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Weekly Roundup – 12/11/11 – The ’Tata Way’ Explained
The winter’s biggest national event for the UK’s youth social enterprise sector, the Tata Social Enterprise Conference, organized on behalf of the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), was a call for ideas and action. Kishor Chaukar, managing director of Tata Industries, had plenty of both.
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Guest Post: Harnessing Technology for Transformation
Technology is not just being used to organize the Twitter/Facebook fueled uprisings in the Arab world. It is empowering citizens to intervene in risk-laden social issues, while providing a platform to rapidly scale these interventions. It’s time for the social sector to firmly commit to increasing our investments in these kinds of innovations.
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Peddling Poor Products to the Poor: What’s Our Responsibility?
Non-communicable diseases like diabetes and heart disease are now the biggest worldwide killers, surpassing infectious diseases like HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. As large businesses like Nestl? deepen their engagement in low-income markets, increasing sales of both beneficial and deleterious products to the poor, what is our responsibility?
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Affordable Housing for All – In Our Lifetime
In order to fix broken affordable housing value chains, each player needed to move from a mindset where they were competing for a limited ?wallet share, to one in which multiple players ? each with different assets to make the wallet actually expand in size - came together in significant and increasing numbers to overcome major obstacles.
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Housing Series: Empowering an Urban Community After Disaster
Communities like Simon-Pel? present many challenges, all magnified by the 2010 earthquake. Habitat for Humanity Haiti used a community-based enumeration (survey) process aimed to help the community take stock of its resources, prioritize its needs and develop action plans. The surveys and focus groups are tools for building more than housing.
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1,300 Schools is a Good Start, but the True Learning Curve is Sustainable Livelihoods
The recent announcement of Aziz Premji Foundation (APF) to launch 1,300 schools across various districts in India is expected to improve the education scenario in many rural districts. Impressive as it is, focusing on access to education for children, instead of building sustainable incomes for their parents, may not be the bridge out of poverty.
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The G20 Challenge Applying Proven Business Models to the BoP
Last week, the doors swung wide for full applications to the G20 Challenge on Inclusive Business Innovation. The Challenge doesn’t offer prize money to winners - rather its value is in opening the doors of opportunity for BoP-focused enterprises with proven models.
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Building a Business Around Combating Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals
As more businesses enter the BoP, many will need to focus on reducing counterfeiter’s grip on the market. Sproxil is trying to limit that hold on the pharmaceutical market in emerging economies by literally putting the power in the hands of the end consumer through cell phones.
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