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Texting Toward a Better Business: What happened when women in three countries were offered bite-sized bits of business know-how via mobile phones
The Business Women mobile service, developed by the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, the ExxonMobil Foundation and Nokia, offered women bite-sized bits of business know-how via their mobile phones. Every week, thousands of women in Nigeria, Indonesia, and Tanzania received five or six business tips as part of a year-long curriculum.
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Triple Jeopardy: Report details the discrimination facing girls and women with leprosy
Report published today warns that the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals will fail in their aim to “leave no one behind” if discrimination against girls and women affected by leprosy is not tackled.
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- Education, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – My ‘big bet’ is equal economic opportunity for everyone
We can’t just give people tablets and access to education and expect to create change. We need to go one step further – to show them how to use these tools to supplement their incomes in the short term, argues Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Sama Group.
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Why India’s Economic Growth Depends on Vocational Training: LabourNet links skills to jobs
In 2013, Acumen invested in LabourNet, a company focused on improving livelihoods through work-integrated job training for informal sector workers in trades such as construction, manufacturing, leather and beauty. Keya Madhvani and Raphaela Sapire of Acumen detail how the company creates a measurable increase in the wages.
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- Education
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Teach a (Wo)Man to Fish … But What if it’s Against the Law?: The Women Thrive Conference explores how training women and improving their livelihoods can address gender inequality
When we pull women out of poverty, many positive things tend to happen. So why isn’t more being done to bring about economic empowerment for women, who represent six of every 10 people living in extreme poverty? What needs to change to make more happen? These were among the questions raised at the summit, which was held by Women Thrive earlier this month.
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Tunnel Lab: A Social Enterprise that Equips Impoverished Brazilian Youths With Technological and Entrepreneurial Knowledge
Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth most populous in the world, but it provides only a minor fraction of the technological innovation that drives economic growth in other countries. A new social enterprise called Tunnel Lab is trying to change this dynamic by introducing a love for technology in many of the country’s poorest favelas.
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From Classroom to the Real World: How young people in Africa can unlock limitless opportunities
Today more than half the population of sub-Saharan Africa is under the age of 25, and the World Bank predicts that as many as 11 million young people will join an expanding labor market every year for the next decade. Ashoka Changemakers’ John Converse Townsend looks at two social entrepreneurs fostering creative methods for turning around the unemployment crisis.
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- Education
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Good for health, good for business
Why would a global corporation reinvest 20 percent of its profits from developing countries back into training health workers? It’s simple. Health workers are the driver of health systems.
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- Education, Health Care
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