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Your Chance to Shape a Sector
Impact investing isn’t for the faint of heart, and forging the way forward on the next chapter of understanding and accelerating impact in our space is for the bravest of the brave. Yet we know that better answers are out there; we know that there is increased appetite to dig deeper and to find real lessons about what is and isn’t working and why.I’m hiring someone who wants to lead this charge.
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Guest Post: Understanding Company Impacts on Development With a Few Useful Examples
How useful are impact assessment approaches? And how should a company decide what approach to use? The answer of course depends on why the company wants to assess impact. To help in understanding the options, the Business Innovation Facility has produced a two-page summary of approaches to assessing impact, with the strengths and weaknesses of each.
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- Impact Assessment
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Turning Poop into Profits: Waste Enterprisers Drive to Turn Waste Outputs into Fuel Inputs
If Ashley Murray has something to say about it, the economics of poop are in for a shake-up. “85 percent of human waste generated on the planet is dumped directly into the environment without any treatment at all,” she said. Murray, founder and CEO of Waste Enterprisers and a Fellow at this year’s Unreasonable Institute, believes that waste can be transformed into fuel.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Bridging the Gap: Unlocking Business Opportunities in Developing Countries
Local farmers or small companies lack the organization, knowledge, capital or incentives to provide these products. These factors are red flags for larger private-sector businesses looking to develop new sources of supply. What’s needed in these sectors is coordination at multiple points along the supply chain to help the market function properly.
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- Agriculture
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Youth Savings: Finding the Right Financial Tools at the Right Age
With a third of the global population today under the age of 19 and 90 percent of these young people living in developing countries — 45 percent living on less than $2 a day — there is an urgent need to create easy and efficient savings mechanisms for the young. On Thursday (July 26), the Global Assets Project will host the event: Youth and Their Money: New Insights on the Financial Lives of Youth in Developing Countries
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- Education
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The Art of ‘Nice,’ Putting ‘Care’ In African Healthcare
What’s the secret to attracting 300 patients a month to a brand new, three-room health clinic in a sprawling industrial area? It might be the free manicure/pedicure women receiver after paying for a full “head-to-toe” checkup, but more likely, it’s the value of Penda. In Swahili, Penda means love, and that’s the key to Penda Health Clinics, a new chain of low-cost health facilities in Kenya that puts “care” at the center of their business model.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Welcoming Our New Content Partner: Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps’ status as both a relief organization responding on the ground to urgent post-disaster and post-conflict situations, and an organization developing long-term, market-driven strategies to develop economies, gives it an interesting perspective on the past, present and future of global development. That’s why I’m very happy to welcome the organization as a NextBillion Content Partner.
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- Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday: Angolan Robusta – Getting the Best Coffee in the World to Market
I was 100 percent sure after tasting Angolan coffee that it could overtake Brazil and Colombia, and fill all of our cafes, grocery stores and kitchen counters with its amazing lush aroma and spectacular taste. But, in interviewing cooperatives, manufacturers and buyers, I came across several caveats that hinder the Angolan coffee industry and its farmers, and thus, our access to this marvelous product.
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- Agriculture
