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Peer-to-Peer Learning: CHMI program will provide up to $8,000 to facilitate partnerships
The Center for Health Market Innovations is launching a peer-to-peer program, the CHMI Learning Exchange, designed to help organizations share knowledge around a particular need or business practice.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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In Uganda, Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships for Food Security
Failures in the Ugandan market deter farmers from adopting best practices for harvesting and handling, which in turn floods the market with low-quality crops for raw materials. Clinton Wong, a volunteer consultant for TechnoServe, helped lead an initiative to map the food sector in Uganda as part of the Solutions for African Food Enterprises (SAFE) program.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – The Real 4Ps of Inclusive Business: Perseverance, pilots, partnerships and passion
We started last September – looking across the entire portfolio of businesses supported by the Business Innovation Facility since 2010. The more we looked, the stronger the common themes appeared. Most companies ended up innovating more than they expected, and in more parts of the value chain.
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Microfinance, Macro Health Benefits: Partnerships can plug service delivery gaps on the way to universal care
Financial service providers are delivering significant aspects of health care in India, giving a glimpse of how some of the biggest challenges of universal health coverage might be addressed.
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Shaping a Market for Nutrient Economies – Part 2: The value of partnerships
As we’ve seen in Ashoka Changemakers’ Nutrients for All campaign, there are several markets involved in bringing nutrient products to consumers. Interventions in these different markets can have a major impact, starting at the earliest stages in a product’s development, and they often involve multiple partners. This post, the second in a two-part series, shows how these interventions work in practice.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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NexThought Monday: Philippine Life Insurers Find Runaway Success in MFI Partnerships
It’s taken 40 years of experimentation, but in the Philippines, a unique business model has found a way to sell life insurance hand over fist to poor people. The country’s "mutual benefit associations," a study released last month shows, have soared in popularity and now insure 7.5 million members.
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Being the Change…. and Making a Profit: Agora Partnerships is recruiting its largest class yet
Agora has worked with 18 companies over the past two years, some of which operate in the most destitute regions of the Western Hemisphere. Over 70 percent of Agora’s Accelerator class of 2011 received millions in investment, propelling impact companies to an average 80-percent growth rate. With this year’s recruitment effort, however, Agora is getting even more ambitious: expanding from its base in Central America, the organization is seeking out a total of 30 new companies from across all of Latin America.
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Unlikely Partnerships in the Social Sector
In the final part of my three-part interview with Ashoka’s Europe director Felix Oldenburg on how to create a large and sustained impact, he shared his thoughts on how to use existing, or some may call them "old" social structures -churches, welfare systems, and foundations, among others - to scale innovations.
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