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How social entrepreneurs are inspiring change across Africa
Leadership programmes are facilitating social enterprise projects that could be a viable alternative to aid
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Obama in SOTU: Eradicate extreme poverty in 20 years
In a Feb. 12 speech focused on improving the lot of the U.S. middle class, Obama also vowed to help stabilize countries such as Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Mali, and help to spread democracy from the Middle East to South-East Asia.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Measuring Socio-Economic Impact : Tackling some tough questions
When interacting with members and partners of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), several questions about how to tackle the challenge of measuring socio-economic impact often come up.
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- Impact Assessment
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Pakistan’s social entrepreneurs eager to unlock innovation potential
The social enterprise landscape in Pakistan is nascent but fast-growing. From diverse sectors ranging from dairy farms to educational hubs to micro drip irrigation, early-stage enterprises have the potential of achieving hybrid financial return and social impact. Crucially, they are attracting interest from impact investors and business angels alike.
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- Impact Assessment
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Pushing Back on ‘Scalable’: Reconsidering the buzz word for a successful social enterprise
If a social business improves people’s lives by helping them overcome the poverty line by fulfilling their needs, I can’t believe scalability is the key for its success. I believe its purpose should be and is to become self-sufficient, with fair wages for employees within the law. How can this not be considered a success?
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- Impact Assessment
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Where are the poor? : Lessons to share from BRAC’s poverty ‘graduation program’
In the countries that have some incarnation of the “graduation program” targeting the ultra-poor that BRAC began first experimenting with in the 1990s, communities themselves are also grappling with the question: Where are the poor? It’s a question that large scale aid agencies, impact investors, social enterprises, multinational companies and others ask on a regular basis. So, we thought those stakeholders and others would benefit from learning a bit more about our process.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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A Changemaker’s Secret: The Role of Self-permission in Changemaking
I recently attended an event in Toronto hosted by Ashoka Canada, convening a community of people who are changing systems and frameworks by partnering with businesses, schools and communities. While there, I met Peter Mortifee, a retired physician and founder of Somerset Foundation. His journey reflects the most fundamental step in becoming a changemaker: giving ourselves permission.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Special Series (Part 2): BPO for the BoP – The need for (and promise of) Impact Sourcing
In part one of this series, we defined Impact Sourcing and some of the factors accelerating its growth. Now, let’s look a little deeper into the two key trends driving interest in the space and whether these can be married through Impact Sourcing in a manner that drives benefit for both the BPO industry, as well as poor and vulnerable communities in emerging economies.
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- Agriculture, Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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