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Microfinance as a tool for empowering conflict-affected communities
At a recently-held seminar organised by the Pathfinder Foundation in Colombo, a paper and three presentations were publicised under the theme ‘microfinance as a tool for empowering conflict-affected communities’.
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- Education
- Region
- South Asia
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Loans facilitate skill development training in India
Skill development training, which costs anywhere between Rs 20, 000 and Rs 50,000 for a typical engineering student, now comes along with loans which can be converted into easy monthly installments (EMIs).
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Contemplating Scarcity: Grameen Foundation’s Alex Counts on how the phenomenon of scarcity impacts microfinance and poverty alleviation
Alex Counts, president and CEO of Grameen Foundation, discusses new research on the phenomenon of scarcity – how having too little of anything important to the human experience can impact policy and practice in microfinance and poverty alleviation.
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- Education
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So You Want to Work in the Impact Business Space … But Aren’t Sure How to Go About It: Start by asking yourself these three questions
"How do I prepare myself to enter an industry that I don’t know so much about? Who do I talk to? What should I research? Where do I find jobs? Who are they looking for?" Over the course of the last 7 years, edge has been working towards bringing together the right talent to social enterprises. In that time we’ve collected a couple of tips that you are likely to find useful.
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- Education
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Heifer International Receives $25.5m Grant to Expand Its East Africa Dairy Development Program
Heifer International received a $25.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project and assist more than 136,000 farm families in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Corporate social responsibility and India Inc: IT leads, finance lags
Reporting on corporate social responsibility has been undertaken by almost three quarters (73 percent) of large Indian companies, led by the IT sector, shows a new survey by KPMG.
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- Education
- Region
- South Asia
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Public health leaders promote new framework for development
Countries should consider expanding investments through organizations that are already engaged in global dialogue and investment approaches.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance
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Child marriage seen as a girl’s health issue
The development community is starting to pay closer attention to the problem of child marriages.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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