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Medical Equipment Graveyards: Three Causes of the Problem – And How Blockchain Can Help
Medical equipment is essential for diagnosing and treating patients. Yet due to inefficiencies and a lack of coordination in donations, much of this equipment sits unused in low-income countries — a situation often referred to as equipment graveyards. According to global health consultant Vikas Meka, blockchain could provide a solution. In this post – the first in a series – he explores three common problems with the current medical equipment donation system, and how a blockchain-driven platform could help.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Cargill and Heifer launch Hatching Hope Global Initiative in India
Farmers will be connected to markets and equipped with the goods and services that they need to be successful participants in the poultry value chain.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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Adapt or Die: Accelerating Growth Amid a Rapidly Changing Energy Landscape
The clean cooking sector has made incredible strides in the past decade, with bilateral organizations and the development community working together to create standardized environmental impact goals. Now the industry is facing a new set of scaling challenges, say Jessica Alderman and Ron Bills of Envirofit International. The two share advice for enterprises seeking to level up, including how to avoid mission creep.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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Press release: OPIC Supports Two Projects to Expand Access to Safe Drinking Water
“Thanks to OPIC’s landmark investment in WaterEquity’s $50 million flagship fund, 4.6 people across India, Indonesia, Cambodia, and the Philippines will secure access to safe water or sanitation,” said Alix Lebec, Executive Vice President of Investor Relations, WaterEquity.
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Getting to the SDGs – And What’s Next for Multi-Sector Collaboration
We live in an era of multi-sector solutions. But it's easy to forget that diverse sectors working closely toward big global development goals is a recent phenomenon that didn’t happen by chance. At a talk at the William Davidson Institute, Tami Kesselman, founder of Aligned Investing Global, discussed several key tipping points that have allowed the business, government, philanthropic and impact investing communities to overcome misaligned priorities and mistrust. Check out her interview and her predictions on what will come next in multi-sector development.
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- Impact Assessment
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A microloan can help poor people in Bangladesh. What about New Jersey?
The Grameen Bank, one of the pioneers of microfinance, which has been operating its program in Bangladesh since the 1970s, released a study on one of its programs in New Jersey. The program works like this: Low-income women apply for a microloan as part of a small group, and all members of the group are accountable for ensuring each member makes payments.
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- Finance
- Region
- North America
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Ten big global challenges technology could solve
None is easy, but all are incredibly important.
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- Energy, Technology
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This investing app lets anyone with $50 invest in companies that make money by doing good
Swell is an impact investing platform that helps users invest in high-growth companies that produce — and derive revenue from — products or services that address the environmental and social challenges as outlined by the UN Sustainable Development goals.
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- Investing, Technology