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Unlocking Empowerment for Poor Customers: Three Tips for Financial Services Providers
We expect financial services to bring several things to the lives of poor people: more options on how to manage their circumstances and opportunities, a sense of confidence and control over their future - a sense of empowerment, in other words. Here are three ways that financial institutions can nurture empowerment among low-income customers through their actions and offerings.
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Lessons Learned Building Locally-Sourced Wheelchairs
JJD Innovations is empowering local tradesmen like welders to build wheelchairs that are customized to the end-user, while also creating a sustainable supply. The firm had to reiterate the engineering multiple times based on the availability of local materials, and reiterate again when the material was available but the building skills were hard to find.
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10 Global Health Trends from 2015 and What They Mean for the New Year
It's not too early in 2016 to see a few emerging themes: a transition toward local ownership of health priorities, financing and implementation; a growing need to understand and target specific segments of populations; and a shift in focus to several emerging areas of opportunity which are new to the global health agenda.
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HIV Self Test in 15 Minutes: BioSure’s kit is based on the precedent set by home pregnancy exams
The longer the HIV virus goes untreated, the fewer the chances of successful care. BioSure's HIV self-testing kit yields results in 15 minutes, giving people more control of their health. It's already been introduced in Europe, and BioSure is hoping to test it soon in emerging and developing markets, where HIV transmission poses a significant health challenge.
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Serving the 57 Percent: That’s the percentage of American adults who are struggling financially – CFSI research illuminates their needs
At first, the headline number may seem hard to believe: 57 percent of American adults are struggling financially. But that's what the Center for Financial Services Innovation found in its recent Consumer Financial Health Study. We spoke with Aliza Gutman, the CFSI director who has led the study, about the challenges facing this group - and the opportunities in serving them.
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The ketchup sachet-shaped drug saving babies from HIV
Inside a foil sachet, which looks more at home in a fast-food restaurant, an exact dose of antiretroviral medicine is helping to protect newborn babies against the threat of infection from their HIV-positive mothers.
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Industry Emerging from the Rubble in Haiti: How building skills locally through community networks can create sustainable businesses
Throughout the street markets in Port-au-Prince, a growing corps of entrepreneurs – mostly women – is helping the fuel-efficient stove market take root, showing how empowered local businesses, even in the poorest and most difficult-to-navigate environments, can create sustainable enterprises that employ and train local workers.
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The shipping containers tackling South Africa’s chronic childcare shortages
A social enterprise operating out of repurposed shipping containers is helping to tackle Cape Town’s lack of childcare facilities.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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