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What’s the Matter with WASH?: Why Struggling Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Businesses Need More than Just Investment
Despite limitless demand, most water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) businesses – particularly those serving the poorest customers – are struggling to find a market and attract investors. Annie Hall at Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor shares insights from a new report that explores where WASH businesses are going wrong – and how investors and development sector players can help.
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The Development Bank of Rwanda Spearheads Economic Inclusion Among Refugees
The Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD) has secured $9 million (over Rwf8.5 billion) from the World Bank to finance entrepreneurial projects initiated by refugees in Rwanda.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AVPA Launches Africa Social Investment Landscape Mapping Study Report
Insights into the current state of the social investment landscape and key trends that will influence the increased flow of capital into social investments in Africa
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Taking Control of the Value for Money Narrative: How Innovative Metrics Are Making Impact Part of the Financial Equation
The nonprofit VisionSpring—which provides affordable, high-quality eyeglasses to base of the pyramid customers—realized it needed a metric that could balance cost and impact, while keeping its target customers at the center of decision-making. Analysts at CASE and SoJo discuss the value of the “programmatic value for money metric” VisionSpring implemented, and explore how this type of metric can help organizations consider trade-offs between cost and impact.
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- Entrepreneurship, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Viewpoint: The Race Against Economic Inequality Within Emerging Markets – a Case for SMEs
One of the great challenges of the 21st Century is the need to reduce poverty levels and economic inequality globally. Economic growth is the most powerful tool for reducing poverty and improving the quality of life in developing countries.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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How Tech Investors in Africa Coped With the Changes Enforced by COVID-19
Last week’s virtual Africa Tech Summit Connects event brought together a host of African tech investors to discuss trends, challenges and opportunities in the wake of COVID-19, and all agreed that the way they do business has been altered by the pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Villgro Africa Pioneering Social Entrepreneurship in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Villgro Africa, an impact investor that inspires, nurtures, and scales innovation by offering customized technical assistance and investments to early stage social entrepreneurs in Africa today celebrated its 5th anniversary as they go beyond their boundaries to serve the rest of Africa.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley Could Be an Epicenter of Innovation in Latin America
Salvador (Bahia’s capital) is the natural birthplace of Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley, which largely centers around a local ecosystem hub, Vale do Dendê.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- Latin America
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