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Debunking the Myths behind Food Fortification: A multi-strategy approach to creating a “Nutrients for All” world
Over 2 billion people today suffer from some form of micronutrient malnutrition – a leading cause of several life-threatening human development consequences. While there are multiple interventions that help prevent micronutrient deficiencies, food fortification is universally recognized as one of the most cost-effective. This post explores some of the misconceptions around the practice.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Outsourcing for Good: The current state of Impact Sourcing and how we can accelerate it
ImpactHub.org is the first website to list Impact Sourcing market players (service providers, countries, and advocates) in one place, and our directories are growing. Historically, industries in the BPO sphere have relied upon online marketplaces to locate service providers and third-party information resources, such as blogs, to help purchasers react to changing landscapes and verify the credibility of these market players.
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- Technology
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Connected: Unleashing Ugandan Farmers’ Potential Through Mobile Phones
A powerful, new mobile platform designed for smallholder farmers that combines agriculture information and financial services to help them harvest bigger profits is going live in Uganda. Modeled on the cloud-based AgriLife, the new platform will be accessible via mobile phone and provide data collection and analysis about farmers’ production capability and history, while providing much-needed services to distant, rural farmers.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Big Problems – Big Solutions: One Million CHWs and Living Goods at the Global Health & Innovation Conference
From last weekend’s Global Health & Innovation Conference: Sonia Ehrlich Sachs discusses the One Million Community Health Workers (CHW) Campaign, which aims to rapidly initiate and scale up rural CHW programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Also featured: a video of Mike Pezone discussing the Living Goods model - dubbed "the Avon Ladies of Africa."
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- Health Care
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- public health
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The IT Revolution in Health Care: Jeffrey Sachs’ keynote at the Global Health & Innovation Conference
In our first post on the 2013 Global Health & Innovation Conference, we highlight Jeffrey Sachs’ keynote speech on how information technology is transforming health care. Also included: a must-see video of Leana Wen’s conference session on how to use narrative to enhance diagnosis and transform policy.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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NexThought Monday – Want to Scale Impact? Be Wary of Hard and Fast Conclusions: We know a lot, but there is much more to learn
Just because financial goals are good for long-term sustainability does not mean the converse holds i.e. that prioritizing social goals will undermine impact. The conclusion that I have most difficultly with is that “those who prioritized financial goals over social goals were much more likely to experience high rates of growth and have greater social impact.” It is a pretty bullish ‘and.’ The whole question hinges on one’s definition of impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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- scale
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Bi-Weekly Checkup (4/11/13): A Tale of Two Students – or, what I wish I would’ve done in college
When Jennifer Staple-Clark was a sophomore in college, she spent her free time establishing an innovative non-profit called Unite for Sight. The organization has become a world-renowned NGO, facilitating over 63,000 sight-restoring surgeries. It also organizes the annual Global Health & Innovation Conference, which takes place this weekend - and which NextBillion Health Care will cover as a media partner.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
