Financial accessibility and management

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Mercy Corps International - China

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Mercy Corps is a not-for-profit international humanitarian agency. Its goal is to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. Believing that communities must be the agents of their own transformation for change to endure, Mercy Corps...

Rural Action Alliance Programme (RAAP)

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The Rural Action Alliance Programme (RAAP) is an NGO that aims to tackle poverty in Ghana. RAAP undertakes community development projects aimed at assisting women's groups and their families with technical and financial support in order to improve their livelihoods. The organisation focuses on...

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Opportunities for the Majority: Bank initiative that promotes and finances private sector business models

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The Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) Initiative promotes and finances market-based, sustainable business models that engage private sector companies, local governments and communities in the development and delivery of quality products and services for the majority of the population of Latin...

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The Global Partnership Social Investment Fund seeks investments in Latin America

2012-01-28_1411

The NGO Global Partnerships is redefining microfinance and moving beyond the concept of microloans as working capital. It aims to achieve greater impact in reducing poverty by combining these loans with affordable social investments, such as health services, training and low-cost pensions and...

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CEMEX mobilizes public and private resources to pave streets in Mexico

2012-01-28_1403

CEMEX, a multinational cement company based in Mexico, has devised a plan to mobilise both public and private resources to pave streets in low-income neighbourhoods.

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Vision Banco partners with Habitat to provide low-income housing in Paraguay

2012-01-28_1413

Thousands of low income Paraguayans will be able to make home improvements with credits provided by a Vision Banco-Habitat partnership.

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Public-Private Partnership for Low - Cost Housing Investments

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Thousands of Salvadorans with no credit history can access loans now to make home improvements and expand their home businesses. El Salvador has developed a unique and sustainable financial business model that enables low-income consumers to improve and expand their homes by mobilizing...

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Business Models that Make a Difference

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This is a publication produced by IFC (the International Finance Corporation) arguing that inclusive business models are good for business.

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Scaling Up Inclusive Business: Advancing the Knowledge and Action Agenda

2012-01-21_1528

This is a report produced for the International Finance Corporation. It is based on 14 IFC client case studies and draws on other research undertaken by IFC and the CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School on inclusive business, including recent research supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates...

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A discussion paper on social intrapreneurship

2012-01-21_1529

This paper produced by the Doughty Centre at the Cranfield University examines the potential value of social intrapreneurship, and provisionally defines a social intrapreneur as "a person within a large corporation who takes direct initiative for innovation which addresses social or environmental...