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Recap from ANDE Metrics from the Ground Up Conference
The future of metrics is unfolding at ANDE. As an attendee of their third metrics conference, I can say it has been fascinating to observe how the metrics conversation has changed and the progress that has been made. Read on for a recap of some of these exciting developments and a look towards new work that is underway.
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Walking in the Customers’ Shoes: Next Generation of BoP Marketing
eyond traditional research, ethnography implores us to get our hands dirty with first-hand observation and daily participation in the lives of our consumers. And while often thought to be the terrain of anthropologists studying far-off cultures, ethnography is increasingly taking center stage in seemingly unlikely places.
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Agora’s Impact Investor Conference: Accelerating the Central American Deal Flow
Agora Partnerships is taking investment-readiness preparation to a new level. In July, they will host the first Impact Investor Conference in Granada, featuring nine early stage enterprises that went through a competitive selection process to reach the Agora Accelerator Program.
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- Social Enterprise
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Telenor’s Easypaisa Penetrating Pakistan’s Poor, Unbanked Populations
Since Pakistan mobile operator Telenor launched Easypaisa in October 2009, it’s seen rapid adoption. In March 2011, 1.3 million customers processed 1.9 million Easypaisa transactions and $39.2 million in transaction flows. Easypaisa has conducted more transactions in its first 18 months than any mobile money deployment except M-PESA.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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Examining Poverty Footprints and Partnerships
In March, Oxfam America in partnership with the Coca-Cola Company and SABMiller released a report on their shared poverty footprint and value chain analysis work. This new report highlights the impacts Coca-Cola and SABMiller are making on poverty within El Salvador and Zambia, and also reveals opportunities for improvement.
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NexThought Monday: Cola Life’s Journey to Social Business
Simon and Jane Berry, founders of Cola Life, formed an "unlikely alliance," with Coca-Cola, brewing and bottling giant SABMiller, UNICEF and the Ministry of Health in Zambia. Together, they will try to tap into Coca Cola’s distribution chain in Zambia to deliver affordable treatments for childhood diseases to rural communities.
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Friday Roundup – 6/17/11: Building the BoP House
How big is the market for BoP housing? Well, HansonWade puts the figure at $381 billion a year by 4 billion low-income customers. Unlocking and serving that market by creating business models to scale up affordable housing finance, is the goal behind BOP Housing Finance conference.
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Cultural, Economic Shifts Lift Entrepreneurship in MENA
Theodore Khattouf, president and CEO of AMIDEAST, said the Middle East and North Africa region will need to create 90 million new jobs over the next decade to absorb the number of people seeking work. The keynote speaker at the Global Summit on Educating Entrepreneurs hosted by the William Davidson Institute framed the potential and the challenges.
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- Education
