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Market solutions to Cambodia’s toilet troubles
PHNOM PENH, 5 June 2014 (IRIN) - Having money in your pocket does not translate into a toilet in your home, so Cambodian sanitation campaigners are trying new ways to encourage latrine construction in a country where years of awareness and subsidy campaigns have not been flush with success.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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IAN launches new incubator for social start-ups
The programme will be conducted in association with GIZ GmbH and the SIDBI
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- Impact Assessment
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OPINION: Exploring the Millennium Villages Project: has it improved lives in Africa?
Two leading global philanthropists, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Bill Gates, debate the impact and progress of the Millennium Villages Project, which aims to improve lives in 20 African countries over the course of 10 years.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Somaly Mam: The Holy Saint (and Sinner) of Sex Trafficking
Nestled on the banks of the Mekong River, Thloc Chhroy looks like the typical rural Cambodian village. Mango trees thick with fruit are everywhere.
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- Impact Assessment
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Pay For Success: Can Social Impact Bonds Provide the Fabled “Win-Win-Win”?
Goldman Sachs recently made headlines by investing in a Massachusetts nonprofit that tries to keep young men out of jail. The investment was part of the largest social impact bond or "pay-for-success" effort to date in the U.S. Rick Edwards of Third Sector Capital Partners discusses the benefits and risks of the approach in part two of our Impact Investing Insights series.
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- Impact Assessment
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Merck’s Expansion Plans in Africa And its Continental Outlook
Dr Karl-Ludwig Kley, Merck CEO and Chairman of Executive board is a man who believes in Africa and says Merck is in the continent to stay. Read on as he talks to Africa Science News
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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OPIC Committed $2.7 billion to High-Impact Sectors in 2013
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is proud to release for the first time a detailed picture of its Fiscal Year 2013 commitments in the impact investing space.
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- Impact Assessment
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Teaching People Not Just to Fish, But to Build Businesses Too
As USAID’s annual letter this year notes, in development it is no longer enough to teach a farmer to grow a new crop—or in this case, to fish. Our work isn’t done until we help a farmer learn to run a successful business too. This is precisely what is happening in Bangladesh.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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