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Philips and SNV collaborate to increase access to clean, efficient cooking solutions for communities in Africa
Royal Philips and the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (http://www.snvworld.org), will be working together to improve access to clean cooking solutions in Africa by introducing clean and efficient household cook stoves to rural communities across the continent. The partnership aims to improve the health and well-being and income of rural populations while having a direct positive impact on the environment and will include research, community education and access to financing for adopting clean cooking technologies.
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5 ways to deliver nutrition through cash crop standards
Nutrition security is an essential part of improving farmer livelihoods.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Reflecting Our Energy for Impact: How can we strengthen the contributions of incubators and accelerators?
James Koch, a co-founder of the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) at Santa Clara University, examines how to strengthen incubators and accelerators, an integral part of enterprise development. Based more than a decade of developing enterprises through the GSBI, Koch offers four suggestions.
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NexThought Monday – MNCs, the Grassroots and the Future of the BoP
Santa Clara State University’s Jim Koch says two big conferences in the last ten years have come to frame BoP market development efforts. What can we learn from what did – and what notably did not – transpire in the decade between the two gatherings? Among other things, Koch says major corporations have been greatly eclipsed by grassroots innovators.
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- Education
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Empowering People With Cooking Stoves
Imagine spending 30 percent of your income on cooking fuel, inhaling the equivalent of 20 cigarettes daily while preparing meals for your family, and having to send your daughter to collect fuel for hours every day. What sounds like a far-fetched scenario is the reality of millions of people around the world in countries like Nepal, Darfur and Haiti.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care, Technology
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Sankalp Forum announces 24 Indian social enterprises as Sankalp Awards Finalists for 2014
Finalists looking for nearly INR 200 Crores in impact investments over the next two years. Also competing for Sankalp People’s Choice Awards to be decided by the global online community.
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- Energy
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Cleaner cookstoves can boost health and slow global warming
World Bank report calls for action to cut common pollutants such as soot, which could save millions of lives every year
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- Technology
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Finding the Right Temperature for Public/Private Partnerships: An Interview With the Head of Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Radha Muthiah, executive director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, has about 100 million reasons for looking toward innovative ways to partner and collaborate with social enterprises, development agencies and NGOs. I caught up with her at the BoP Summit last month to talk about new modes of thinking around public-private partnerships.
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- Energy