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One Drop at a Time : A new book examines how CARE’s long-term efforts in the dairy value chain have benefited Bangladeshi farmers
CARE’s long-term work in the dairy sector in Bangladesh is considered one of the most intensely developed agricultural value chain initiatives in the world. Authors Kevin McKague and Muhamad Siddiquee discuss its business-centered successes in their new book, Making Markets More Inclusive: Lessons from CARE and the Future of Sustainability in Agricultural Value Chain Development.
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- Agriculture
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Press Release: Study Shows the Top Ten Global Health Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Issues
Ten years after the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness reported on the need for better coordination in the global fight against disease, global pharmaceutical supply chains remain fragmented and lack coordination, facing at least 10 fundamental challenges, according to a newly published paper by professors at NYU Wagner and MIT-Zaragoza.
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- Health Care
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This Antiseptic Was Brought to You By …: USAID guide mimics some market practices to speed ‘bench to bedside’
When it comes to global health, “people are good at inventing things but not always good at reaching scale,” according to David Milestone, senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact. That’s why USAID developed “IDEA to IMPACT: A Guide to Introduction and Scale of Global Health Innovations,” which officially debuted on Monday.
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- Environment, Health Care
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CHAI as a Disruptive Market Force (Part 2): Despite successes, challenges remain in getting health commodities to those who most need them
A focused market-shaping approach remains a relatively young and rapidly evolving dimension of global health, but CHAI and its partners have demonstrated that market shaping can be used to impact outcomes and achieve significant savings for governments and donors.
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CHAI as a Disruptive Market Force (Part 1): Ensuring access means more than getting the right drugs to the right people at the right time
By actively engaging stakeholders on the supply and demand sides of the market, The Clinton Health Access Initiative helps overcome access challenges and gets health care commodities to the people who need them the most, write CHAI leaders David Ripin and Danielle Kuczynski. But what does ‘market shaping’ do to help those most in need?
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Marketing the ‘Real Cool Honey’ Sachets: Launch lessons from Asali Poa in Kenya
Find a product-market fit and then execute flawlessly. Both are tough and have high risks that you need to overcome with the launch process. Here are a few big lessons from Honey Care Africa’s little sachet of honey, which we call Asali Poa (translated as "real cool honey"). We launched the product commercially in 2014 in Nairobi and currently reach 3,000 points of purchase.
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- Technology
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The Supply Chains of the Future: How Tau Investment Management is using strategic supply chain investment to transform the garment industry
Factory fires and collapses have killed almost 2,000 workers in Bangladesh’s garment industry in the past 10 years. Tau Investment Management is addressing these challenges by investing to create a better supply chain. Benjamin Skinner, Tau’s co-founder and senior vice president, discusses the approach in part five of our Impact Investing Insights video series.
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- Environment
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Tiered vs. Equitable Pricing: Why Access to Medicine Index 2014 takes societal needs, affordability into account
The lead researcher with the Access to Medicine Index, which ranks pharmaceutical companies’ efforts to improve access to medicine for priority diseases in developing countries, explains how and why the Index’s pricing methodology evolved from measuring tiered-pricing strategies to measure what the Index terms “equitable pricing strategies” instead.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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