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The Weekly Roundup (2/2/13) : Formal, informal and ‘Unreasonable’
This week’s roundup looks at tactics for building a BoP customer base, the new Informal City Dialogues project and the 2013 cohort of social entrepreneurs hoping to attend the Unreasonable Institute.
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Asia’s Rising Economic Tide Doesn’t Lift All Boats: Multiple strategies for inclusive business investment from the ADB Forum
At the conclusion of a two-year scoping study of how to optimize financial support for inclusive businesses in the Asia Pacific, the Asian Development Bank convened the first Regional Forum for Investing in Inclusive Business in Asia last November, at its headquarters in Manila. The event brought together regional company executives, social impact investors, and development agencies to discuss how all of these actors can better support private sector engagement in inclusive development through targeted investment.
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And the Most Influential Post of 2012 is … Drumroll Please
Some 731 of you cast ballots the Most Influential Post on NextBillion in 2012. Thank you for participating! … And now, here are the results.
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Doing Good Business for Better Health: The view from drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline on expanding access
Allan Pamba, director of Public Engagement & Access Initiatives for the Developing Countries Unit of GlaxoSmithKline, talks about what GSK is doing to meet the health care needs of BoP countries without compromising its commercial success.
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Community + Entrepreneurship: How community can strengthen the impact movement – Watch the replay of the Google Hangout
Meet three of today’s daring impact entrepreneurs in a Google Hangout broadcasting live here at Nextbillion.net from 1-2 p.m. today (Jan. 30). This Hangout, entitled “Community + Entrepreneurship,” will explore a variety of themes around the importance of community to impact entrepreneurs across Latin America.
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Where are the poor? : Lessons to share from BRAC’s poverty ‘graduation program’
In the countries that have some incarnation of the “graduation program” targeting the ultra-poor that BRAC began first experimenting with in the 1990s, communities themselves are also grappling with the question: Where are the poor? It’s a question that large scale aid agencies, impact investors, social enterprises, multinational companies and others ask on a regular basis. So, we thought those stakeholders and others would benefit from learning a bit more about our process.
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Microfinance CEOs: Smart Campaign Certification is a Clear Step Toward Responsible Microfinance
As co-chairs of the Microfinance CEO Working Group, we are pleased to share with NextBillion readers this joint statement from the Working Group in support of the recently announced Smart Campaign Client Protection Certification Program. Certification will offer public recognition for institutions that meet adequate standards of care in appropriately protecting microfinance clients, as verified by an independent evaluation. It marks a clear step forward in ensuring the microfinance industry puts the treatment of its clients first.
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$200,000 for BoP Health Care Innovators : A big opportunity for social enterprises
The USAID-funded Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project has announced the launch of the Health Enterprise Fund, a challenge fund designed to address the lack of available capital for health enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa. This support will include technical assistance and grant funding of up to $200,000. In this post, Colm Fay of the SHOPS project explains the fund and how to apply.
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