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North Africa: Japan’s Unicharm Corp. to Bring Affordable Hygiene Products to 36 Million Low-Income Women
New York/Tokyo — Japanese consumer products giant Unicharm Corp. has pledged to bring affordable diapers and sanitary products to 36 million low-income women in the Middle East/North Africa and Asian regions as part of the Business Call to Action (BCTA), a global initiative to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development through the development of inclusive business models.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- North Africa & Near East
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Sanergy is Breathing ‘Fresh Life’ into the Sanitation Loop
Sanergy is a Kenya-based company that builds low-cost sanitation in urban slums, benefits local entrepreneurs, and processes waste into electricity and fertilizer. Since its launch in 2011, it has sold more than 100 toilets, and is looking to expand in a partnership with Kiva.
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- Health Care, Technology
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A Missing Opportunity for Investment: Bringing the Bedroom to the Boardroom
During SOCAP 2012, impact investing funds and social impact bonds were among mechanisms for bringing access to family planning to scale. But the first step is simply naming family planning as an impact investing priority. This requires moving the issue from the margins to the center of social causes.
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- Health Care
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GlaxoSmithKline opens door on data in bid to aid discovery of medicines
British drugs company releases findings of clinical trials and announces new effort to find tropical disease cures
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- research
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The VisionSpring Model: Creating Markets And Players Instead Of Empty CSR
Earlier this month, the Schwab Foundation announced its 2012 “class” of outstanding social entrepreneurs. Among them was Dr. Jordan Kassalow, the founder of an organization called VisionSpring that works to ensure that everyone in the developing world has access to eyeglasses.
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- Health Care
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From Lab to Clinic to Patient: The second practitioners’ workshop on Bringing Medicines to Low-income Markets explores the pipelines to access
The “Bringing Medicines to Low-Income Markets” workshop, set for Oct.18-19 in Berlin, is a great way to take the first step toward an inclusive business model in the pharmaceutical market, to expand current efforts, or find a suitable partner.
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- Health Care
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How to boost adoption of mobile health care, by report
MORE doctors in developed and emerging markets have identified adoption of mobile technology in healthcare as an inevitable means to boost health care services.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why is it So Difficult to Align Strategy for Social Impact?: Columbia Business School’s 2012 Social Enterprise Conference is Tackling the Question
Columbia Business School’s 2012 Social Enterprise Conference is asking how we can re-frame a rather narrow definition of strategy, and build collaboration within and across sectors to tackle major social and environmental issues.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment