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  UN Meets Millennium Development Goal on Drinking Water

  The Millennium Development Goal for access to clean water has been reached, ahead of the target date of 2015.

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  Touring the New NextBillion: New Jobs, Events Calendar

  With the redesigned NB, we think we’ve made it easier to find, share and submit jobs; while keeping up with important dates on your social enterprise calendar. So let me take this opportunity to quickly walk you through these new features.
  

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  The Big Idea: (UPDATED) Simple Truths About Mobile Money

  Wow, the role of mobile money has been hotly discussed across the mainstream media in recent weeks - even in Slate. There is much that I agree with in that article, and in a related critique of technology-centered development by Kentaro Toyama in CNN. So let’s unpack some of the conclusions presented in these two articles. (UPDATED: The Slate authors respond to this post).

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  On World Day of Social Justice, the Role For Business

  Jake Walter is the country director of TechnoServe/Mozambique. Since 1998, he has led TechnoServe’s efforts to create a competitive and sustainable commercial agricultural sector that promotes opportunities for small-scale producers and creates jobs for the rural poor. Prior to joining TechnoServe, Jake was a vice president for ABS Global, a bovine genetics and technology company.On the World Day of Social Justice, Jake discusses how TechnoServe’s work in Mozambique contributes to a stronger society, and how business can be a means to promote social justice.

• News
  Benin Makes Headway in Attempt to Reduce Deaths from Malaria

  Last year Benin announced free treatment for malaria, and has now followed up by cracking down on fake drugs and recruiting an army of outreach health workers

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  From Our Partners: TechnoServe – the Year Ahead

  This is one in a series of articles featuring NextBillion’s 2012 Content Partners in which leaders offer their views on important trends impacting their work and new initiatives to alleviate poverty through market-based solutions. Today we hear from Simon Winter, TechnoServe’s senior vice president for development, who answers questions about TechnoServe’s direction in 2012.

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  Supranational and Cross-Sector Collaboration: The Best Idea of 2011

  Although many countries across Latin America are developing monitoring systems for populations living in extreme poverty using mobile technology, the voices of voices and solutions of these communities aren’t always heard. 2011 also saw the birth of collaborative acceleration

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  Exploring a Global ‘Local’ Approach to Impact Investment as a ProInspire Fellow

  After three great years as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, I decided to explore opportunities in impact investing. Last summer, I learned about the ProInspire Fellowship and discovered it would be a perfect way to increase my impact and develop as a socially-minded business leader.