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Where Does Innovation Meet Scale?: Leveraging cross-sector collaborations to expand impact
How can the innovation of the social enterprise sector meet the scale of the World Bank, USAID, the United Nations, or emerging market governments? This collision has the potential to create new systems, shatter old ones, and ultimately make us more effective and efficient at delivering products and services to the poor. Blair Miller explores some promising cross-sector collaborations - and the opportunities they signify for social enterprise.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health
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NexThought Monday: How Africa’s prosperity can grow … from trees
if Africa hopes to sustain its impressive economic growth and reign in the impacts of climate change, the continent needs to leverage agroforestry’s dual economic and environmental benefits on a larger scale. Attendees of the World Economic Forum on Africa this past week know that the continent’s economic success depends on private sector participation. But corporations also have a major role to play in boosting the continent’s economy and solving the world’s forestry woes through the field of agroforestry.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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April’s Most Popular Posts on NB
This month, our top three most-read articles examined how companies are succeeding in reaching out to consumers at the base of the pyramid, as well as a sharp critique of one of those models. Here are the April winners of the “NextBillies,” our monthly awards for the most read and most shared posts. Congratulations to all!
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Full of Sound and Fury: But does America’s Medicaid debate signify anything for global health? Bi-weekly Checkup (5/10/13)
As BoP countries seek to improve health outcomes and increase access to care, there are a lot of questions about what’s the most workable approach. Unfortunately, in the U.S., a recent study on the effectiveness of public health insurance has produced a lot more heat than light. We take a look at the controversy, along with other posts you might have missed, in NextBillion Health Care’s Bi-Weekly Checkup.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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At Long Last: Is mental health poised to take its place on the global health agenda?
Mental illness is a taboo that extends across cultures - and that stigma is one reason it has traditionally been an afterthought in global health discussions. But there’s a growing sense that this may be changing. As mental health seems poised to emerge as a major priority on the global health agenda, we’ve assembled this series of video presentations and interviews with global mental health practitioners, researchers and advocates.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Mobile Money in Tanzania: Understanding consumers’ perspectives
After stagnating during the first two waves of our research, mobile money use among Tanzanian adults nearly doubled over the course of the study. Poor, rural women were consistently the least likely to use mobile money, while urban men above the poverty line were the most likely. However, we found that gender does not play as large a role in mobile money use as might be expected.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Reflections on the next wave of water innovation
Paul Polak believes that the solution to expensive and often dirty diesel powered water pumps in emerging market lies in fundamentally re-engineering the affordability of solar powered (solar photovoltaic) pumps. His new company, SunWater is developing a 2 kilowatt solar-powered pumping system that can do the same job as a 5 horse power diesel pump, coupled with drip irrigation and water storage solutions, to boost yields for small farmers.
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- Base of the Pyramid, solar
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One Step Closer to Ending Malaria: Public-private partnerships tap the potential of synthetic anti-malarial treatment
PATH and its partners in the public and private sector recently began producing a new synthetic version of artemisinin, the key ingredient in the gold-standard malaria treatment. This promises to bolster the existing botanical supply and meet approximately one-third of the global demand. According to PATH CEO Steve Davis, this milestone shows the strength of collaboration across the public and private sectors to advance science for the benefit of global health.
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- Health Care
