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First step taken in upgrading Myanmar’s Reproductive Health Supply Chain System
Myanmar is one step closer to ensuring that women and families throughout the country receive high quality reproductive health services and products thanks to a UNFPA, and in partnership with John Snow Inc. and the Ministry of Health, backed standardized national logistics supply chain system which was announced on Thursday (08 May 2014) in Nay Pyi Taw, the nation’s capital. A total of 26 professionals attended a 7 day intensive training session on how to implement as well as operate the upcoming system.
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- Education, Health Care
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Weekly Roundup – 5/10/14: Every investment is an “impact investment”
Every investment has a social/environmental impact on some level - a fact that more and more investors are taking into account. We discuss Stanford University’s decision to divest its $18.7 billion endowment of stock in coal-mining companies, and a recent J.P. Morgan/GIIN survey of top impact investors, in this roundup.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Nigeria, From Pure Growth to Harnessed Opportunity: A new report on the 3D role of business in the unfolding transformation
It is easy to pretend that there are two separate Nigerias: one a thrusting consumer powerhouse, and one socially divided and pocked by violence and poverty. For business, which relies on the success of the former, acknowledging the latter can be difficult, but they are two sides of the same coin. This week we are in Abuja to launch a new report by Business Action for Africa and the Initiative for Global Development: “The New Africa – Nigeria: From Growth to Opportunity”.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Selling Circumcision for HIV Prevention at the Epicenter of the Global Epidemic
When Zimbabwe's most famous poet and musician, Albert Nyathi, decided to get circumcised, everyone had an opinion.
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- Education, Health Care
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The 10 (Mostly Still-to-be Invented) Jobs That Can Power Africa’s Future: From ‘nutrient banker’ to ‘rat trainer’ – these jobs might help employ the next generation
Where will Africa’s next generation of jobs come from? One source will be social entrepreneurs who are creating new opportunities as they transform their chosen fields. Ashoka’s Simon Stumpf presents his list of future jobs (some still uninvented) that could employ young people in Africa over the course of the next decade.
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- Education
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Making banking more secure, convenient through verification number
The World Bank Group’s newly launched Global Financial Development Report 2014 on Financial Inclusion estimated that half the world’s adults, approximately 2.5 billion individuals, do not have an account with a formal financial institution.
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- Education
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In Pakistan, ‘The insurance game will change in the next three years’
An interview with Mohammed Asif, Commissioner Insurance Mohammed Asif Arif Commissioner (Insurance)
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- Education
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Impact Investors Still Chasing A Too-Small Pool Of Companies
Interest in impact investing continues to increase, even as investors report a shortage of promising opportunities.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, research
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