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Avon, Amway … Africa?: Can the direct sales agent model work for health goods at the BoP? Part 1
It’s not easy marketing health products to the BoP. Challenges range from remote distribution to customers’ limited awareness of the products’ benefits or correct usage. That’s why some companies are recruiting local sales teams to sell health products directly to their communities. But how can the Avon/Amway model work for low-margin goods at the BoP? The SHOPS Project analyzed five business models in Africa over 16 months. In Part 1 of this Q&A, lead researcher Michael Kubzansky describes its findings.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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What healthcare leaders can do to nurture innovation
The five top tips to harness potential and give staff a licence to suggest changes
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- Education, Health Care
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Goizueta MBAs Help Fix the Bolivian Recycling Business
On Aug. 3, seven MBA students from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School will travel to Bolivia as part of a project designed to put their skills to work solving a waste problem in the nation’s capital in Santa Cruz. The students will help determine the feasibility of building a more efficient recycling plant and creating jobs in the process.
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- Latin America
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Impact Investment and Beyond: Mapping support for social enterprises
There is a lot of excitement about social enterprise, and a lot of interest in understanding, financing and supporting these enterprises. But there has been no comprehensive data on the actual amount of capital investment and non-financial support given to social enterprises and the development of their market infrastructure. ODI undertook a study to establish existing data gaps and to see if it was both feasible and useful to compile this data. Emily Darko of ODI describes their findings.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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Engaging the Diaspora Communities for Development: Calvert Foundation aims to join retail investing for good with diaspora populations
This week, we are excited to explore values-based investing with a new demographic: diaspora communities. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recently awarded Calvert Foundation a grant to conduct a feasibility study for the diaspora initiative, with the goal of launching a pilot for a specific diaspora community at the conclusion of the study.
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Enlisting Quacks in the Battle Against TB: An alarming study from Lepra highlights the need to train and regulate informal providers
Tuberculosis is second only to HIV/AIDS as the world’s deadliest infectious disease - and improper treatment can increase its drug resistance. But alarming research from the international charity Lepra suggests that proper treatment is rare among the informal providers common at the BoP. Lepra spoke with NextBillion Health Care about the need to enlist these providers in the fight against TB.
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Innovating to improve the health of women and children: T-HOPE researches innovative delivery models in maternal and child health
Every year, almost 300,000 mothers and 7.6 million children under the age of five die from largely preventable causes - the vast majority at the BoP. The Toronto Health Organization Performance Evaluation, in collaboration with CHMI, researched innovative solutions to maternal and child health care, presenting them at the recent Private Sector in Health symposium in Sydney, Australia.
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- Education, Health Care
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The 2013 Microfinance Barometer: Who will serve the next billion clients?
2.5 billion people lack access to financial services globally. The 2013 Microfinance Barometer contrasts this need with an overview of the institutions currently serving the sector. Based on data from 1,400 institutions reaching 94 million clients, the report shows a diverse, established microfinance sector - and points to the need for more models to bring financial services to the next billion clients.
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- Education
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