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Where are the poor? : Lessons to share from BRAC’s poverty ‘graduation program’
In the countries that have some incarnation of the “graduation program” targeting the ultra-poor that BRAC began first experimenting with in the 1990s, communities themselves are also grappling with the question: Where are the poor? It’s a question that large scale aid agencies, impact investors, social enterprises, multinational companies and others ask on a regular basis. So, we thought those stakeholders and others would benefit from learning a bit more about our process.
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Special Series (Part 3): BPO for the BoP : The trials and successes of an early-stage Impact Sourcing Service Provider in Africa
Impact Sourcing Service Providers (ISSPs) constitute a critical component of the emerging Impact Sourcing space. ISSPs are business process outsourcing (BPO) organizations with the specific social objective, often outlined in their mission, to hire workers from poor and vulnerable communities to perform BPO work. ISSPs are emerging in rural areas as reaction to rising costs in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities in developing countries.
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Special Series (Part 2): BPO for the BoP – The need for (and promise of) Impact Sourcing
In part one of this series, we defined Impact Sourcing and some of the factors accelerating its growth. Now, let’s look a little deeper into the two key trends driving interest in the space and whether these can be married through Impact Sourcing in a manner that drives benefit for both the BPO industry, as well as poor and vulnerable communities in emerging economies.
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- Agriculture, Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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Special Series (Part 1): BPO for the BoP – defining Impact Sourcing and its potential to boost employment opportunity
Impact Sourcing, also known as socially responsible outsourcing, is an exciting and emerging space within the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector. Through work performed by the William Davidson Institute and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, this series explores the challenges and potential for impact sourcing to alleviate poverty for millions of people in a sustainable manner through job creation and employment.
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The Latest Way to Solve Poverty in the Middle East
In the last two years, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has increasingly focused on supporting social entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa region as a way of tackling the region’s socio-economic challenges that cause poverty.
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- North Africa & Near East
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- employment
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Egypt: Impact Investing Is Key to Inclusive Development in Egypt
Demographic pressures and years of under investment in meeting social needs suggest that Egypt will not be able to provide jobs, housing and basic services without adopting a wide strategy for inclusive development. Impact investing should be encouraged as one of the strategy's pillars.
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- North Africa & Near East
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Capturing the Gains: Improving the lives of workers and producers through global value chains
The importance of global value chains to the lives of millions of poor people cannot be ignored. Over US$2 trillion sales in manufacturing and services are now conducted through global value chains - much more if agrofood is included. Lead firms coordinate their value chains, linking activities from production, through distribution and logistics to retail. They provide jobs and incomes for many millions of workers and small-scale producers.
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- Uncategorized
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- employment, supply chains
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Justrojgar Joins With Upaya Social Ventures to Create Service Sector Jobs for the Very Poorest
Equity Investment Will Create New Corporate, Domestic Employment Opportunities For Those Living At The Base Of The Pyramid
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- South Asia
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