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This Startup Wants to Get Cameroon Talking About Sex
“Many people in Africa lack access to basic information regarding sexual health because of the taboo that surrounds the topic.” That’s according to Cameroonian entrepreneur Adamou Nchange Kouotou, founder of Africa Health Initiative – the creator of Kalanda app.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How We Can Support Bottom-Of-The-Pyramid Entrepreneurs, Like Trash Sifters
Across the developing world, enterprising people are sifting through garbage bins to build small businesses through recycling. It is in the informal economy, yet they have developed an economic system. This “waste economy” is providing new opportunities for people like Vusi Memela.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Second-Generation Graduation: New Ways to Scale a Proven Anti-Poverty Model
This post, the first in a series by Fundación Capital exploring the Graduation strategy as a way to pull people out of extreme poverty, looks at how the concept is evolving. With more governments investing in Graduation, and more technological tools being applied, Tatiana Rincon suggests that "we stand at the edge of change that could lead to a world without poverty."
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- Education
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The Mismatch: Customers Seek Holistic Solutions, Financial Service Providers Operate in Silos
Digital financial service providers too often operate in silos, designing products to solve particular financial needs. Meanwhile, users tend to blend a mix of formal and informal financial services to meet their needs. The challenge for FSPs is to recognize users' behaviors and respond accordingly, particularly to their need for flexibility and timeliness.
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‘Her Hands Trembled’ When She Borrowed Her First $64; Now She’s Giving Advice to BRAC
BRAC, which has been gradually integrating mobile money into its microfinance operations since 2011, has introduced a number of new initiatives, including investing heavily in client protection, customer service and financial education, and developing mobile money use cases. Here, as part of FI2020 Week's spotlight on keeping clients first in a digital world, a long-time client gives her perspective on this evolution.
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Weekly Roundup: $5 Beats Free, SunFunder Rises, and Asia’s Investors Love Impact
Why it's not crazy for a global health organization to refuse free vaccines, where the world's most socially conscious investors live, which major funder might be planning to alter some old investment restrictions, and what's needed to support the Sustainable Development Goals. That and more; it's all here in our Weekly Roundup.
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Making Microfinance More Effective
For the 2.5 billion people who live on less than $2 per day, shocks such as illness, crop failures, livestock deaths, farming-equipment breakdowns and even wedding or funeral expenses can be enough to tip them, their families, or even an entire community below the poverty line. A major challenge for international development efforts is determining which financial tools provide durable buffers against such setbacks.
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Neeri’s stove reduces smoke, promises better rural health
With the World Health Organisation identifying indoor pollution being significantly responsible for the declining rural health and high mortality rate in India, National Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) has developed "Neerdhur," a novel multi-fuel domestic cooking stove.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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