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Lighting Up Bihar, An Update on Husk Power
I just got back from a three day trip to Bihar, India where I was visiting Acumen Fund Global Fellow, Neha Kale, as part of my work on leadership at Acumen Fund. Neha is currently working for Husk Power System (HPS), an Acumen Fund investment that uses rice husks to electrify rural villages in India. Husk has set up 84 plants so far serving nearly 200,000 people.
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- Energy
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The FOUND Middle Series: Root Change
Guillermo Rivero, managing partner with Root Change, a capacity development provider that works in Africa, Asia and Latin America, discusses the importance of technical assistance to help businesses succeed. He also stresses the need to bring in outside input and ideas to help an organization evolve.
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- Investing
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Welcoming NextBillion’s Content Partners
Each of these organizations are recognized leaders in their arenas, from enterprise development to financial inclusion and education, from micro and small business lending to patient capital partnerships. While they may have differing missions, they all contribute financial support, expertise, and mind share - and usually combinations of all three - to the cause of poverty alleviation through enterprise.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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From Our Partners: TechnoServe – the Year Ahead
This is one in a series of articles featuring NextBillion’s 2012 Content Partners in which leaders offer their views on important trends impacting their work and new initiatives to alleviate poverty through market-based solutions. Today we hear from Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s senior vice president for development, who answers questions about TechnoServe’s direction in 2012.
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- Agriculture, Education
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Supranational and Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Best Idea of 2011
Although many countries across Latin America are developing monitoring systems for populations living in extreme poverty using mobile technology, the voices of voices and solutions of these communities aren’t always heard. 2011 also saw the birth of collaborative acceleration
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Exploring a Global ‘Local’ Approach to Impact Investment as a ProInspire Fellow
After three great years as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, I decided to explore opportunities in impact investing. Last summer, I learned about the ProInspire Fellowship and discovered it would be a perfect way to increase my impact and develop as a socially-minded business leader.
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- Education
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- impact investing
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Case Study: SC Johnson and Community Cleaning Services, Sustainable Sanitation in Kenya
In recent years, we have witnessed heightened interest in “reinventing the toilet," or the development of new affordable toilet technologies for low-income urban populations. But often new technology and infrastructure is employed without planning for how to maintain sanitation. As the General Manager of Kenyan social micro franchise Community Cleaning Services (CCS), this case study explores our model.
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- Health Care
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NexThought Monday: Land Rights for Women – a Ripple Effect
Many developing countries, from Liberia to India, are rife with women without land rights, who upon the death of their husbands are thrown off of their land and left with no way to support themselves or their children. National economies continue to suffer from the effects of these children, who are robbed of an education and a future. From 2002 through 2009, Landesa partnered with the Rwandan government to help ensure Rwandans would have secure rights to land and receive land titles.
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- Agriculture
