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Pledge Guarantee for Health: Using innovative financing to make aid work better, faster and smarter
To achieve the Millennium Development Goals, aid agencies must make every dollar count. But according to estimates, the volatility of development aid costs as much as 28 cents of every dollar spent. In this post, Ariel Pablos-Méndez of USAID discusses the Pledge Guarantee for Health, a simple, innovative financing tool that can help make development aid work better, faster and smarter.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- public health
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Building an Affordable Learning Market: The Pearson Affordable Learning Fund one year on, lessons learned in education impact investing
The Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (PALF) was established in May 2012, with a mandate to invest in the creation and servicing of low-cost-private school chains around the globe. Here are a few of the things we’ve learned about education impact investing in the year since we launched.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Enlisting Quacks in the Battle Against TB: An alarming study from Lepra highlights the need to train and regulate informal providers
Tuberculosis is second only to HIV/AIDS as the world’s deadliest infectious disease - and improper treatment can increase its drug resistance. But alarming research from the international charity Lepra suggests that proper treatment is rare among the informal providers common at the BoP. Lepra spoke with NextBillion Health Care about the need to enlist these providers in the fight against TB.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Announcing the NextBillion Case Writing Competition: (AKA: The people you need to impress)
This much you may already know: We’re looking forward to bringing back the NextBillion Case Writing Competition in 2014 thanks to the sponsorship of Citi Foundation and the administrative guidance of GlobaLens. Here’s what you may not know: The people you will need to impress with your cases. I’m excited to announce the judges for next year’s case writing competition.
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- Education
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RuralShores: Bringing jobs to rural India
RuralShores is a business process outsourcing (BPO) company focused on generating rural employment. The Bangalore, India based firm hopes to provide employment to more than 100,000 rural youth by setting up centers in each of India’s 500 rural districts. To help stem the tide of rural young people who migrate to cities in search of jobs, RuralShores creates employment opportunities in small villages.
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- Education, Technology
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Beyond the Clinic: A holistic approach to creating community health in Ecuador
Most health care systems are structured to treat illness. APROFE, an Ecuadorian non-profit, focuses on preventing it by creating thriving communities. Its outreach programs include everything from health education and preventive care to entrepreneurial development, aiming to make communities – and the people in them – healthy, happy and prosperous.
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- Education, Health Care
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NextThought Monday – An Alternative to Alternative Energy: Will microfinance embrace biogas for the BoP?
Solar was once the wild west of alternative energy. Today, microfinance banks see it as a solid investment, even for poor clients, and bio-gas may follow its footsteps.
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- microfinance, solar
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Weekly Roundup: Moore’s Law vs. the Law of the Jungle
The last telegram in India will go out on Monday. For many Indians, this is a little more than a nostalgic goodbye, much like the end of Kodak’s Kodachrome film here a few years ago. For others, particularly those across the rural landscape, there is no cell tower, there is no Internet connection - at least not yet. These are the folks caught between the old and the new worlds, and despite massive adoption of mobile technology, about 74 percent of the country is still without a cell phone.
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- Technology
