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Healthcare Research Paper Published: Increasing Access to Malaria Meds Focus of Research
The first paper from a just-completed, multi-year extensive research project on how to increase the availability of subsidized medicines in remote areas has been published. The paper, “Trends in availability and prices of subsidized ACT over the first year of the AMFm: evidence from remote regions of Tanzania,” was published in Malaria Journal. It was written by WDI Director of Healthcare Research Prashant Yadav and others -including WDI Healthcare Research Associate Sarah Alphs and WDI Healthcare Research Assistant Pete Larson.
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More than Ceremony: In Rwanda, Reflections from the 10,000 Women Graduation
I’ve returned to spend the week overseeing the preparation for the graduation of the eighth cohort of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Entrepreneur Certificate program. On July 27 (a Friday), Jeannette Kagame, the First Lady of Rwanda would be attending our ceremony as 29 women are awarded their certificate. We are honored that she is able to attend, and eager for her to not only celebrate with us the completion of an extensive, nine-module, 31-day training program, but also to see what an amazing group comprise the 10,000 Women Rwanda graduates.
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Moving Beyond Access for Meaningful Financial Inclusion: Targeting investments to improve financial capability
Who are the relevant stakeholders to help bridge this financial capability gap? We are looking to explore these and related questions through 10 or more new research projects that we initiate at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) over the next two years, with support from the Citi Foundation.
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TechnoServe Launches Program to Boost Development of Central American and African Businesses
Some 560 SMEs will be able to develop their businesses through a new entrepreneurship development program, “Impulsa Tu Empresa (Boost Your Business), that TechnoServe plans to implement in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Burkina Faso in Africa. The program, supported by the Argidius Foundation, is designed to give mentoring and business training for entrepreneurs.
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Social enterprise should be made central to higher education strategy
When I went to university in the late 1970s, fewer than 20% of school leavers when on to higher education. Some degrees were clearly vocational (medicine perhaps the most obvious example), but most were not. My module on the Comparative Government of Indonesia and Nigeria has not, I'm afraid to say, been of direct relevance to me in the world of work.
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Can Better Data Sharing Help Solve Pakistan’s Education Emergency?: Developyst’s platform is for NGOs, policy makers and educators to make better decisions
Developyst is Pakistan’s first social enterprise in education with a vision to champion data-driven development. The Developyst platform, which will be launched in 2013, seeks to be a space for education stakeholders to grow and develop their network by providing access to data in interactive and visually diverse ways.
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- Education, Technology
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Weekly Roundup: SOCAP Discounts, Data Delivery, And Spontaneous Innovation
When summer begins to wane, SOCAP preparations begin to warm up. Yes, it’s hard to believe that Social Capital Markets, that magnetic north on the compass of many impact investors, is less than two months away. Plus, a fresh batch of BoP-related studies.
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- Education
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16 Stories:A New Book, ‘Llenando Espacios’ (Filling Spaces), Reveals Colombia’s Social Enterprise Prowess
As part of the forum “Social Entrepreneurship: A new look at the development of Colombia” last month at Bogota at the College of Higher Studies in Administration (CESA), Juan David Aristizabal presented his new book (written in Spanish) Filling Spaces: A Book about Social Entrepreneurs.
I had the chance to chat with him about his new book, which tells the storyies of 16 Colombian social entrepreneurs across multiple sectors.- Categories
- Education, Social Enterprise
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