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Measure for Measure: Is the phrase ‘Base of the Pyramid’ off base?
Today we’re launching a new series of posts, Measure for Measure, which focuses on trends, tools and viewpoints in impact measurement. In the series launch, Acumen’s Head of Impact Tom Adams thinks we need a new way to measure poverty, beyond the "BoP" catch-all.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Social Innovation in Africa: When a Young Girl and Prime Minister Share a Vision to Fight Illiteracy
Fighting illiteracy and advancing social innovation in Africa are different sides of the same coin. Worldreader joins the two visions with a scalable approach.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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“If you teach a man to fish…”: The NSDC’s efforts to provide job training to 150 million Indians – part 2
We’ve all heard the proverb about how teaching a man to fish will feed him for a lifetime. But how can a country provide modern job skills to hundreds of millions? India’s National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) may have found a way. In part 2 of this Q&A, Dipra Mukhopadhyay, a member of the NSDC’s core investment team, discusses its efforts to train 150 million Indians, including the country’s poorest communities.
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- Education
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How to Train 150 Million: The National Skill Development Corporation’s ambitious plan to remake India’s workforce – part 1
The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is a unique public-private partnership in India. Its mission is to skill 150 million Indians by 2022, by catalyzing the creation of vocational training institutions through joint ventures with the private sector. In part 1 of this Q&A, Dipra Mukhopadhyay, a member of the NSDC’s core investment team, discusses the program’s challenges and potential.
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- Education
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NexThought Monday – Want to Help Africa’s SMEs? Improve Their Internet Access: A new report from Dalberg highlights the Web’s huge social and economic potential
As part of Dalberg’s Impact of the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Study, a recent survey by Dalberg Research shows just how important the Internet is to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa. African policymakers–already concerned with SMEs as an engine for growth and job creation–may do well to prioritize Internet access and use among SMEs.
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- Education, Technology, Telecommunications
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How AIDS Invented Global Health
Over the past half-century, historians have used episodes of epidemic disease to investigate scientific, social, and cultural change.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Life, Not Death, is Focus of New Health Metrics
This maverick researcher wants to replace conventional death statistics with data on how well we live.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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UN panel’s post-2015 goals: ‘Promising start’ or ‘lacking a roadmap’?
Just hours after the 27-member U.N. High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda unveiled its recommendations to replace the MDGs in New York, the thousands of stakeholders involved in the process began to analyze how the framework will affect international cooperation and the delivery of foreign aid until 2030.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, public health