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May 9, 2013 - 3:44pm
from BRAC Blog
This week, The New York Times published an article, “Africa Holds Worst Rates for First-Day Baby Deaths, Report Says.” ...
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May 9, 2013 - 11:15am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Cervical cancer vaccines for the developing world will cost $4.50 a dose, says the Gavi Alliance. That is $13.50 per young woman, because each needs three shots. It is a small price to pay for preventing
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May 7, 2013 - 6:36pm
from BRAC Blog
This is Moyna. Living in Dhaka’s Kunipara slum, her community health promoter microfranchise covers around 200 households. She sells basic health services as well as a range of products at affordable prices for her neighbors.
The BRAC Birthing Kit, for example, she purchases wholesale from a BRAC social enterprise at 42 cents ...
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April 18, 2013 - 1:00pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It's time to confront our continent's least endearing trait: conflict. This recurring phenomenon is perpetuating poverty and preventing the fulfilment of Africa's potential as a whole. In recent months, relapses into conflict in the Central African Republic, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have ...
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April 16, 2013 - 3:46pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Dan Norell, Senior Technical Advisor, World Vision
Financial services and enterprise development practitioners often exist in their own separate silos—yet very poor producers need both increased access to markets and financial services in order to increase resilience and economic well-being. Financial inclusion advocates are missing the boat if they ...
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April 3, 2013 - 5:17pm
from BRAC Blog
Not long ago, Bangladesh had one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. In rural Bangladesh, an expectant mother’s chance of survival was grim, with 500 to 600 women for every 100,000 live births in the ...
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April 2, 2013 - 12:30pm
from BRAC Blog
Everyone, from Save the Children, Plan International, and UNICEF, to BRAC, agrees that the early years are critical to a child’s overall development. How best to invest in those early years is a fertile topic for ...
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April 1, 2013 - 1:21pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
Leading Open GovernmentAfter meeting with heads of state from Cape Verde, Malawi, Senegal and Sierra Leone, President Obama signifiedthat each government is looking to move towards joining the Open Government Partnership. This would mean some extra work for ...
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March 18, 2013 - 6:30am
from AidData: The First Tranche
Open Data Changing the World This week the Harvard Business Review argued that “we need open data to change the world,” encouraging organizations to adopt a default position “to share all the data you can.” This principle is reflected in the
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March 14, 2013 - 8:20pm
from Innovations for Poverty Action Blog
Katie Parry
All eyes were on Kenya in recent weeks during the run up to the election. The tension was of course understandable; this was the first election since more than 1,000 people were killed in the violence that broke out after Raila Odinga questioned the legitimacy of the 2007 election results. There were considerable efforts both inside and outside of Kenya to ensure that this election was free, fair and peaceful. Part of this has been the instigation of high-tech ...
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March 6, 2013 - 10:17am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
India's rush for industrialisation may be stymied by a lack of power for its factories, but, barely noticed, solar electricity is being taken to thousands of villages in one of the most ambitious grassroots projects ever attempted.Five years ago an estimated 400 million people lived with rudimentary, low-quality kerosene lamps, ...
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March 1, 2013 - 7:51pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Ronnel W. Domingo, Business Inquirer
A NON-PROFIT organization based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is in talks with possible private-sector ...
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February 26, 2013 - 3:33pm
from MicroCapital
Qatar-based Silatech, a social enterprise that seeks to promote youth entrepreneurship and employment in the Arab world, and the American Refugee Committee (ARC), a US-based nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance in Haiti, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, are partnering with Kaah Express, a US-based for-profit money transfer company, to introduce a new microfinance program in Somalia. With training and technical assistance from Silatech and ARC, Kaah will provide microloans, ...
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February 22, 2013 - 10:30am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Whatever his motives, David Cameron's plan to switch money assigned to the foreign aid budget to defence peacekeeping operations must be applauded.Ever since the bloody fiasco of the invasion of Iraq, ministers, Whitehall officials and defence chiefs ...
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February 20, 2013 - 9:10pm
from BRAC Blog
(link to opening presentation on Prezi)
“People are poor because they are powerless,” says BRAC Founder and Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. But power isn’t necessarily a zero-sum game. It takes work, but you can create it, because power comes from relationships and you can give people a safe space (or as some say a platform) to create and strengthen real ...
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February 4, 2013 - 8:39pm
from BRAC Blog
Gathering and organizing data is one thing; using data effectively is another.
Thanks to new technology, as Bill Gates writes in his 2013 annual letter, people can gather and organize data with more speed and accuracy than ever before. That’s great ...
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January 30, 2013 - 4:15pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
While the developing world's emerging middle class has more than doubled in size over the past decade – the number of people classified as near poor has also been on the rise, new ...
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January 25, 2013 - 10:25pm
from Kiva.org
After an intensive 5-day training course here at Kiva HQ, our 20th class of Kiva Fellows is heading out into the field!Altogether, 26 Fellows are traveling to our partner organizations in 31 countries on 5 continents around the world. On top of that, 12 Fellows from the previous classes are heading to new assignments to keep Kiva running smoothly.For the next 4 months, they'll work closely with our partners ...
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January 23, 2013 - 3:28am
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the US-based World Bank Group, and the private-sector office of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), a multilateral mechanism established by the G20 group of 20 large economies, have announced that each of the organizations will invest USD 5 million in Root Capital, a US-based nonprofit social investment fund. The aim is to increase market and capital access for 300,000 small-scale farmers in ...
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January 22, 2013 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The eastern Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are home to one of the largest peacekeeping forces in the world. The UN's Mission de l'Organisation de Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (Monusco), now 20,000 strong, has been in the area for more than a decade, yet is often
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