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Press release: WaterAid and partners make the business case for investing in water, sanitation and hygiene
WaterAid’s new resource responds to the growing need for the evidence that improving water, sanitation and hygiene facilities should be more than a philanthropic measure or means to tick a corporate social responsibility box; it should be a core business priority.
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- Press release
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- WASH
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How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
Last year 920,000 children under the age of five died of pneumonia, making it the leading killer of people in that age group. This figure is falling (in 2011 it was 1.2m), but it still represents 16% of all infant deaths. Such deaths are not, however, evenly distributed. In Bangladesh pneumonia causes 28% of infant mortality.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Swiss impact investor BlueOrchard invests $4.7m in Satya MicroCapital
New Delhi-based microfinance company Satya MicroCapital Ltd has raised $4.7 million (Rs 34 crore) from Swiss impact investment manager BlueOrchard Finance Ltd for on-lending to the Indian micro, small, and medium business sector, with a focus on women entrepreneurs, said a statement on Monday.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: Is Cash Better for Poor People Than Conventional Foreign Aid?
U.S.A.I.D., the American foreign aid agency, is conducting a trial that measures the impact when poor people abroad are simply given money with which to decide what’s best for themselves.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nespresso Invests Big in Zimbabwe Coffee Amid Agricultural Reforms
Zimbabwe’s coffee sector has fluctuated wildly over the past 30 years in terms of production volumes, exports and producer income, primarily due to controversial land battles that caused nearly all of the white plantation owners of European and Australian lineage to flee.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Swiss impact investor BlueOrchard invests $4.7m in Satya MicroCapital
New Delhi-based microfinance company Satya MicroCapital Ltd has raised $4.7 million (Rs 34 crore) from Swiss impact investment manager BlueOrchard Finance Ltd for on-lending to the Indian micro, small, and medium business sector, with a focus on women entrepreneurs, said a statement on Monday.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- microfinance
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Oxfam appoints Sriskandarajah as chief executive
Oxfam GB has appointed Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah as its new chief executive, taking over from Mark Goldring “around the end of 2018”. Sriskandarajah is currently secretary general and chief executive of CIVICUS, the Johannesburg-based global alliance of civil society organisations and activists with members in more than 180 countries.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Arohan Financial to raise ₹ 3.5 billion, plans IPO in 12-15 months
Arohan Financial will use the funding from promoters Aavishkaar-Intellecap and others to strengthen its capital adequacy ratio to expand in the 10 low-income states it is currently present in, says MD Manoj Kumar Nambiar.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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