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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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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
- Region
- 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
- Tags
- 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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WHO guidance ‘risks killing children’
Rapid fluid resuscitation of children in shock can cause death, a major trial showed in 2011, but the World Health Organisation has yet to update its advice to doctors, say scientists, warning thousands could be harmed
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Doctors Without Borders Pioneers Opening Up Access to Humanitarian Data
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is pioneering an open-access approach within the humanitarian sector in the hope that other medical aid organisations will follow suit.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa