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Meet MicroMentor, a Free ‘Dating’ Site for Business Mentorship
A business networking site might seem like an odd duck in the portfolio of its owner, Mercy Corps, an international NGO. But MicroMentor provides an affordable solution, especially for microentrepreneurs from low-income backgrounds. It’s already served more than 10,000 entrepreneurs.
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- Technology
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Out of the Shadows?: New research calls for more engagement with informal health care sector
There’s a growing awareness of the importance of informal medical providers in BoP communities. But health care advocates and policy makers are often reluctant to acknowledge and legitimize them. Underlying this reluctance is a lack of data about the informal sector’s size, utilization and quality. Rose Reis of CHMI talks with May Sudhinaraset, lead author of a recent study that summarizes research on this often-overlooked sector around the world.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Why We Need to Leverage Behavioral Design Early and Often
Base of the Pyramid customers, like any other consumers, are driven by behavioral economics. A recent study provide suggestions for incorporating insights from behavioral economics into the design of development programs and BoP-focused ventures.
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- Uncategorized
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Bi-Weekly Checkup – 3/1/13: What you may have missed and what we’re working on at NB Health Care
We’re launching a new regular feature at NextBillion Health Care – the Bi-Weekly Checkup. (Sorry for the obligatory medical pun – hey, it’s a health care blog…)
The Checkup has three main functions:
To highlight recent posts and news items that you might have missed, to explore new ideas, organizations and trends in global health and health-related social enterprise and to let you know about upcoming content on NBHC.- Categories
- Agriculture, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health
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Extreme By Design: Film tracks the world’s biggest little ideas
“Extreme By Design,” a documentary produced and co-directed by Ralph King, was screened at Mercy Corps’ global headquarters in Portland for a public audience in early February. The film follows the journey of a group of students who design and build products to solve seemingly intractable problems of the world’s poor.
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- Technology
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- product design
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Stories from the Field: Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes discusses polio, vaccines and family planning in Nigeria and Kenya
Late last year, Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes traveled to Nigeria and Kenya with his wife and a team of colleagues. Raikes discusses his experiences in the field, reporting on progress in the fight to end polio and increase access to family planning, challenges in the cold storage of vaccines, and perspectives from residents of Nairobi’s slums on topics like child health, contraception and HIV.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Made to Measure? Understanding Investor Challenges with Social Impact Measurement: Two new publications explore the upsides and downsides of metrics platforms
Never before have impact investors had so many social measurement approaches and tools at their fingertips to evaluate the effectiveness of their investments. Yet investors are keenly aware of their limitations and challenges. Purpose Capital conducted a interviewed more than 20 Canadian impact investors to better understand how they use metrics.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
