Accelerator (IBA), created through a partnership a between the BoP Innovation Center (BoPInc), SNV and VC4Africa, opened for business - the business being that of connecting the startups with the money and the know-how that they need to be successful.
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Credit for the People, by the People: Three pathways to smarter financial inclusion
With the digitization of finance, lenders now have an unforgiving memory of poor people´s formal debt repayments, while knowing little else of any real significance about them. According to Ignacio Mas and David Porteous, this can become the basis for financial exclusion, denying even responsible borrowers access to credit. They propose some alternative pathways to financial inclusion in a new paper.
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CHAI as a Disruptive Market Force (Part 2): Despite successes, challenges remain in getting health commodities to those who most need them
A focused market-shaping approach remains a relatively young and rapidly evolving dimension of global health, but CHAI and its partners have demonstrated that market shaping can be used to impact outcomes and achieve significant savings for governments and donors.
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Farm Shop Cultivates Growth : In this video Q&A Farm Shop Co-Founder Madison Ayer explains the microfranchise model to supply, educate farmers
Farm Shop hopes to take the idea of the micro-franchise to another level – the ground level to be precise. Founded by Madison Ayer and Farouk Jiwa, Farm Shop is a Kenya-based social enterprise aspiring to grow into a rural network of agri-suppliers. With 25 stores in operation, proprietors supply smallholder farmers with a wide set of offerings - from basic fertilizers to more advanced hybrid seeds and drip irrigation systems.
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CHAI as a Disruptive Market Force (Part 1): Ensuring access means more than getting the right drugs to the right people at the right time
By actively engaging stakeholders on the supply and demand sides of the market, The Clinton Health Access Initiative helps overcome access challenges and gets health care commodities to the people who need them the most, write CHAI leaders David Ripin and Danielle Kuczynski. But what does ‘market shaping’ do to help those most in need?
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Twitter Top Ten 1-11-15
We returned from the holidays last week, and so did many of you - at least if Twitter is any indicator. Not that Twitter ever sleeps, but it can sometimes seem like it takes a nap or two during the holiday period.
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Roundup 1-10-15: Raising a glass to the Omniprocessor
The Omniprocessor turns human waste into a commodity. It also generates enough energy to power itself, doesn’t produce a foul odor and meets U.S. emission standards. No wonder Bill Gates raised a glass to it.
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Who Asks the Question May be as Important as the Question Itself: When the surveyed become the surveyors, monitoring and evaluation becomes localized
With Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) moving into the mainstream of the development industry, it’s time for NGOs to start documenting their programs in deeper ways. One way to do that, according to Semilla Nueva, is to localize the process.
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