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Impact Measurement Mastery: 5 Lessons Learned Working With Colombian Entrepreneurs
New Ventures, which supports environmentally-focused SMEs in six emerging markets, recently hosted its first impact measurement workshop for social entrepreneurs in Bogota, Colombia. Entrepreneurs learned to measure and report impact, and New Ventures improved how to frame the value of impact measurement. Check out the five lessons of the workshop.
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- Impact Assessment
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Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation: An Innovators’ Call to Action
Are you or someone you know an innovator who is doing developing technological solutions to pressing problems in developing countries? If you know someone who is building a better life for people in need, then they might be the next $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation winner for the 2012 competition.
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Updated: The Ugly Truth About Famines
The drought, which spurred the UN to declare a famine for the first time since 1984, has affected the entire Horn of Africa, including much of Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. And yet the only areas where the UN has officially declared a "famine" are two pockets of southern Somalia controlled by the al-Shabab militia.
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- Education, Health Care
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Serving the Trillion Dollar BoP Energy Market
Not everyone wants to spend their weekend in a conference room discussing challenges like benchmarking low-cost solar home lighting systems, finding the right business model, and raising the seed capital. But for the 11 social entrepreneurs gathered with experts and the CSTS Clean Energy Sector team, there’s no place else we would have rather been.
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- Energy, Environment
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For Nuru, Energy Applies to Products and Microfranchises
Nuru Energy uses a multi-tier approach to developing and selling renewable energy devices, while steadily building a network of entrepreneurs. In September, Nuru will open offices in Uganda and Kenya, and plans to close the year with 170 microfranchises in Rwanda alone. The growth plans do not stop there.
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Friday Roundup ? 8/12/11: ROI on Rainwater
"Imagine if your family had to spend a month’s income just on clean water?" That’s what many of Guatemala’s poorest families face, as tap water isn’t drinkable and bottled water isn’t affordable. RainSaucers recently conducted a field trial in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala to find out if families would invest in rain collecting devices to save money.
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Impact Across the Developing World: TechnoServe’s 2010 Annual Report
In 2010, TechnoServe assisted 2,770 businesses across more than 30 developing countries. These businesses employed 40,300 people and bought products from 270,800 small-scale producers. Behind each of these numbers is a story of change.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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Mumbai Forum Addresses Challenges to Scaling Up Clean Energy Access in India
Given the large potential market for clean energy services, what’s preventing the industry from taking off and reaching the people that need it most? New Ventures India and CDF-IFMR recently convened a forum with industry stakeholders including investors, renewable energy CEOs and regulators to address scaling clean energy products with the BoP.
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- supply chains
