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This class helps developing-world solutions reach people in need
The innovations emerging from Stanford University’s Design for Extreme Affordability course are both viable business models and sensitive to local needs.
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- Education, Technology
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Measuring Up: USAID Proposes New Indicators to Assess Countries’ “Journey to Self-Reliance”
“The ultimate goal of foreign assistance must be to work toward the day when foreign assistance is no longer necessary, and we must measure our work by how far every investment moves us closer to that day,” said Fine, who is Acting Assistant to the Administrator of USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning.
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- Impact Assessment
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Press release: Village Enterprise Promotes Campaign to End Poverty in Times Square
"Village Enterprise provides rural Africans living in extreme poverty with the tools and resources they need to start sustainable businesses and savings groups," said Village Enterprise CEO Dianne Calvi. "With the profits and savings from their businesses, entrepreneurs can send their children to school, feed their families more nutritious food, and break cycles of poverty that can span generations."
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Making Agritech Work for Smallholders: What Tech Companies Can Learn from Development Organizations
Agritech proponents argue that technology is the key to helping the world's 500 million smallholder farmers. Yet despite countless ‘ICT for development’ companies and projects, these solutions often fall short of their intended impacts. This raises an important question: Can the methodologies that have proven successful for many tech startups work for the complex, interrelated challenges faced by smallholders? Wouter Vink of GreenFingers argues that there's a better approach.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Press release: VisionFund Cambodia Sold To Woori Bank of Korea
In line with VisionFund International’s strategy, it will redeploy the funds to other microfinance institutions across its network that are at earlier stages of development, in markets less wellserved by microfinance providers and where VisionFund, as an early entrant offering microfinance services can impact more vulnerable families, living in rural communities with limited ability to access financial services.
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- Asia Pacific
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How one engineer made it his business to help refugees become entrepreneurs
Usman Iftikhar turned his struggle to land a full-time engineering job into a startup accelerator that helps refugees and migrants realise their entrepreneurial ambitions – and received a Royal seal of approval for his efforts.
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- Uncategorized
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Are Impact Bonds and Outcome Funds a Solution to the Global Learning Crisis?
A related and relatively new phenomenon, Outcome Funds for Education, may further help address issues of fragmentation and inequities in funding.
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- Education
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PWYF launches Aid Transparency Index 2018
The Asian Development Bank tops the Index for the first time, with UNDP ranking second and the UK Department for International Development coming third.
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