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Soap Opera Could Be Unlikely Form of Birth Control in Uganda
Uganda has one of the highest birth rates in the world. It also has some of the most dedicated soap opera watchers anywhere in Africa. Now a group of enterprising Ugandans is aiming to tackle the former through the medium of the latter.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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It’s That Time Again – Here’s Your Official SOCAP19 Conference Preview
October is in full swing, and that means it’s time for SOCAP – the 12th annual gathering of investors, entrepreneurs and others helping to drive mission-focused business. It all happens next week, when SOCAP19 will host over 500 speakers and hold more than 150 breakout sessions at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco. Team NextBillion will be there too - here's what to expect.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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The Development Tool Nobody’s Using: Why it’s Time for the Women’s Empowerment Sector to Leverage Media and Advertising
In women’s economic empowerment circles, there’s no shortage of initiatives involving corporate partnerships with NGOs - often focused on agriculture or garment supply chains. But as Mara Bolis at Oxfam points out, this focus has led the sector to overlook other potential areas of impact – including media and advertising. Sharing some compelling examples, she argues that media could have as much – or even more – influence in shaping women’s economic opportunities as changes to global value chains.
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- Technology
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Press Release: New Design Challenge Empowers and Informs Responses to Global Water Crises
Designing Water's Future, will leverage the power of creative design and communications, citizen science, frontier data analysis, visualization tools, and Artificial Intelligence-powered analysis to advance responses and solutions.
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- WASH
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Cool But Confused: Social Entrepreneurs Find It Harder to Explain Their Work
A Thomson Reuters Foundation poll in 2016 found almost 60 percent of social enterprise experts in the 45 biggest economies said there was a lack of public awareness about their work which made it harder to raise funding and sell products and services.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Viewpoint: How To Successfully Scale Up While Keeping In Touch
For many social entrepreneurs, scaling their work to an international stage would fulfill a lifelong goal. Yet, in the process of scaling and operating a global social enterprise, it can be easy to lose sight of operations on the ground, with potentially disastrous consequences.
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- Finance
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The Power of Messaging: How WhatsApp is Becoming a Not-So-Secret Weapon Among Small Enterprises in Emerging Markets
Doing business in emerging markets requires significant and often remote communication – from managing inventory to keeping track of transactions and employees in the field. But though donor-funded digitization efforts often focus on building payments use cases, some of the most needed advancements are happening via existing communications channels like WhatsApp, says Strategic Impact Advisors VP Hamilton McNutt. He explores the innovative ways companies are using WhatsApp – and how messaging apps could better serve their needs.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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Viewpoint: Impact Investing Isn’t About Cash. It’s About Ecosystems
Impact investing starts before a dollar is invested, and I think it’s time for impact-focused organizations to adjust our language.
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- Investing
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