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IMS Health and BroadReach Healthcare Announce Strategic Alliance in Africa
IMS Health and the Life Sciences division of BroadReach Healthcare today announced a strategic alliance to deliver comprehensive advisory and commercial effectiveness solutions for life sciences organizations operating in Africa. The alliance brings together IMS Health’s industry-leading information, analytics, consulting and technology capabilities with BroadReach Healthcare’s deep knowledge of the African healthcare landscape and local regulatory environment. Life sciences organizations will gain immediate access to information and services that support market assessment, market entry planning and commercial implementation across the continent.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why New iPhone Isn’t Really for Developing World
When news of this release first bubbled up, many people—from investors and analysts to customers and app developers—excitedly predicted that Apple could finally bring its high-quality devices to customers all over the world. It looked like good business for Apple and good news for millions, if not billions, of people.
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- Technology
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Productive Consumption: How high-end technology enables market-driven service delivery for the BoP
Historically, expansion of basic service access has been hindered by the costs and slow speed of expanding “the grid.” Yet there is no longer any need to move at the pace of grid expansion; technology to offer basic services safely and affordably, without relying on grid electricity, is here today. Interestingly, this opportunity to reach the poorest has been created by the insatiable demand in richer countries for what is in our pockets, handbags and briefcases.
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- Energy
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Acumen East Africa and Dow Announce Technical Assistance Recipients
Acumen is pleased to announce the first recipients of technical assistance support through its Technical Assistance (TA) Initiative, launched in partnership with The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW).
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A STRYDE Forward for Youth: Creating opportunities in rural East Africa
Africa will add 122 million people to its labor force between 2010 and 2020. The Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise (STRYDE) program, a partnership between TechnoServe and The MasterCard Foundation, provides training, mentoring and building self esteem for young workers entering a difficult economy.
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- Agriculture, Education
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$200,000 for BoP Health Care Innovators : A big opportunity for social enterprises
The USAID-funded Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project has announced the launch of the Health Enterprise Fund, a challenge fund designed to address the lack of available capital for health enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa. This support will include technical assistance and grant funding of up to $200,000. In this post, Colm Fay of the SHOPS project explains the fund and how to apply.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Reshaping the Future of Cocoa in Africa
Seventy percent of the world’s cocoa now comes from West Africa, where family-run farms have proliferated across the landscape in recent decades. Yet in a paradox, the spread of these nonnative cocoa trees often contributes to deforestation.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Italians, Israelis aim to fight hunger in Senegal
Trilateral agricultural development project seeks to eradicate hunger by providing farmers with technological know-how.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa